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...Swimming Upstream” is proof that Fingleton hasn’t lost any nerve since his champion tournament days: overseeing the production process, Fingleton had to plumb the depths of his childhood pain...
Which is more than a little surprising, given Fingleton’s boyhood. The grim realities of his youth—riddled with alcoholism and poverty—belie the enormous list of accomplishments he has acquired in adulthood: author, screenwriter, film producer, former champion swimmer, and graduate of our own dear alma mater. Consider the trajectory of Fingleton’s life and meaning is restored to the cliché title of his autobiography and its 2003 film adaptation, “Swimming Upstream...
...program fired coach John Lyons and rehired Teevens.Prior to returning to Hanover, Teevens was the head coach at Stanford, in the powerful Pac-10 conference. The team only went 10-23 in his three seasons, but it last year came as close as anyone to beating undefeated national champion USC.Teevens has more ties to Dartmouth then just coaching there. He was the Ivy player of the year in 1978, a year when he quarterbacked the Big Green to the Ivy League Title. In 1979, he graduated with a degree in history.Although Dartmouth is still struggling this year, it has already...
...line in a time of 16:31.70 and trailing only Homberger RK Germania and Cal’s freshman eight. On the lightweight side, the Crimson finished eighth in a competitive collegiate and club field featuring Harvard’s most competitive EARC rivals. Yale, the defending national champion, churned out a 15:37.19 clip, good for third place overall behind only Riverside Boat Club and New York Athletic Club. Navy followed right behind, coming across in 15:38.72.“Navy and Yale had an amazing race today,” senior four-seat Wes Kauble said...
...gelled quickly [and] now we expect to win these matches here pretty comfortably.” The pairs of Mukundan-Peterzan and Schnitter-Wang also won both their matches yesterday to move on. Singles and doubles action resumes today, with the finals to be held tomorrow. The doubles champion and both singles finalists will earn a berth in the ITA National Collegiate Indoor Championships, which will be held from Nov. 3-6 at the Racquet Club of Columbus, Ohio. —CALEB W. PEIFFER