Word: diversant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The first two rounds will be fiercely fought events. And Murphy's weakest dive -- a twisting optional -- must come in the first round. All 50 divers run through five dives in the preliminaries -- three are specifically required of everyone and the other two are optional.
Murphy's game effort in the dive pointed up one serious flaw in the Harvard swimming program. At all the other major Eastern powers, the divers practice on relatively new Duraflex boards. The IAB board is 10-years old.
In fact Cornell's hotshot divers Jay Moses and Tom Paxton swept their event in a December meet with Eastern leader Yale, and either one of them could snap the five-meet winning streak of Harvard ace Bill Murphy.
On his first run, Campbell clocked 297 m.p.h. He swung Bluebird around and started back into the measured kilometer, picking up speed until he was doing an estimated 340 m.p.h. Suddenly, Campbell's voice crackled over the radio. "She's tramping [shaking]! She's tramping! She'...
Through that night and into the next afternoon, Hale bobbed about helplessly, suffering such excruciating pain from the cold that "I hoped I would die." Though he was unaware of it, nobody knew of his plight; the Morrell had not even sent off an SOS. Not until 34 hours after...