Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton narrowed Harvard's lead to 15 points, 369-354, but lost a golden opportunity to enter the final day trailing by only three when the Crimson pulled off a stunning "upset" in last evening's final event, the 800-yd. freestyle relay...
...first event was even more successful in terms of points for the Crimson than the final one. Ron Raikula, Mike Coglin and Tim Maximoff all put together strong finishing legs in the 400-yd. individual medley to finish first, second and fourth, respectively. Raikula, who ranked among the top twenty in the world in the metric equivalent of this event this past summer, said afterwards, "After the butterfly, I though I was out of it. Then, on the fourth leg of breaststroke, I looked over and was surprised to see that no one was really ahead...
...meet began auspiciously enough with Crimson sophomore hero Bobby Hackett smashing his own pool record in yesterday afternoon's preliminaries of the first event, the 500 yd. freestyle. Hackett--cool, confident, unshaven, and wearing two suits--returned in the evening to cruise to an easy gold medal in 4:26.78, three full seconds under the NCAA Championship meet qualifying time in the 500, but two seconds off his meet record pace of one year ago (the only time all night when the meet record was not bettered). "I felt really strong," said the Yonkers flash afterwards. "I just wanted...
...there, however. The budding superstar demonstrated the value of his thrice weekly trips all summer from Cape Cod to Cambridge to train with Crimson coach Joe Bernal by leading off Harvard's medley relay with a 51.56 split for 100 yards backstroke. The sterling sophomore thereby qualified for that event at NCAAs...
Princeton, who fell behind by 48 points after failing to score in the diving, recovered to win the thrilling medley relay, the evening's final event. Harvard finished third in the event (behind the Tigers and Army) on the strength of strong legs by Seelen and Mack (45.33 split for his 100 free anchor...