Word: gambril
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest squads in Harvard history," Essick said yesterday, "but you have to give an awful lot of the credit to Don Gambril for building up the program...
What is really needed, apparently, is more floor space and more water. Intercollegiate basketball, wrestling and fencing will be moved across the river to new buildings at Soldiers Field, freeing the IAB for intramurals. Don Gambril, big-time, big-thinking swimming coach, requested an Olympic pool in the planned complex, but he has departed for Alabama, and the new pool has been moved on the charts to Observatory Hill, primarily for the use of Radcliffe residents and graduate students...
...GAMBRIL is gone. Gambril who brought crewcuts and coaching genius to the IAB pool. Gambril, who pumped life into an antiquated and mediocre swimming program and transformed it into an aquatic tour de force, an invincibility, a flawlessly primed winning machine, who paced the pool deck at the IAB like an impatient and regal lion that knows that he want sand realizes that he has limited time to attain it, and brought a share of an Eastern title to Cambridge in two years, who recruited finagled, persuaded, and cajoled enough high school seniors across the country to come east...
...have missed much, and many. Yet there are compensations as you venture, virginal and unsullied, unprejudiced and unbiased, into the Harvard athletic scene. You may not be able to replace the ludicrous, the bizarre, the amazing exploits of Endzone, or Harry, or the Local Line, or Gambril, or Goldston--they are lost to you forever and are mere memories for those of us who have watched, rejoiced, suffered and agonized through their tenure at Harvard--but you still may find the incredibility of an Edo, a Radcliffe crew, an Yntema, a Crimson baseball juggernaut to temper and minimize your loss...
...Gambril] really put the air back in the balloon," Essick said yesterday of the Harvard swimming program. "And I think that with the returning lettermen and the really quality freshmen coming next year, we definitely have the potential to compete on a national level...