Word: breast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ulen used every trick in the bag to try and take the meet, even living up to his promise to swim free style artist. Bus Curwen in the 200 yard breast stroke, and for a while it looked as though his plan would work...
...odds, however, it is safe to say that the Indians will be none-too-sure of themselves this afternoon, particularly since the amazing statement that Hal Ulen made yesterday when he publicly said that he would swim free style artist Bus Curwen in the medley relay and 200-yard breast stroke instead of in the 220 and 440 free styles...
...other hand, Ulen would be taking a tremendous risk in swimming Curwen in the butterfly. In the first place, whatever his ability, Bus could, at best, get a second, for Martens of Dartmouth is one of the best butterfliers in the East. Secondly, by swimming Curwen in the breast stroke, his talents in the long distance free styles would automatically be wasted...
...demonstrated in '35 at the Intercollegiates by a swimmer from Iowa who swam much faster than an ordinary breast-stroker,' said Ulen. "You can get in more leg movements than with the frog kick, so it's bound to be faster. One of my breast-strokers, "Sandy" Huston, can swim faster now with the fishtail kick." Mann's proposal has so far been regarded as illegal. The rule calls for the legs to separate and describe the same movement, but although the legs move in the same manner, they are kept together in the new kick...
Many object to the fishtail on other grounds than legal ones. The breast-stroke was probably the first stroke over used, and it has been retained as a racing event largely because of sentiment over its historical background. Since Mann's proposal would make the classic breast-stroke unrecognizable and more and more like the crawl, these dissenters fool that the breast-stroke should be retained as it is or else completely abandoned in favor of the crawl...