Word: dives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Vanghan, intramural swimming coach, said that between 30 and 40 entrants are expected to compete. Yardling splasher will strive in the following events: 50-yard free style; 100-yard free style; 200-yard free style; 100-yard backstroke; 100-yard breaststroke; 75-yard medley swim, and the dive...
...calibre, was mounted in the shaft of the 300 h.p. Spad supplied to leading French pursuit pilots, back in September, 1918. De Turenne, my escadrille commander, had one. So did foremost French ace Fonck, who on one occasion had fired the canon, was easing away in a power dive to shake off some Fokkers behind him when one of the empty 37 mm. shell cases jammed his stick control, so that he could not pull out of the dive. At the risk of falling out, Fonck threw off his safety belt in order to reach the stick mounting...
...were several things that happened there at the Pool that turned the tide on the Elis. Everyone know that Jameson and Cummin would win, that the medley team would win, that Charley Hutter would pick up least ten points. The things that counted were Rus Greenhood's winning the dive, Don Barker's third in the 100, and Jim Monroe's third in the breaststroke...
...particular--the Eli's superior relay team. But we were wrong when we thought it would be the crucial event. Perhaps the turning point that sent the meet in Harvard's direction, if there can be a turning point in a steady procession, was when Rus Greenhood won the dive. Those who know the Crimson Sophomore best felt sure he would win: others thought of Endweiss, but it was the Harvard lad all the way when the competition began...
...individual events were as follows; Harvard took first and third in the 220-Yard Free Style; first and second in the 50-Yard Free Style; first and second in the 100-Yard Free Style; first in the 440-Yard Free Style; and first in the Relay. Yale took the Dive, the Medley Relay, the Backstroke, and the Breaststroke. As a climax to the victory, Coach Peterson was tossed into the pool and then presented with a watch...