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Wilson's boat: Hinckley, Taylor, Whitman, Fitz, Goddard, Brooks, Stiles, Brokaw, and Hollingsworth...
This was that although Ned Parke, Al Van de Weghe, and Dick Hough constituted the chief opposition to the Crimson, they had a very strong ally in good old Brokaw Pool--better known as simply old Brokaw Pool. This bath, built in the days when the trudgeon was man's fastest way of cleaving the waters, is not designed for modern intercollegiate swimming as most any Princeton man will readily admit. The tank is but four lanes wide and this narrowness results in a pretty rough surface when four sprinters are making their splashy way down the lanes...
...upshot of it all was that the Crimson rooters left Brokaw gloomily, hoping some kind Tiger alumnus would contribute a new pool. Princeton men answered that the funds, if forthcoming, will go to a new library first...
PRINCETON, N. J., Mar. 3--Captain Dick Hough and his Princeton swimming team--the greatest obstacle to a Harvard tank team since Yale's 1937 mer men--will attempt to assert their invincibility tomorrow night against Rusty Greenhood and his mates in Brokaw Pool...
After holding the Bruins scoreless for 13 frames, Healey allowed Brokaw a single with two men out. Hinckley was purposely passed and pitcher Devaney filled the sacks when Dick Grondahl bobbled his grounder. Harkins hit safely into short left, and the damage was done...