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Sophomore phenomenon Jed Graef shattered the pool record, as expected, by more than three seconds to poet a time of 2:01.4. But no one expected him to heat Pringle by only a touch. The Crimson junior knocked more than four seconds from his previous best to post a time of 2:01.6, followed by Welch's third place time of 2:02.0. The event was the fastest backstroke race ever swum in dual meet competition...
...backstroke, Princeton has the best one-two punch in the East, and probably the nation, with Jed Graef and Tom Welch. Graef, only a sophomore, has already posted the second fastest 200 time in the world, a sizzling 2:00.1. Welch has not yet matched Crimson captain Bob Kaufmann's pool record of 2:03.2, but his season best of 2:03.8 makes him a threat to top it tonight...
...challenges this year. Dartmouth is another--it is also an away meet, and the Indians have the advantage of their own pool, which visiting teams find disconcerting. A third is Princeton. The Tigers, who this year boast a topnotch breaststroker in Gardiner Green and an excellent backstroker in Jed Graef, as well as the best diving in the Ivy League, could give the Crimson trouble...
YOUNG KENNEDY's eyeballs would have popped at some of the track feats at the stadium. He would have seen Harvard's Mark Mullin win the mile in 4:11.1 with teammates Jed Fitzgerald (4:12.6) and Ed Hamlin (4:13.1) placing 2-3 . . . this in the face of a headwind that chilled cheering spectators...
Sarge Nichols, Steve Cohen, and Rick deLone might manage to place in the shot put, especially if one or more of them can get over 54 ft. John Bronstein is a threat in the discus, and Jed Fitzgerald might figure in the three-mile...