Word: dive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defending champions in tonight's finals are: Richard Thoman, Yale, 100 backstroke; Donald Sheff, Yale, 100 freestyle; Wayne Moore, Yale, 440 freestyle; Owen Davies, Navy, three-meter dive; Yale (Thomas, Stanton Smith, Sheff), 300 medley relay...
...second installment of the three-day championships gets underway at 8:15 p.m. tonight, with trial heats at 2:30 p.m. Finals will be run off in six events--the 50 yard freestyle, 200-yard back-stroke, 220-yard freestyle, 200-yard breast-stroke, one meter dive, and 400-yard freestyle relay...
...Ulen's Crimson figures to keep its second-place status for the third straight year. The Crimson's major hope for a first place--in fact, its only hope--is diver Pete Dillingham. In 1952, Dillingham won the one-meter dive; the year before, he took the three-meter dive...
...Unbelievable. Big Jim Jeffries half killed himself working off 65 Ibs. The night before the fight, which was held in Reno on July 4, 1910, he was in such bad shape that a contingent of public-spirited citizens tried to bribe Johnson to take a dive. Johnson politely replied: "Tell Mister Jim that we are going to do the best we know." In the 15th round the next day, before 16,000 unbelieving customers, Jim Jeffries sank soddenly to the canvas, his once awesome right draped over the lower rope of the ring. He was not counted out-nobody ever...
...varsity meet, the Crimson picked up two firsts and five second places. Easily the most exciting was the threemeter dive, in which the Crimson's Pete Dillingham preserved his perfect record, shading Eli's Kenny Welch by 22-100ths of a point. Dillingham--who now has nine victories in nine performances for the year--tallied 101.35 points, while Welch picked up 101.63. Senior Larry Kelly was third...