Correcting An Error On US Squash’s “Digital Drive” January 14th Edition by Rob Dinerman Dateline January 14, 2021
--- The sixth section of today’s edition of US Squash’s Digital Drive
discusses the 1990 Potter Cup final between Yale and Harvard and states
that the final, won by Yale, "signified the end of the hardball era in
college squash." Just to set the record straight, the men's official
dual-meet season and season-ending Potter Cup tournament to determine
the national team championship were played with the hardball for FOUR
MORE YEARS after 1990 (i.e. through the 1993-94 season). Harvard made
it to all four finals, winning three of them, the only exception
occurring in 1993 when Princeton edged the Crimson 5-4. The college
women continued to play their official season with the hardball for
three more years after 1990, switching to the softball beginning with
the 1993-94 season. Just as one of the Yale players (Garrett Frank)
saved triple-team-match-point as part of Yale's win over Harvard in the
1990 Potter Cup final, Harvard's Tal Ben-Shahar did the same in the
last and deciding match of Harvard's 5-4 win over Yale in the 1994 dual
meet on a snowy night in New Haven in the last dual meet in this long
rivalry that was played with the hardball, a full four years after the
1990 Potter Cup final.
