Word: highboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they do, it'll be hard to forecast the outcome. One thing is pretty sure. If Harvard does win, probably anyone around the Rutgers pool after the meet will be able to persuade Coach Ulen to do a dynamic one and one-half gainor, lay-out, off the highboard. It is rumored that Hal does this every time his team wins a National crown...
...last week ten national indoor championships and two world's records. Individual titles: 300-yd. medley - Katherine Rawls 100-yd. free-style-Olive McKean Low-board dive-Katherine Rawls 100-yd. breast-stroke-Doris Shimman 220-yd. free-style - Lenore Kight 100-yd. back-stroke-Eleanor Holm Jarrett Highboard dive-Dorothy Poynton 500-yd. free-style - Lenore Kight...
...backstroke, 100 yd. free-style- was 4:12.2 (2.6 faster than her own world's record). The other world's record was Mrs. Jarrett's 1:10.4 in the 100-yd. backstroke, more than six seconds faster than her best previous official time. In the highboard dive, Minnow Rawls placed second to Dorothy Poynton. She beat Miss Poynton narrowly in the low-board event, after her opponent's final dive, a running front jackknife with a half twist, caught the judges' eyes...
...with a new world's record of 4:14.4; at the Women's National A. A. U. Championships, in Buffalo. Other titleholders: Lenore Kight, 100-yd., 220-yd., and 500-yd. free style; Margaret Hoffman, 100-yd. breast stroke.; Joan McSheehy, 100-yd. back stroke; Dorothy Poynton, highboard diving...