Word: dives
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most exciting event of the afternoon was the breast-stroke in which Roger Willcox prevailed by the narrow margin of one foot. Bill Cann scored a win in the dive with Pete Waring just failing to take a second...
...Dive--Won by Tom Mahoney (Y) 91.2 points; second, Buds Twining (Y); 9rd Russ Adams...
...surged along on their respective backs they were forced to see not a decent ceiling, but a be-girdered roof cluttered with Tiger fans clinging to the rafters. One eager Bengal rooter even dropped his raincoat into the tank, but not during a race--it was only during the dive...
...outcome of the meet seems sure to depend on the sprints more than anything else. If the 50 and 100 firsts go to the Crimson, if Harvard gets eight points in the dive, and if seconds are picked up in the specialty events, then Princeton may suffer its first defeat since their meet with Yale two years ago. But everything must come out in line with the Harvard dope sheet. If the breaks are against Greenhood and Co., there will be no hope...
...here of the business-like part of the evening when he repelled Phil Carson's tremendous last-lap sprint to win the A.A.U. 500-yard free-style event. Frank Powers was third and Ed Hewitt fourth; the time, 5:45.6. Rusty Greenhood won the New England A.A.U. three-meter dive with 119.63 points, Art Bosworth took the flying-start century backstroke in 1:03.2, Eliot House beat Kirkland and Lowell in 1:29.7 in the House 150 medley, and Harvard (Powers, Bosworth, Ned Goldwasser, and Jim Curwen) triumphed in the 400 relay in 3:44 to win a National Junior...