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...tough race there's absolutely no way Mike will let someone beat him," teammate Bobby Hackett said, referring to Coglin's outstanding performance against Saltzman...
...Seaboard Swimming and Diving Championships, its first in the 17 years that team scores have been kept at the meet. In doing so, it broke a string of six straight Easterns crowns for Bill Farley's talented Princeton brigade. Despite a rampant flu bug--that bit Harvard stars Bobby Hackett and Steve Schramm, among many others--and some incredible performances by the Tigers (most notably freestyler Andy Saltzman), Harvard amassed a total of 606 points to Princeton's 548. Army captured third place with 323 points...
...such race was Saturday's opener, the 1650-yd. freestyle. Crimson sophomore Bobby Hackett, who won a silver medal in the metric equivalent of this event (1500 meters) at the Montreal Olympics, motored to the gold in this grueling race despite being so sick that he required smelling salts at the finish. Hackett's winning time reflected his weakened condition--he went 15:30.37 compared to his personal best...
Right behind the ailing but still awesome Hackett was Crimson freshman Tim Maximoff, who sailed to the silver in 15:41.12, missing the qualifying time for the NCAA championships by only a second. Harvard's Mike Coglin and Chris Hancock finished eighth and 12th, respectively, in the timed final to give the Crimson a 53-17 edge over Princeton in this event...
Saltzman's triumph in the 100, coming after his upset of Hackett in the 200 free on Friday night and his silver in the 500 (behind Hackett) on Thursday, earned him a share (again, with Crimson whiz Hackett) of the Phil Moriarty Award for the meet's high individual point scorer...