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Pete Adams, swimming for the last time in the IAB as were all the seniors, set a Harvard record in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Bill Shrout, John Bragg, and Bill Murphy helped Harvard hang tenaciously on to a small lead...
Halfway through the meet the score stood at 32-29 for Harvard. But the Tigers swept the 200-yard butterfly to gain the lead for the first time in the afternoon. Harvard's Bragg and Adams responded by sweeping the 100-yard freestyle. The seesaw continued to swing as Princeton won the 200-yard backstroke to tie the meet; Harvard stormed back with a Shrout-led sweep of the 500-yard freestyle. Then Princeton edged out Harvard's Carl Cummins in the 200-yard breaststroke, postponing the decision to the final event, the 400-yard free relay...
...reach for Columbia, Brooks began to use his reserves. With Chalfie out, Columbia won its first event in the 200-yard fly. Sophomore Terry Flanagan substituted for Birch in the backstroke and went a 2:18.3, no record, but good enough for a Crimson first. After John Bragg won the 500-yard freestyle, Brooks benched breaststroker Carl Cummins and Columbia won its second event, the 200-yard breaststroke. Shrout, Adams, and Thompson were back in action for the final relay, the 400-yard freestyle, when Harvard delivered the final blow to Columbia...
...romp started with a Crimson sweep of the 1,000-yard freestyle. John Bragg set the pace with a 11:24.3 in the gruelling event and Bob Hughes was not far behind...
Cummins' victory set the stage for the final relay. Harvard coach Bill Brooks put Pete Adams, Dan Thompson, John Bragg, and Bill Shrout on the line against Army's powerful four. Adams and Thompson opened up a lead of one body length which Bragg lost to Army's speedy Jay Williams. Shrout hit the water even with Cadet Heesch. Heesch, like Shrout, had won two freestyle events earlier. But for the relay Heesch was rested while Shrout was still tired from the gruelling 500-yard freestyle, two events before...