Varsity tennis captain Dale Junta won the 1957 New England Intercollegiate Championship one year late by crushing Amherst's Tom Richardson Sunday afternoon at Trinity College in Hartford.

The powerful senior, well on his way to recovery from an early season back injury, downed the Lord Jeff number one man with little difficulty, 6-3, 6-1, 6-1. Junta said yesterday that his back didn't bother him at all, an encouraging sign since he will face Yale's Don Dell tomorrow. When Amherst played the Elis, Dell easily defeated Richardson, 6-4, 6-2.

Last year Junta reached the finals of the tournament by beating Tom Frieberg, who is now number three on the strong Yale team, in the semifinals. On the next day, however, it rained, and the finalists could not arrange another time to continue the match until this spring.

In the contest Sunday, Richardson was not playing as well as he did when he trounced the Crimson's Larry Sears in the first singles match at Amherst, 6-1, 6-1. On that day, however, Sears was not up to his usual excellent game.

In a match yesterday afternoon, Ned Weld upset Tim Gallwey to win the third spot on the Harvard Prentice Cup group. Weld, who is one below Gallwey on the regular team, took the three-set match 2-6, 6-1, 6-2. He will join Junta, Sears, and three Yale players for the trip to England this summer to play the Cup matches.

Tomorrow, the tennis team will travel to New Haven to meet Yale in a match that will decide both the Big Three and Eastern League champion. The contest is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. on the Bulldogs' clay courts.