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...GAMBRIL HAS KEPT his word this year. No swimmers have been cut. No one has been hassled about his hair. No direct pressure has been applied to make every practice, much less two a day. No lectures about the evils of drug use occurred...
...meet. The reasons for the poor or non-performance of the upperclassmen are many; academic pressures, bad love lives, poor health, being constantly stoned, but some of it must be traced to the feeling expressed over and over again that they didn't feel they really belonged on Don Gambril's team...
This feeling was summed up beautifully in junior David Strauss's comment on Gambril's statement. "As far as I'm concerned, the most important day of the season is admissions day at Harvard." Dave said, "Well that's great, I'll work out hard and taper and shave down for April...
...week before the Yale meet I walked into Coach Gambril's office to arrange an interview. His first sentence to me: "I'm just trying to finish up this season, but I'm mostly working on next year." Which is fine for Gambril and the freshmen, but hardly contributed to the juniors and seniors wanting to work hard and see their team do well. Gambril tended to ignore the upperclassmen during workouts and concentrate on his stars. Fred Mitchell, Baughman, Neville and Brumwell. One junior stated. "We've got five coaches and it was like there weren...
...upperclassmen didn't share Baughman's enthusiasm. Some had a wait and see attitude, but many were upset that Merritt hadn't gotten the job and had visions of Gambril as a crew-cut, marine drill sergeant who would wring a national championship out of Harvard if it killed them all. Gambril felt this hostility, and in his first appearance before the swimmers last May 17 he treaded softly, was well-spoken, and let the team know that radical changes weren't in the planning stages: no one would be cut, twice a day practices would not be required...