Freshman Squash Players Ready to Move to Varsity

Two years ago the freshman squash team lost only one individual match, and last year's squad, while not so overpowering, still eked out an undefeated season.

With this tradition to live up to, this year's record of 9-3 might be seen as disappointing. Nevertheless, coach Corey Wynn thinks that this season has produced more players of varsity caliber than there are places to fill.

There will be only two vacancies on next year's varsity. Wynn feels that his top three men. Glen Whitman, Archie Gwathmey and Jim Evarts, will all be strong contenders. Even Bem Pierce, who played number four, cannot be discounted as a varsity candidate.

The perennial problem for the vast majority of squash players at Harvard is that there is no place for them to go after their freshman year. Coach Wynn considers the development of players for House squash one of his primary functions.

At the beginning of this season he carried a squad of 40 players, most of whom had no contact with squash before coming to Harvard. By the end of the season three or four of these novices have worked their way into the team's top ten; but rarely do such players have any hope of going on to the varsity.

This year's team lost to Episcopal Seminary and to Andover twice, while remaining undefeated against college opponents. Since boarding schools often have three or four year programs, their players are more experienced and much further along in their development. Usually about half of Harvard's freshman team are boarding school products. Wynn said that there were fewer this year than usual.

As solace to the faithful, the freshmen convincingly defeated Princeton, 6-3, and trounced Yale, 8-1.