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...obvious shortcoming, the swimming program at Harvard is fast gaining ground on the rest of the league, with only Princeton left to catch. The recruiting edge is now Don Gambril's, and another group of swimmers of the caliber of a Tim Neville, Hess Yntema, Dave Brumwell or Rich Baughman could give the Crimson the depth to take it all next year...
After turning in its best afternoon in the heats, qualifying first in one event, second in two, and fourth and fifth in the other two, Harvard began the evening finals auspiciously. Rich Baughman, seeded fifth in the last and usually decisive heat of the 1650-yd. freestyle, started slowly but gathered momentum to pass faltering Ralph Baric of rival North Carolina State and eventually, with 50 yards to go, Tom Schmidt of South Carolina, to finish a surprising second behind defending champion Curtis Haydon of Princeton...
...time of 16:10.656 was three seconds off the school record time of 16:07.43 he set last year at the nationals, but the unexpected second-place swim ignited the Crimson, and it continued to equal or surpass expectations almost all evening, fighting courageously for a team second. Baughman thus closed out the meet with a 10th-place in the 400-IM, an 8th in the 500-yd. freestyle, along with his final second, a fine comeback from a month of illness in January...
...Rich Baughman, swimming in the consolation finals of the same event and seemingly out of contention in the race, put on a fine sprint in the final 25 yards to move up from dead last to third place. The finish gave him tenth place over all and was good for three points...
...team of Fred Mitchell, Mike Cook, Hess Yntema, and Rich Baughman chopped a whopping twelve seconds off the old Harvard record of 7:10, with a superlative 6:58.709 performance. Cook, who had swum a very fast 1:44.6 leg on the qualifying relay in the afternoon turned in the best 200-yd. free of his career as he led the Crimson effort with an excellent...