Dean Mathey (November 23, 1890 – April 16, 1972) was an American

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player active in the early 20th century. Namesake of Mathey College at

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, he was raised in

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and was a member of the Cranford Golf Club (now called the Echo Lake Country Club). He won the National Clay Court Tennis Doubles Championship twice.http://cranfordhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012_06_11_11_07_50; Dean Mathey by Robert C. Hall (the fascinating story of an extraordinary man and onetime Cranford resident, including Mathey’s diary for all of 1918 during his military service in World War I).; http://pacf.org/dean-mathey/ (Dean Mathey was born in 1891 and raised in Cranford, N.J. and was a noted trustee of Princeton University); http://matheycollege.princeton.edu/about-us/history (Mathey was the namesake of Mathey College at

)

Tennis career

Mathey reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. National Championships in

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and the final of the doubles in

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. At the

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, he reached the semifinals in 1916 where he lost in four sets (2-6, 6-3, 3-6, 4-6) to William Johnston.

Grand Slam tournament performance timeline

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