It was another blockbuster weekend for the Harvard men's squash team, as the racquetmen topped Yale are Princeton to once again assets: themselves as the best team in the country.

The Crimson shut Elis on Saturday at Hemenway Gym and then travelled to Princeton and came away with a hard-fought 6-3 victory.

The triumphs earned Harvard its third straight national nine-man championship as well as undisputed bragging rights in the Ivy League.

Yale was no match for the mighty Crimson, a the Bulldogs were only able to salvage three games in the lopsided 9-0 affair.

Overall, the Crimson just dominated the match. "Everything sent according to form." Harvard coach Dave Fish said. "It wasn't much of a contest right up and down the line."

But Princeton would be a different story.

Although the Tigers had lost two matches this season, the racquetmen still anticipated a tough fight due to the "anything can happen" nature of the rivalry.

"It has a long history behind it." Harvard Co-Captain Peter Dinneen said. "It's almost like Harvard-Yale football."

And the match certainly lived up to expectations, proving to be the toughest of the year for the 10-0 Crimson squad.

Kenton Jernigan, playing at the top of the ladder, had little trouble with Princeton's Fazal Sheikh, and cruised to a 3-1 victory.

David Boyum at number two did not have such an easy time, however. Princeton's Christian Griffith had two match points in the fourth game, but Boyum held on and won in five.

"Griffith played the match of his life," Fish said. "But David held him off like a pro."

At number three, the Crimson's Russ Ball lost a controversial match to Princeton's Luke Evnin, 3-2.

"The match clearly needed a referee," Fish said. "At one point Evnin actually fired the ball at Rusty in the corner. It was not totally decided on skill."

Harvard lost another close one at number four when Princeton's Bill Ullman defeated Dinneen in five games. "He moved me around pretty well," Dinneen said. "He kept hitting reverse corner shot and I didn't really have a response."