Tennis Front Line Strong With Likas, Roche, Catton And Kraft
Second man on the USF ladder is sophomore Conway Catton who is a pre-med student. He has been playing tennis for the last ten years and has no ambition to turn professional. Completing the ladder are Harry Roche, Don Dowenbein is fifth on the USF ladder and intends making a career of tennis. Of the remaining two, neither George Kraft nor Bill Green have ambitions for a tennis career (USFFoghorn).
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Sweeping all Bay Area competition of the courts in team play, this year's tennis squad was the most successful to date of all athletic components representing the Hilltop. The Don netmen boast an outstanding record: in defeating six college outfits they won forty-nine out of fifty sets ... truly a remarkable feat.
Top man on the team is Harry Likas, seeded fifteenth among college players throughout the country, and a veteran of tournament play all over the nation. Last winter he competed in the annual Sugar Bowl tournament in New Orleans. Seeded right behind Likas is smooth Harry Roche, another veteran of court competition for many years. Conway Catton, George Kraft, Dave Brown and Jim Anderson round out the team, all of them top flight players.
Besides the N.C.T.A. Tournament at Berkeley, the Ojai Invitational, and the N.C.A.A. at Los Angeles, the racqueteers played almost every other college team in California (TheDon).
Coach George Kraft faced the 1951 season with expectations of another top-ranking tennis team, Gone were the greats of former years, but on hand were two outstanding senior netmen, Wally Vickery and Frank Marchi. Ready to lead the present aggregation to some of the glory of the National Championship squads of the past, the roster included some of the leading collegiate names in Bay Ares tennis: Sect Petersen, Stanley Smith, Keith Carver, Julius Debrow. Junior Davis Cup Squad member Jerry DeWitts will be eligible next Spring (TheDon).
