(9(0 A tennis legend Cup star, was perhaps Kenfield 's most successful player at North Carolina. In 1992, the Cone Kenfield Tennis Center was opened on the campus, named after the coach and one of his players from 1928. Kenfield, born in Louisville, Kentucky, became the first North Carolina tennis coach. He had once been the vice president of the Curtiss Candy Company, but he left that post, he said, because of "the killing hours." He preferred coaching tennis and "being out of doors." John Kenfield died January 20, 1958. He was 66. Q
Kenfield is in the center, wearing the letter sweata It was one of those fabled stories. The Harvard tennis team
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hadn't lost a dual meet since 1928 and, by 1931, had notched 38 consecutive victories. North Carolina brought a 12-0 mark and a string of 26 victories to the May 1931 match in Cambridge, Massachusretts
Fred Steers [1941] was, with Mel Randall, the Big Ten doubles tennis champion in 1946 and 1947 for the University of Illinois. Steers, who transferred to MPMA from Morgan Park High School for his senior year, also won the Midwest Prep Conference singles title for MPMA in 1941. He also was a middle distance runner on the track team, a halfback on the lightweight football team, and played the bass drum in the band.
and, in the clash of unbeaten teams, the Tar Heels won a decisive 7-2 victory. The coach of the North Carolina squad was John Kenfield [191 I], a three-sport star in his days at the Academy, and captain of the tennis, football and baseball teams . Kenfield was a legend at North Carolina. His dual match play record, from 1928-1955 was 434-30-2 . His teams won 15 Southern Conference championships and two Atlantic Coast Conference titles. In 1986 Kenfield was elected to the college tennis hall of fame. Ten of his teams were unbeaten in dual matches and his Tar
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Heels won an NCAA-record 67 consecutive dual meet victories before finally losing a match in 1949. Vic Seixias, a later Davis
Fred Steers, in 1941 .
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