Word: diversant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from Cahalan's sparkling performance, there was not much reason for Harvard partisans to be pleased. Bill Murphy, who was rated a very strong contender in the one-meter diving, had to settle for a fifth-place finish behind divers from Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Pittsburgh.
The determining event was the threemeter dive, which featured a battle between the two best divers in the league--Mike Brown of Dartmouth and Harvard's Bill Murphy. Brown beat Murphy last year and, earlier yesterday, had edged him in the one-meter competition.
With the score 22-12, Dave Powlison won the individual medley to start the Crimson towards its three consecutive sweeps. John Bragg was second. Divers Bill Murphy and Dick Eisenberg combined for another of their many sweeps by easily outpointing Penn's Amos Koons in the one-meter dive. Johnnie...
Series of Leaks. Late in the week a Navy investigation revealed that "one of the diving rigs in use by Sealab divers was equipped with an empty Bar-alyme canister." Without the Baralyme, which absorbs carbon dioxide exhaled by the diver, the gas builds up in the system and can...
The closest events in today's meet will be the backstroke and the individual medley. Both events are UConn's power area. Harvard should have an easy win in the 3-meter dive, but UConn divers are at least equal to Harvard on the 2-meter board.