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...strength of these facts alone head coach Don Gambril might be tempted to paint an extremely optimistic picture of the season's prospects. But instead, the second-year coach is decidedly more cautious in his appraisal of the varsity's chances for the nine-meet campaign which starts Saturday against Navy...
...have the material to break every school record," Gambril said yesterday. "But we could honestly do it and still lose one more meet than we lost last year." For despite a sophomore-and-freshman-dominated squad with good freestyle depth, strength in the individual medley and breast stroke, and improved scoring potential in the dives, backstroke, and butterfly, Harvard may have difficulty improving on its 4-3 Eastern League mark...
What clouds the Crimson's optimistic chances is the continuing improvement of the overall caliber of competition in the league. Thus Gambril's rebuilding job, while raising the level of Harvard swimming drastically, probably won't bear first-place fruit this year because the Crimson's renaissance only allows it to maintain pace with the high-powered and more established recruiting programs of Eastern and Ivy rivals Princeton, Dartmouth, Penn, and Yale. It is, as Gambril admits, "a much tougher league...
...Hugh. Let's see....Another big question has to be Don Gambril's ability to overcome a sparse him of some of his best prospects. When all those swimming standouts that he'd lined up to build his East Coast empire decided not to come to Harvard after all, his plans to make the Crimson the class of Eastern swimming were given a pretty stiff shove backwards. Now the big question is whether or not he can overcome this setback and get a better season out of his high-geared swim program than last year's 5-4 record...
...Radcliffe swimmers look strong as well. Coach Alice McCabe has most of last year's squad back again, so you have to figure them to be among the top squads in New England. And with Don Gambril bringing in a lot of big-time tactics, some of them are bound to rub off on the Radcliffe swimmers who share the same pool. The 'Cliffe mermaids definitely will be a force to consider in women's swimming circles...