Word: jorgensen
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Another Harvard record came in the 220, where Jim Jorgensen swam a 2:06.9 to break his old mark by 0.3 seconds. He was only a tenth of a second off the league mark set by Yale's John Marshall in 1951. Breen of Courtland State (2:07.8) and Dave Armstrong of Yale (2:09.5) finished second and third...
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...Jorgensen (2:07.2) should take the 220, with the chief competition coming from Armstrong (2:09), Drosdick of Dartmouth (2:10), and Breen of Courtland State (2:10). The 440, however, is rated a tossup between Jorgensen and Breen, both of whom have done...
Because Danzig doesn't know swimming, or knew only what Loftus fed him, he wrote with a sneer, as if Harvard had been upset. He panned Pete Macky, Dave Hawkins, and Chouteau Dyer, barely recognized Jim Jorgensen's wide-margin records which prove his Eastern leadership and rank him among the top four in the country, and left out Gus Johnson completely. He may have been limited in space, but his greater limitation in knowledge proved more severe as he harshly and unfairly stated the Crimson...
...Jorgensen outdistanced the field in both the 220 and 440. He covered the former in 2:07.2, cutting three tenths of a second off the mark he established last week, and the latter in 4:40.5, three full seconds under the record he set in the Yale meet a year...