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Underwater wear has not always looked so good. Time was when the only safe way an amateur diver could tolerate cold deep-sea temperatures was in the same sort of black rubber "dry suit" (socalled because it kept water out) worn by U.S. Navy frogmen during World War II. Effective but cumbersome, the old suit required courses in calisthenics to put it on: one version had to be squirmed into through the neck hole, another through a single narrow slit in the front. Getting dressed too quickly resulted in overheating and perspiration. Appropriately enough, it was the company owned...
Brooks, who coached the Bermuda team at three Olympic Games, spent his first collegiate coaching years at Rider College and the University of Detroit. He came to Harvard in 1946 and became head coach after the 1959 season. Brooks was a swimmer and diver before he began coaching...
...swimmers had lost Martie Chalfie and a great diver in Bill Murphy, but the sophomore stars were back, and there was a talented group from last year's freshman team to strengthen the lineup. It appeared at first that the team might finish behind Yale in the EISL. But the league was tougher this winter and the Crimson faltered in the crucial meets in February to end up in fourth place again with the same record...
...Paul Brundage gained Penn momentary glory by beating Kobick in the individual medley, but when the Quakers' diver, talented Bob Koons, had to settle for second place behind Dave Silver, it was just a question of getting the meet over with Harvard swept the three-meter board later when Koons, who had been sick all week, didn't compete...
Penn's most outstanding swimmers are Steve Kowal, Rich Hass, Larry Reider, Joe Mann, Pete Redmayne and diver Bob Koons. Kowal is a fast freestyler at 100 and 200 yards, and a great race could come in the 100-free against Harvard's Mike Cahalan. Al Ackerman will probably meet Kowal in a fast 200-free...