Word: backhanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore Bernie Adelsberg, at number two for the Crimson, has been playing on and off all year. But he will have to be on to beat Ham Magill, a steady player who probably has the best ground strokers in the Ivy League. Magill, a skinny player with a devastating backhand, was playing number one for Princeton this Spring until last week...
Kileff and Friedman, a lefty with a two-handed backhand, are two of the steadier players on the team. Both rely on, consistent ground strokes from the backcourt and retrieving to beat more aggressive opponents...
Bobby Bauer pushed Harvard ahead on a backhand shot, after a pass from Chip Otness. Two minutes later, at 19:28, Johnson plopped a rebound past goalie Jim McCann, and it was 5-3 after two periods...
...second. With the score tied 13-13 in the third, he mused loudly, "What shall I do?", then uncorked a smashing serve for an ace and went on to win. In the last game, Vic caught his weary opponent leaning the wrong way with two successive backhand drop shots, ran out the match 15-13. "Beautiful game, Victor," conceded Howe, as both exhausted players sagged against the wall. Up in the gallery, Niederhoffer's mother, onetime ladies' paddle-tennis champion at Brooklyn's Brighton Beach Bath Club, squealed with delight...
...bottom two matches. Harvard sophomore Gordon Black plays Jim Brown and Peter Brooks faces Yale's ambidextrous E.K. Carmody, the fellow who had rather hit with the left than hit with a backhand. Brooks, along with Captain Dinny Adams, will be completing his third year as a varsity letterman...