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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...
...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...
...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...