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Murphy, Eastern champ in the three-meter dive two years ago, has just perfected a double-twist dive for use in the one-meter competition. "Bill looks really loose and his timing is great," assistant coach Benn Merritt said last night. "With this new dive, I expect him to win the one-meter as well as the three-meter," Merritt said...
...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...
Harvard's ace held a slight lead throughout the five-dive competition, but it was his superb last dive that gave him the points he needed to win. "After I finished my fifth, I knew I had won because Brown needed all nines on his last one to beat men," Murphy said...
Krause, who swam in three races during the afternoon, came from behind in the individual medley to nip Dartmouth's Al Rheem and set a new Harvard record of 2:01.1. Harvard then led, 23-20, but Brown's triumph in the one-meter dive tied the score...
Other winners for the Crimson were John Burris in the backstroke and Steve Baumgart in the breaststroke. The closest event was the three-meter dive...