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...Rossi's performance in 1963 perhaps surpassed his sophomore year. After again shipwrecking Navy, Del Rossi mowed down 13 Eli's as the Crimson battered Yale 14-1. His strikeouts reportedly came on a "tantalizing smorgasbord of curves, change-ups, and good old fastballs...
Nothing went as predicted. Time and again the outmanned Crimson team came back to stall off the powerful Eli machine. It was the story of a small group of Harvard stars swimming again and again to thwart the Bulldog depth...
...that included backstroke since Christmas. It was a carefully guarded secret that he had injured his shoulder, forcing him to give up backstroke or risk permanent injury. Kaumann's unexpected appearance in the I.M. was the first of several monkey wrenches that Crimson coach Bill Brooks threw into the Eli machine...
...Eli coach Moriarity settled back to watch his sure victory, and two thousand screeming sons of Eli were set to enjoy the same. Then Brooks pulled another surprise. Up to the block stepped junior backstroker John Pringle. Pringle had just finished winning the 200-yard backstroke and had not swum the breaststroke all season. But he was one of Harvard's superstars and the crowd tensed...
There was a lot of pressure on the Crimson to win the June 13 Yale race. Yale had won the last five races, and another Eli victory would even the series record...