Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson brigade of distance swimmers is a potentially devastating collection of talent. First there's Hackett and his sidekick Mike Coglin. One time British national team member Coglin, last year's Eastern champ in the 400-yd. individual medley, commenced his second season for Harvard by winning two of his other specialties, the 500-yd. and 1000-yd. freestyles, in impressive fashion last Saturday. Add to this duo three-time high school All-American freshman Tim Maximoff, fellow Californian Phil Atkinson, and local hero Jack Gauthier (see freshman profiles), and you can understand why opponents will be seeing red when...
...trick is to convince high-schoolers that Harvard swimming is for real. While it was a heartbreaker to fall short at Easterns last year, Bernal claims that "we could have won Easterns if we had really wanted, but maybe it paid off to wait for nationals. By beating out schools like Stanford and Princeton there, we proved that we won't leave our swimming at the bloodbath of the Eastern Championships, and we were able to get some of the top national swimmers to come to Harvard...
...scene is Providence, Rhode Island. March 5, 1978. The event is the Eastern Championship Final of the 400-yd. freestyle relay. The outcome will determine the victor of the three-day title meet, the most important yearly event in Eastern swimming. After a heart-stopping eight man duel, it comes down to a fraction of a second--Princeton freshman star Andy O'Hara touches out Crimson superduper star Bobby Hackett to win the race and the meet...
That moment was the one blemish in an otherwise perfect 1977-78 campaign for the Harvard men's swimming team, one that included an undefeated dual meet season, an Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League title, a cascade of individual and team records, and a fifteenth place finish in the NCAA Championships, the Crimson's best since...
This season, second-year coach Joe Bernal's budding program is geared to erase that blemish once and for all. You see, the Tigers have won six Eastern Championships in a row. Harvard has never won. But when the meet comes to Cambridge in early March, things should be different...