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Head Coach Bill Brooks, top Harvard man from 1946 until last year had, in his advanced age and failing health, relinquished actual running of the team to assistant coaches Benn Merritt and Harold Miroff. During the first part of last season it was assumed by most people that Merritt would become head coach upon Bill Brooks's retirement. He was reluctant to exercise power over the man he admired and would hopefully be replacing. But Brooks had no real knowledge of the internal disputes on the team and wasn't used to making decisions, thinking his assistant coaches could handle...
When the committee was first formed sentiment around the IAB was that it simply was a formality before naming Benn Merritt as head coach. Bill Brooks was heard to say, "I brought Benn here 12 years ago so that he could be head coach upon my retirement." The team recognized that Benn was the natural man for the job, for he had been with the team and was universally liked as a great person who treated swimmers as people. Some of the swimmers, particularly those who had come from big-time programs were dissatisfied with his coaching ability...
...There had definitely been dissatisfaction in the athletic office over the way the swim coaches had handled the Cahalan hassle, particularly the bad publicity they felt it received in the Crimson and elsewhere. b) "We wanted to attract the best coach possible." The sentiment expressed in numerous quarters was "Benn's a great guy but not a great coach." c) "We wanted a coach who understood the Harvard system and its philosophy, approved of it, and would fit harmoniously in it." Here appeared to be Benn's strongpoint, but if the Harvard system was to produce 2-5 teams...
...when he came up for re-election to the key post. In last week's balloting among Labor M.P.s, however, Jenkins won a surprising 140 votes against 96 for Michael Foot, a leader of Labor's left wing, and 46 for former Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Only three votes short of winning, Jenkins is expected to triumph in the runoff against Foot this week...
Harvard told Gambril that he could bring his own staff with him, but he decided that he wanted assistant coach Benn Merritt, also a candidate for the head job, to stay in his presest position. However, if the Corporation approves, Gambril will bring Skip Kenney as the diving coach, a job now held by Harold Miroff...