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Unfortunately, back to the drawing boards is where Harvard should go, to come up with some plans for a new swimming pool before the year 2000. Essick has in John Walker one of the best diving coaches in the country, yet it is an almost impossible task for Walker to attract top-flight divers to Cambridge given the lack of depth of the IAB pool. All things being equal, the difference between Princeton's 14 feet of chlorinated water and Harvard's 11 feet is a helluva lot more than three feet...
...well, at least Ray Essick and company can take comfort in the realization that Harvard, after a three year ascendancy, has become the best swimming team (let's forget diving for the moment) in the East. Sure, if the medley relay hadn't been disqualified early in the first day, depriving Harvard of 26 cinch points, things might have been different...
...there is no way you can hang any goat horns on anybody," a still scratchy-voiced Crimson coach Essick said yesterday. "I'm not sure that our kids didn't swim better after the relay was disqualified. It was an obvious disapointment" not to win, he added. Yet there were numerous reasons to be pleased...
...interview yesterday, Crimson coach Ray Essick was hoarse from cheering, but proud of his team's effort. "The disqualification on the first day bonded our team together. Although we lost, our team really showed a lot of class," he whispered...
...intend to go down there with a major preparation all the way," Essick said. "I wish we could take more men than the limit...