Word: ufford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...besides these rookies, who will be with the team for two more years, Barnaby also had a fine group of yearlings who will form the nucleus of next year's squad. Ufford, who has played numer one for the past two years, and Art French and Dave Watts will all return in 1953. French played three this year, while Watts alternated at four and five...
...Yale slaughter, Barnaby feels, was due to two things: great team spirit and great material. Crimson teams in the past have usually had plenty of fight but not enough to make up for their lack of ability. Witness last year's Yale match, when, with number one man Charlie Ufford sick with mumps, the team still came within a match point of upsetting the Blue, and finally bowed only...
...sophomores especially came along faster than Barnaby expected. Johnny Rauh, who almost beat Captain Ufford in a test match earlier this spring, played second singles and third doubles most of the time, and lost only three matches in both positions. His doubles partner, Don Bossart, did even better playing sixth singles; Bossart lost only one doubles and one singles match all year, both to tennis-loaded Princeton. Barnaby now knows how swimming coach Hal Ulen feels about always being bridesmaid to the best team in the East...
Seniors Gerry Murphy and Bill Goodman, both three-time letter winners after this season, also helped the squad. Goodman for the second straight year teamed with a team captain at first doubles, this time helping to steady Ufford...
Both the entries in the final doubles match were combinations which the Crimson's first doubles team of Ufford and Goodman had defeated in earlier dual matches this season. Ed Wesley and Dave Mesker of Amherst won the title for the second straight year while Al Schwartz and Hank Blodget of Yale came in second...