Word: aquamen
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Twenty years ago, beating Yale was the annual ambition of every Harvard men's swim team Led by Don Schollander, four-time gold medalist at the 1964 Olympic Games, the Elis were top dogs in Eastern waters. But this year's crop of aquamen made that ancient history as they curbed the Bulldogs--70.43, Saturday in New Haven to clinch the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League championship...
...Harvard men's swim team had its mind on other things. Coach Joe Bernal had his mind on other things. But even with everyone thinking about Eastern Seaboard Championships in three weeks, the aquamen pulled the plug on an innocous Cornell squad, 77-35, at Blodgett Pool yesterday, raising their record...
Nothing short of divine intervention could have saved the Big Red (1-5 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL)) from the mercy killing. Even with the aquamen trying to-qualify for Easterns in events they hadn't yet qualified in. Cornell could only muster two wins in a 16-event expanded meet. Harvard grabbed the other 14 first-place finishes and swept up second spot in seven of those events...
With two dual meets remaining, the EISL championship sewn up, and a winning streak of 20 meets--the longest in collegiate swimming currently--Bernal is not reluctant to admit he's looking toward Easterns. Tapering has begun for some of the aquamen and he said workouts will be reduced 10-15 percent in the next week...
After three hours, 47 minutes and over 45 heats, Harvard proved what everyone had already known that the Crimson aquamen are the class of the Boston area...