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...with only a handful of races remaining before the completion of his spectacular career, Hackett and those who follow in his wake, comprising the finest collegiate swim squad in the East, seldom draw more than a few rows of dedicated spectators. Not enough to muster the applause Hackett deserves...
However, during Hackett's sophomore year, with the Crimson swimming dynasty well on its way to a second consecutive undefeated season, the once adequate number, which witnessed the former Olympian's assault on the Harvard record book while still a freshman, grew sparser by the week...
...Saturday, December 3, 1977, Hackett swam his first Harvard race in the season opener against Navy. He completed that first collegiate 200-yd. freestyle in 1:40.38 to set the first of his many University records. Since that first meet, only Hackett and sophomore Ted Chappell have covered the distance any quicker. The senior from Eliot House still holds the Harvard record, a blistering 1:36.85 set in the 1979 NCAA trials at Cleveland State, as well as three other University records for individual events...
...week later, Hackett made his first road trip and returned from West Point with an NCAA record 9:02.05 for the 1000-yd. free. If short course races--those held in 25-yd. pools instead of the 50-meter type used in international competition--were recognized, this would have been a world record...
Behind 55-51 at the start of the final race, Harvard's 400-free relay team of Malcolm Cooper, Duncan Pyle, Julian Mack and Hackett dealt the Tigers a crushing blow when they churned out a 3:05.29 to win by seven-tenths of a second...