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Glancing down the list of last year's individual champions in each event, however, the average observer would probably be surprised at such a forecast. After all, this year's team returns the winners of only two of Harvard's eight individual championships. So why isn't Joe Bernal crying into his coffee? Why do the experts see this year's meet as another chapter in the story of the Crimson swimming dynasty? Because depth wins championship meets and depth builds dynasties...
...today's final event, the 400-yd. medley relay, the aquamen will be looking to win one of the few Eastern titles that have eluded them in Bernal's three years here. Last year the Princeton relay outdueled the Harvard squad by the barest of margins, and this year's seniors realize that they have never beaten the Tigers in a medley relay. Winning this race would be a nice touch for the careers of those who inaugurated the Harvard swimming dynasty three years ago. Eastern Champs -- 1980 Bobby Hackett 1650-yd. freestyle 15:14.95 Geoff Seelen 100-yd. backstroke...
Until he can do that, Coach Joe Bernal has other plans for his energetic manager's preoccupation with speed. Hugon and Morton, also a computer wizard, are soon to help the staff at Blodgett create faster swimmers by setting up computer programs which can provide instantaneous statistics and analysis from the voluminous records kept on each member of the team...
When he returned to Cambridge that fall, Hackett found that Coach Joe Bernal's recruiting campaign had filled the waters of Blodgett Pool with talented swimmers...
...Hackett, swimming has been a year round commitment for 13 years. He's spent the last ten years under Bernal who coached him at Fordham Prep before they both arrived on the Harvard scene in the fall of 1977, and during the off season as a member of Bernal's Gators. Those ten years have been serious. Dead serious...