Word: hesse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, Gambril trained several Harvard swimmers, among them Hess Yntema, Tim Neville, and Rich Baughman, at the Belmont Plaza pool two summers...
When the Harvard Swim Team placed second in the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Championship two weeks ago, sophomore Hess Yntema turned in a spectacular performance winning three individual titles and almost pulling out a Harvard championship with a furious finish in the tournament's concluding 400-yard relay...
...Hess Yntema, after a fluke wave emptied into his mouth causing him to miss a stroke during the butterfly leg of the medley relay, turned in an outstanding triple, the only one of the three-day meet. He owned the 200-yd. distance, winning handily in the 200-yd. I.M., the 200-yd. freestyle, and 200-yd. butterfly, and anchoring the victorious 800-yd. free relay. Teammate Tom Wolf came within a shade of winning the 100-yd. back, in the process breaking the only record left from the pre-Gambril-Essick era, and ran away from everybody...
Sophomore Hess Yntema then nailed down his third individual championship in as many tries by blitzing the field in the 200-yd. butterfly. Peter Tetlow, swimming in his second final of the evening, captured an important fifth place...
...would be tempting, but quite unfair, to pin the loss on Hess Yntema's disqualification in the medley relay, since without Hess's Spitzian efforts of winning every other time he entered the water, the meet would not have been as close...