Word: gambril
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Although it lost to Princeton Saturday to complicate the league standings, this year's Harvard swimming team may be one of the best in history as well. In winning eight of ten individual swimming events, Don Gambril's squad again indicated that it has the first-place strength to match anyone in the East. That the Crimson's lack of overall depth makes Harvard's Eastern swimming supremacy still probably a year away detracts little from the superior performances turned in at Princeton by a talented group of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors...
Harvard swimming has both changed a great deal and remained much the same since Gambril assumed the head coaching job last year. He has taken a small nucleus of fine swimmers, added two crops of talented freshmen and molded a swimming power in just two years. That is new. But, at the same time, Gambril has succeeded in adjusting to Harvard's peculiar style of athletics, a style dominated by the individual idiosyncrasies and personal needs of a Harvard athlete. This mix, of high-powered team ambitions and low-keyed personal attention, has proved to be a successful one. Whether...
...have to count on Campbell getting at least a first and a second and swimming a leg on a relay, and Haydon for two firsts," Gambril said, "so we'll just have to put up our strongest lineup, and try to out-guess them...
What makes Gambril's job more difficult is the versatility of Campbell, who besides being an excellent backstroker is first-rate in the individual medley and the 100-yd. and 200-yd. freestyles as well...
Besides the battle in the dives and the freestyles, the fight for seconds and thirds will take on added significance. Gambril's team, while numbering at least one strong performer in every event, may not be quite as deep as Princeton. Some unexpected Harvard seconds or thirds could mean the difference between an undefeated season and plaudits for Gambril and a record marred by another loss to the Tigers...