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...earlier this season, Princeton--which has won the championship meet for the last five years in a row--is the decided favorite. You can forget the other ten or 15 teams that will be splashing around Brown's classy pool this weekend. This is a two-team showdown: Hackett's Heroes vs. the Incredible Orange Machine...
Harvard, on the other hand, must rely on a relatively small number of truly amazing swimmers, such as Bobby Hackett, Malcolm Cooper, Julian Mack and Michael Coglin, to place in the top two or three in a few key events. The Crimson also has a huge advantage in the diving events, where all four of its solid competitors could make the finals in both events, and in the relays...
...freshmen supplied the lion's share of the team's points. Backstroker Geoff Seelen stroked 200 yards to yet another impressive victory in a time of 1:58.07. Finnish phenomenon Tuomo Kerola frogkicked to his usual 200-yd. breaststroke triumph in 2:13.57. And of course, all-world Bobby Hackett whipped the field in the 200 freestyle...
...final event of the afternoon, an all-Yardling freestyle relay of Mack, Ashwood, Dan Kiley, and Hackett ripped through the water in 3:08.85 to waste both Yale and a crew of upperclassmen teammates. More satisfying than Mack's strong leadoff time of 46.6 or Hackett's ridiculously fast split of 45.0 was the fact that the splits of both Ashwood and Kiley qualified them for Easterns in the 100-yd. freestyle...
Another freshman by the name of Bobby Hackett also captured two individual events. In one of the first races this season that the sensational Olympic medalist has failed to set some kind of record, Hackett took the 50-yd. free in 21.64. Not to be denied his quota, the Yardling superstar later ripped through the water in 1:54.58 to set a new pool record in the 200-yd. butterfly...