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Over the weekend. Schramm and Greacen contributed 63 points to the Crimson cause. Greacen finished third in both the one-and the three-meter contests while Schramm took second in the lowboard and fifth in the highboard events. Princeton had no divers entered. Harvard's margin of victory...
Greacen, in the meantime, put on quite a show of his own. His reverse dive from the highboard on the last night earned him a nine-and-one-half from one judge and at least eights from all the others...
Hawk topped Mahoney by three points in last year's dual meet, though Mahoney came back to beat him in the Eastern highboard championships...
...technique that tamed sport parachuting, according to Istel, is sky diving, in which the jumper controls his body as he hurtles toward earth before pulling his ripcord. The skillful sky diver leaves the plane spread-eagled, looking somewhat like a highboard swan diver, his body horizontal. Despite falling speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open...
Last year's shining light was sophomore Pete Dillingham, who gave up football for diving, won the Eastern Intercollegiate highboard competition, and placed in the nationals. With his help, Ulen's team swept over eight opponents, but might as well have dog-paddled as the Marshalls, Moores, and McLanes of Old Eli splashed...