Pastures New: Bob Callahan Retires From Princeton Squash After a Revolutionary Career
By James Zug
It was never supposed to work out like this. In the summer of 1981, Princeton’s athletic director asked Bob Callahan, newly-married IBM salesman, to be on a search committee to find a...
2012-2013 College Squash Season Recap
By Anne Bello
Certain names appear again and again in the College Squash Association’s championship history. By the time the 2012-2013 season was in the books, both the Harvard women and the Trinity men had recorded their...
Will’s World Collaborative Calls
By Will Carlin
On a cold, crisp Thursday evening thirty-one years ago, numerous vans started arriving at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. A light snowfall muffled the town, but most of the vehicles were filled...
Celebrating Dartmouth Squash
This September in Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth celebrated the 75th anniversary of the founding of its men’s squash team and the 40th anniversary of the founding of the women’s team.
More than a hundred Big Green former...
Harrity Makes it a Triple
By James Zug
Preston Quick directed the 28th annual Butcher/Ball/Ketcham National Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championships in Philadelphia during the U.S. Open’s first weekend in October. The Racquet Club of Philadelphia again hosted, with Germantown Cricket...
College Preview
By Anne Bello
Photos by Michael Bello
Throughout its history, college squash has lived in cycles. After all, only five men's schools (Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Navy, and Trinity) and five women's schools (Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Penn,...
He Whiffed: The Original Streak, the Cardiac Kid, The Palindromic String and Cool as...
By James Zug
1989
We had lost to Harvard in the regular season in 1989, 6-3 in Cambridge. A week later we beat them in the semis of the first nationals team tournament at Yale....
2011-12 Doubles Season a Wrap
The 2011-12 Doubles season kicked off with over 30 men’s and women’s teams, representing 15 schools, competing in the Intercollegiate Doubles Championship, held at the Racquet Club of Philadelphia, in conjunction with the 2011...
Publishers Note Athletic Excellence
By Jay D. Prince
In the United States, sports is a tremendous part of our culture. From the time we could walk, we have been playing games, informally at first but, for many, it didn’t...
From US Squash A Concerned Parent
By Kevin Klipstein
Whether or not you agree with him in policy or governance, you have to agree that Barack Obama knows sports. Interviewed recently on the BS Report (Bill Simmons is an ESPN columnist,...