Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chouteau Dyer of St. Louis, Mo., received the Francis Burr Scholarship given to the senior who combines Burr's qualities of character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability...
...Chouteau Dyer '57 of Eliot House and St. Louis, Mo., was awarded the Eugene Wyman trophy. The recipient of the Wyman trophy is the high scorer on the swimming team for the total season...
...addition to the 100-freestyle, Dyer finished second to Bob Keiter of Amherst by two knuckles of a finger length in the finals of the 50-yard freestyle, which was so close that the judges took more than five minutes to decide...
Keiter's time, for an NCAA Championship meet record, was a blistering 22.1--only two tenths of a second off the American record and one tenth better than Dyer's best time of 22.2. Dyer was clocked at 22.4, but the timer's margin was not visible at the finish...
...however, there was little doubt about the winner. Dyer went out very fast and the rest of the field was swimming around his knees for the first 60-70 yards. The Crimson captain then held out against his opponents' closing sprints to win by a head. Olympic freestyler Dick Hanley of Michigan finished second, but was disqualified for missing a turn...