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Ford, a slinky five-foot-niner with a head as smart as his strokes are slick, is the fair-haired boy of Coach Bob Kiphuth's Yale team. Born in Balboa, Canal Zone, he was given swimming lessons at the age of three because his parents, transplanted Illinoisans, wanted him to be more amphibious than they. By the time he was 15 he was picked for a team to represent the Canal Zone in an international swimming meet in South America. Last year, as a student at Mercersburg Academy, he caused a sensation by equaling Weissmuller's record...
This year, under Coach Kiphuth, whose swimmers have been breaking records for 25 years, Ford set out to smash the classic 51. Last week, during a dual meet with Springfield College (which Yale won, 59-to-16), he did it - by three-tenths of a second. "Some day he will do 100 under 50 flat," beamed Kiphuth...
...Harvard Fatigue Laboratory's physical fitness test has been adopted by Yale University and will soon be given to all Elis. Dr Kiphuth, Yale's physical education director, has announced that Naval R.O.T.C. students will take the exam first and all remaining men will be expected to undergo it later...
...Meanwhile, a "Yale Plan" has been worked out with Army & Navy whereby students may continue with their elected majors but add war-geared physics, math, electronics, etc. The entire student body is now obliged to take physical training three times a week under Yale Swimming and Olympic Coach Bob Kiphuth. In bull sessions, sex plays second fiddle to the Second Front...
This team is the apex of 25 years of head-coaching by Yale's great Natatutor Robert John Herman Kiphuth, whose charges in all that time have lost but three intercollegiate championship matches and nine dual meets. Swore Michigan's Coach Matt Mann: "Yale's is the greatest swimming team that has ever been gathered together. It's a truly great combination and much stronger than any of our previous Olympic teams...