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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FREESTYLE: 1. Anderson (Yale), 2. Cornwell (Yale), 3. Goodman (Army), 4. Ellison (Yale), 5. Bahrenburg (Dartmouth), 6. Bronston (Yale)--2:07.0. 100-YARD BREASTSTROKE: 1. Buzzard (Syracuse), 2. Johnston (West Chester Teachers), 3. Koletsky (Yale), 4. Hardin (Yale), 5. S. Falk (Harvard), 6. Fleming (Yale)--1:06.1. ONE-METER DIVE: 1. Frischmann (Syracuse), 2. Gorman (Harvard), 3. Knight (Army), 4. Starkweather (Yale), 5. Stone (Harvard), 6. Hurych (Rutgers)--387.25 total points. 200-YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: 1. Jecko (Yale), 2. McGill (Syracuse), 3. Pinney (Connecticut), 4. Clinton (Yale), 5. Sherman (Yale), 6. Jones (Amherst)--2:08.7 (Meet and Pool Record...
Both Frank Gorman and Greg Stone are listed in the one-meter dive for Harvard; defending champion Frank Knight of Army and J.Douglas Starkweather of Yale are also strong possibilities. Knight must definitely be favored, and Gorman will probably offer sharpest competition...
Unable to fly, Annapolisman Wead supported himself by writing about flying, mostly for the movies. Dirigible, Hell Divers, Test Pilot, Ceiling Zero, Dive Bomber and a dozen other pictures made him a well-paid, well-known man, a sort of Secretary of Aviation in Hollywood's ruling circles. In World War II Wead wangled active duty, hobbled about the flight decks of the Pacific with his neck in a steel brace, and won the Legion of Merit for his theory of the supporting carrier, a major contribution to Pacific strategy...
...dive and the relays, however, constitute Yale's main strength. The Blue beat Williston in the dive; the Crimson did not. In the 400-yard freestyle relay, Yale clocked 3:45.0 against Princeton last Saturday, whereas Harvard's best time...
...strange compassion on the part of Kiphuth, how the varsity can hope to score more than 25 points, leaving the Elis with at least 61. And if things go really badly, it is entirely conceivable that the Crimson might be shut out in every event but the dive...