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...afternoon in 1918, Yale's swimming coach fell suddenly ill and someone yelled at Bob Kiphuth, a young physical education instructor: "Get up there in a hurry and direct the swimming squad." Robert John Herman Kiphuth, 27, had never coached swimming before, but he got up there and started directing. He has been doing it ever since. In 41 years as coach of the Yale team. Kiphuth has amassed an unparalleled record in sport: 522 victories in dual swimming meets, only twelve defeats...
...long term at New Haven. Kiphuth produced dozens of topflight swimmers, and many were record breakers. Among them: Alan Ford, John Marshall, Jim McLane and Rex Aubrey in freestyle events. Allen Stack, Junie House and Dick Thoman in the backstroke. Tim Jecko in the butterfly...
Conditioning. Kiphuth's secret is to train his swimmers on dry land. In his early years as coach, he traveled to Sweden and Japan to study bodybuilding methods, incorporated what he observed and what he devised himself into a rigorous physical education program that all Yale swimmers must undergo before they take to the water for serious workouts. Under Kiphuth's direction, they work for weeks on weights and pulleys in Yale's immense Payne Whitney Gymnasium ("the Temple of Sweat...
...Kiphuth concentrates on the arm depressors-muscles that pull the arms down. "The arm depressors must be strengthened for best results in pulling at the catch and to push through at the finish of the stroke," he explains. "I'm a great believer in swimming with the arms." For hours on end Yale swimmers rhythmically flail their arms in Payne Whitney exercise rooms, lying on boards in swimming position and struggling with weights...
After his retirement Kiphuth plans to proceed with work on three books. He also said he would try to maintain his summer swimming program for those preparing for the Olympics and other international competitions...