Word: dyers
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Captain Chouteau Dyer took the 100- yd. freestyle and led the Crimson to an unexpected fifth place in the NCAA Swimming Championships held at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the last weekend in March...
Captain Chouteau Dyer is the Crimson's chief hope for points, and he is either favored or co-favored in both of the sprints. If he can win them both, the varsity might be able to finish as high as third. If he somehow gets shut out in them, however, the varsity would almost certainly fall out of the top ten teams...
...Dyer's best chance is in the 100-yard freestyle, where his listed time of 49.0 is 0.8 seconds better than that of any other entrant. Robin Moore of Stanford, the world record-holder at 48.9, was injured in football this fall and wil not compete. Olympic 100-meter freestyler Dick Hanley of Michigan (49.8), Don Patterson (50.0) of Michigan State, and the Yale trio of Roger Anderson (50.1), Dave Armstrong (50.1), and Rex Aubrey (50.2) will offer the chief opposition...
...fifty, Dyer faces even toughter competition, for both Bob Keiter of Amherst, who beat him in the Easterns, and Fred Westphal of Wisconsin have equalled his best time of 22.2. Dave Armstrong of Yale (22.4), Bill Roth of North Carolina (22.5), and Rex Aubrey of Yale, the defending co-champion, are some of a host of strong contenders, eleven of whom have bettered 23 seconds this year...
Griffith J. Winthrop '58, of Winthrop House and Canandiagua, N.Y., succeeded H. Chouteau Dyer as captain of the Crimson swimming team. He swam during part of the season on the 400-yard freestyle relay team...