McGill University Athletics

The 1946 Redmen tennis team, led by player-manager Jack Spencer, who captured the regular-season individual singles title, won 19 of 21 matches to finish first of four teams with 19 points, ahead of Toronto (13), Montreal (9) and Queen's (0).

As Eastern intercollegiate tennis champions, McGill was challenged by the University of Saskatchewan, the western champs, to compete for the Canadian Dominion intercollegiate crown. In that historic tournament, played on Oct. 23, McGill erased a 2-0 deficit to capture the last three singles matches with wins from No.3-seed Bobby Duford, No.4-Breen Marien and No. 5- Colin Ramsey. But Saskatchewan rallied to even the count at 3-3 after winning the first doubles match, setting up a rubber match in the final doubles competition. In the last set, played before a large crowd at the campus's McTavish tennis courts, McGill's smooth stroking duo of No.1-James Duff and Breen Marien combined brilliant headwork with strategic play to win 6-3, 6-8, 6-3 and give the Redmen a heart-thumping 4-3 victory.