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George "Bunks" Burditt '43, Stellar Varsity basketball forward and captain-elect of the 1943 team, will travel to Kansas City, Missouri, to cover the national championship game, between Dartmouth and Stanford. He will report the contest for the Boston Herald, and will arrive in time for the game Wednesday...
Coach Hal Ulen announced last night that the following men will be the Crimson entries in the Nationals: Captain Tom Shrewsbury in the 50 and 100 yard free styles; Captain-elect Bill Drucker in the 150 yard backstroke and the 300 yard Medley Relay; Bus Curwen in the Medley Relay; John Eusden in the Medley relay and the 50 and 100 yard free styles; Brad Patterson and Shaw McCutcheon in the high board fancy dive; and Dave Barnes and George Christman in the 1500 meter free style...
...Crimson entries, Captain-elect Bill Drucker and Bus Curwen were the only tankmen to place. Drucker garnered a third behind Danny Dannenbaum of Yale and Tom Shand of Princeton in the 150 yard backstroke with the sparkling time of 1:37.7, only eight-tenths of a second slower than the winning pace...
Coach Hal Ulen of the Harvard Varsity swimming team yesterday named the following men as his entries: John Eusden in the 50 and 100-yard free style swim, Captain-elect Bill Drucker in the 150-yard backstroke, Bus Curwen in the 200-yard breastroke, Dave Barnes, George Christman and Captain Tom Shrewsbury in the 440-yard free style, and a medley relay team composed of Drucker, Curwen, and Eusden. Shrewsbury will also compete in the 220-yard free style race...
...course, all has not been roses for the Bruin team this year, as late last fall they lost Bill Irvine, captain-elect and the team's ace diver, to the Army. To replace Irvine, Brown is depending upon sophomore John Ahearn, who starred last year for the yearlings, and Junior Hank Gossler. From the accounts received concerning these men they are very definitely to be depended on to give Shaw McCutcheon, Harvard;s top diver, a stiff fight for first place in the diving event...