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Today's events include some of Harvard's best. Last year saw the Crimson take four of the top six and five of the top 12 places in the 500-yd. freestyle. And all with Bobby Hackett suffering from a viral infection. This year a healthy Hackett figures to win the event, and he could find the friendly faces of teammates Larry Countryman, Tim Maximoff, Ted Chappell, and Andy Lockman in the finals...
Coglin also joined classmates Dan Kiley. Geoff Seelen and Hackett on that victorious 400-yd, free relay squad that ended the meet with a final movement of nostalgia in the pool that the four plus fellow senior Jon Roberts helped inaugurate in February...
Presented with a tough act to follow, senior co-captain Bobby Hackett made the first of three victory-laden appearances in the water with 9:12.12 for the 1000-yd, free. Completing the first 500 on schedule for a sub-nine-minute race, Hackett brought the crowd to its feet before tiring. While missing his goal in that race, the veteran distance man returned to post a win in the 500 free and then anchored the victorious senior four in the 400 free relay...
...While Hackett was laboring in lane seven. Bulldog Mark Loft is and Hackett's teammate Ted Chappell were more than holding up the other end of the pool. Loftis turned in a personal best at 9:18.14 with Chappell following close at his heels...
This will be the final showdown with Brian Goodell, who beat him to the gold in Montreal. Winning this--he won once previously in 1977--title, breaking nine minutes for the 1000 free, and winning at the NCAAs are Hackett's goals for his final season...