Harvard Coach?

Any ideas on identifying this coach.

His writing is marginally better than mine!

(ps, this is item 200 (ish) in the vast ephemera lot we bought a couple of months back. But as we take stuff out of the boxes the quantity seems to increase!)

 

STOP taking stuff out.
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What a mess.
Atimhl

 

Hum... 1971-1972 academic year, team won something... Perhaps this will help.

Debora

http://www.gocrimson.com/information/history/nationalchampionships

 

Why do they continue to use the Rs in the school name?
It's a waste of good ink.

 

You can eliminate the ice hockey Coach. Here is a copy of his signature.

https://rackrs.com/player/8912/bill-cleary

 

Tommy Amaker
Maybe....

 

Not in 1972.....

 

Sig for Amaker looks different.

 

Trophy "plate" is unique to few sports like tennis....but it does not look like barnaby's signature

 

I was also trying to narrow it down to Harvard's longtime squash coach Jack Barnaby. The first letter doesn't really look like a B, and if you've seen his signature and it didn't look like that, then I guess it is not his!

 

Well, if all else fails, here's THE CRIMSON archives for 1972...

http://www.thecrimson.com/sitemap/1972/

Debora

 

The first letter is a G. Gamb-something?

 

I would be surprised, given how the "G" in "Good Luck" appears

 

I thought the first letter might be S?

 

I am sorry, Fig, but i never did find Jack Barnaby's signature. It was rowing coach Harry Parker that I was comparing. There are several signed copies of "Advantage Tennis" by the long time harvard coach that sold on ebay. Unfortunately, ebay purged those listings from their searchable records.

The other consideration here in identifying the signature is the player's first name, "Dick".

 

The first G is printed and the second one is cursive; they're different. It might have been an assistant, in which case this could take a while.

 

Printed by rolls into cursive as it connects to the "o". I thought about the assistant coach angle as well.....daunting!

My niece said is going there nect year on a volleyball scholarship.......

 

My 1972 search turned that up but I didn't research further.
I did see a sig not the same but they sometimes evolve over time.

 

Perhaps

Your Harvard coach research probably turned that up because Tommy, who played at Duke in the 80's, is the current basketball coach there and doing a fine job. I actually thought it might him until I saw the date....he would have been seven years old.

I collect sports, rock and roll, political and hollywood autographs but this one is bit more obscure.

 

Obscure

Would have been nice to have an easy one for a change