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Senior co-captain of the men's swim team, and ex-Olympic star BOBBY HACKETT served as starter at the meet, where he jeopardized his standing in the House by disqualifying the Eliot Co-Ed relay at the end of the meet for a jumped start...
...freestyle Roberts swam four seconds under his lifetime best to grab second place behind teammate Countryman. In the 200-yd. free Chappell did much the same, becoming only the second swimmer in Harvard history to go under 1:40 and finishing second behind Hackett, who broke his own pool record...
After three legs of the relay, Princeton's Dan Sykes and Harvard's Chappell came to the wall in a dead heat. On the find leg it was Hackett against O'Hara, captain against captain, with only pride at stake. The pair hit the water even and matched each other stroke for stroke for 75 yards. Then the Crimson senior pulled away for a victory he called "excellent, just excellent...
Another 1-2 finish by Julian Bott and Dave Phillips in the 200-yd. backstroke clinched the Harvard win and left the 1-2 finish of Hackett and Countryman in the 500-yd. free as mere icing on the cake. The three-meter diving saw no personal bests or individual records, but Harvard still managed to sweep the top two spots in what Mule called a "clever crash contest...
...freestyle--1. Hackett (H) 1:38.6; 2. Chappell...