Word: kiphuth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explaining the move, Athletic Director Robert J. Kiphuth said that Yale health officials had advised a ban on heavy exercise for ten days to cover the normal polio incubation period. As a result, not only the Fordham game, but also a freshman game and all intramural sports will be eliminated at Yale for the next ten days...
...Kiphuth, famed Yale and Olympic coach, was more realistic: "This will shake the swimming world...
...Robert Kiphuth, Yale's varsity coach, made a grand appearance after that. Talking about the various strokes, Kiphuth called Joe Verdeur, Allan Stack, and Ray Reid from the bench. Like trained seals they stood beside the pool. When Kiphuth mentioned the breastroke. Verdeur slithered into the water and chopped it into foam while empathetic little girls on the sidelines ogled. Then Stack plunged in at the mention of the backstroke. Then Reid swam 100-yards freestyle. After a practice 150-yard medley relay, Kiphuth lined them up for a 300-yard relay. He turned from the microphone and called...
Stack got off to a poor start. Kiphuth turned away from the pool as Verdeur began his laps. Reid finished up the race and Kiphuth looked at the stopwatch, laughed, and said to those next to him, "we better leave after that." The announcer informed the assembled multitude that, although the time was excellent, "it didn't quite break the world record...
...Kiphuth's Yale swimming team swept the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League championships with a tidal wave of points in every event at Princeton Saturday night...