After scoring the most successful coup of his tennis coaching career, you would expect Jack Barnaby to be quite content with his team. But despite last Wednesday's victory over Yale for the first time since he became coach in 1937, the ambidextrous racquets mentor now half-jokingly admits that he's a little worried about a letdown for the match coming up at Dartmouth this Saturday.

Barnaby really got his players up last week for the big one at New Haven; in fact, they got so high that they never stopped counting victories in the 15-match contest until they hit 14. But after reaching its peak for that triumph, the team's spirit dropped off a little, and even the favored doubles team got whipped in the New England Intercollegiates on Saturday. Barnaby's job now is to perk his players up again for Dartmouth without letting them get too overconfident.

The Yale slaughter, Barnaby feels, was due to two things: great team spirit and great material. Crimson teams in the past have usually had plenty of fight but not enough to make up for their lack of ability. Witness last year's Yale match, when, with number one man Charlie Ufford sick with mumps, the team still came within a match point of upsetting the Blue, and finally bowed only 8 to 7.

But this year things were different. Barnaby had three junior and two senior returning lettermen; including his first and third singles players and a member of the 1951 first doubles duo. But even more encouraging were the men moving up from last year's undefeated freshman team; Barnay juxtaposed these neatly with his veterans to form a six-man singles lineup which is solid all the way down.

The sophomores especially came along faster than Barnaby expected. Johnny Rauh, who almost beat Captain Ufford in a test match earlier this spring, played second singles and third doubles most of the time, and lost only three matches in both positions. His doubles partner, Don Bossart, did even better playing sixth singles; Bossart lost only one doubles and one singles match all year, both to tennis-loaded Princeton. Barnaby now knows how swimming coach Hal Ulen feels about always being bridesmaid to the best team in the East.

Gene Mann, who moved up from fifth to fourth singles during the spring, also played well his first year on the varsity.

But besides these rookies, who will be with the team for two more years, Barnaby also had a fine group of yearlings who will form the nucleus of next year's squad. Ufford, who has played numer one for the past two years, and Art French and Dave Watts will all return in 1953. French played three this year, while Watts alternated at four and five.

Seniors Gerry Murphy and Bill Goodman, both three-time letter winners after this season, also helped the squad. Goodman for the second straight year teamed with a team captain at first doubles, this time helping to steady Ufford.

The bottom of the squad this year was almost exclusively staffed with sophomores. After Murphy, only Goodman at ninth singles returned from the 1951 varsity. Steve Sonnabend at eight, Terry King at ten, and Herb Stone, Frank Goodman, Mike Ward, and Donn Spencer all played enough their first year on the varsity to win letters.

The number of award winners, 14, marks a new high for the tennis team, under the H.A.A. rules requiring participation in half the matches. Barnaby tried to schedule as many 15-match contests this year as possible in order to give more men a chance to play.

But now that Barnaby has another ten singles and five doubles matches coming up at Dartmouth, he's worried again. The coach wants to win this one, for his 11th victory against two defeats. That would make the Crimson the best team in New England and tops in Barnaby's tennis coaching career.