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Princeton coach Bill Farley, who has led his Tiger team to six consecutive Eastern Seaboard Championships, is a strong believer in this corollary...
...Farley, himself a former middle-distance man and an American medal winner at the 1964 Olympics, said yesterday "a good middle-distance man that can move up or down. The same guy can swim the 500 or 1650 and then come right back and give you a solid leg on one of the relays...
Princeton coach Bill Farley is only too glad to thrust his troops into the role of underdogs. "I honestly don't think we can win," he said with a straight face yesterday as he watched his charges go through their final day of pre-meet preparation. "Harvard has the big guns, and better depth than they've shown (in the dual meets), but we're gonna swim like hell, and I think we can make them nervous...
While it is true that Harvard has more potential first-place finishers than any other team in the meet (Bobby Hackett in his events and Ron Raikula in the 200 backstroke are considered practical shoo-ins), Farley seems to underestimate his own team's strength...
...Farley's top recruits include the Peddie School's Ron Cummins, who has gone 1:55 in the individual medley and could challenge Raikula in the backstroke...