Word: gambril
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going into a championship meet without much depth, and the team with depth starts moving up in a meet of this kind," head coach Don Gambril said Tuesday. "We're going hopefully to improve on last year's fifth place finish, and we'd like to win some events." The way the team has performed thus far this season, these goals seem to be quite within Harvard's reach...
...first time since the white elephant landed, plop, in the middle of Cambridge, but it embarrassed the Yalies all afternoon. As it piled up what had to be the highest point total the Elis have ever given up, I couldn't help but think what a remarkable switch Don Gambril has engineered in just two short years...
...from the depths of the league and a 2-5 circuit record to the very top and a superlative 6-1 mark. In a winter of discontent which has seen a number of Harvard coaches come under the gun for their failure to produce championship teams, Gambril's almost fairy-tale perfect success story stands out even more clearly...
...Gambril has had help. This year's swimmers have proved again and again that they are the most dedicated, competitive, and talented group of athletes to swim at Harvard in quite a while, if not ever. In a performance which seemed so perfect that it read like a movie script, they broke nine pool records and eight Harvard standards. The consistently high level of these swims in such a high pressure situation as a league championship battle used to be the trademark of the great Yale teams of the past. This season Harvard has seemingly out-Yaled Yale...
...league is so well balanced at the top that no one team can dominate in the future the way the Elis did in the past. If any team can start a dynasty, the chances are good that it will be Harvard. The smashing triumph over Yale will undoubtably help Gambril as he continues to build the Crimson into an Eastern, and perhaps, national power. The recruiting edge over the rest of the Ivy schools is now his, and it is just the kind of advantage that Gambril likes to work with...