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Olympic silver medalist Bobby Hackett, the freshman prodigy from Yonkers, N.Y., who led the Crimson to an undefeated dual meet season and a second place finish at the Eastern Championships last month, set yet another new Harvard University record in the first event of the three day meet, the 500-yd. freestyle...
Toal, Schramm and Greacen will join a host of Harvard swimmers who have already qualified. That group includes freshmen Bobby Hackett (200-, 500- and 1650-yd. freestyles), Michael Coglin (400-yd. individual medley) and Geoff Seelen (100-yd. backstroke), junior Malcolm Cooper (50-yd. freestyle), and Harvard's 400-yd. freestyle, 800-yd. freestyle and 400-yd. medley relay teams...
Princeton's Alan Fine, whom Hackett beat in the last leg of this event to clinch last month's dual meet, swam leadoff this time and gained a slight edge over Cooper. But Pyle and Mack made up the deficit against Princeton's Howard Nelson and Andy Saltzman, to set the stage for the anchormen and Princeton's dramatic 364-356 victory...
...evening began on a high note for Harvard, which entered Saturday's third and final round of competition trailing, 226-210. In the opening event, the 1650-yd. freestyle, Hackett--who was probably the only swimmer in the meet not to shave his body hair (he's saving his shave for the NCAA meet)--set his third meet record in as many nights. The powerful Olympic silver medalist churned through the water in 15:22.80, which shattered the old record by more than 25 seconds, to win his third individual event and pick up the Phil Moriarty Award...
...Freestyle--1. Robert Hackett, Harvard, 15:22.80' 2. Christopher Hug, Brown, 15:47.02; 3. Michael Coglin, Harvard, 15:56.52; 4. Rob Maass, Princeton, 15.58.74; 5. Frank May, Fordham, 16.07.74; 6. Timothy Gladura, Army...