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Harvard's "team of the three cripples," made up of Terri Frick (newly stretched knee ligaments suffered in the 400 IM), Kathy Davis (an injured knee which kept her from swimming anything besides backstroke and freestyle) and Maureen Gildea (tendonitis in her foot which"hurts all the time"), as well as one relatively sound Norma Barton, performed credibly, but still came up about four seconds short of the Yale quartet...
...Elis then roared back to recapture the lead by holding Harvard swimmers to only third-place finishes in both the 200 back and 400 IM...
Individual heroes should not be singled out in this contest. Lundberg, a freshman from Provo, Utah, set two school and pool records(1:51.61 in the IM and 2:00.31 for his favorite, the 200 breaststroke); Hackett established Blodgett marks in his specialities, the 200 and 500 freestyles (1:38.09 and 4:22.81); and Gauthier came through in what had been expected to be the Crimson's weakness, the sprints; but it was the emotion created by seeing each team member establishing personal best times and consistently out-dueling the highly-touted Hoosiers that carried Bernal's troops to their...
With a 15-1 lead to work with, the Crimson never had to look back. After Frick's victory in the 200 IM increased the team's lead to 21-4, however, back-to-back Huskie wins in the 100-yd. freestyle and 50-yd. backstroke shrank the lead...
Following McCloskey's 200 IM victory, Fricke infringed on territory that usually belongs to Smith, winning the 100-yd. freestyle in 57.6. Fricke also posted a win in the 50-yd. butterfly, sprinting home in a respectable 28.4 seconds...