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Tomorrow's Harvard-Yale swimming extravaganza takes on added importance because of the impending retirement of two giants from the coaching scene. Both Crimson varsity mentor Hal Ulen and the Elis' Bob Kiphuth will coach the final dual meets of their careers when the two teams vie for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League championship...
Even partisanship cannot discount the work of Yale's head swimming coach at New Haven since 1918. He was also Director of Athletics there from 1946 to 1949, and head coach of four American Olympic swimming teams. Kiphuth's squads have a present streak of 181 consecutive dual meets, not having lost since the Army meet of 1945. In all, his teams have won 507 and lost a mere 12 dual contests...
...stern taskmaster. Kiphuth demands all-out effort, is apt to roar at a swimmer dawdling through his paces: "If you want to take a bath, get a cake of soap." During a hopping exercise, the coach scowled scornfully at a boy who had twisted an ankle, barked: "Get up and hop on the good one." But his swimmers like him. Says one: "A wishy-washy coach who sympathizes with you is no damn good...
Exploded Theory. Because Kiphuth feels he can coach better from poolside than by getting into the water with his boys, the legend for years was that he could not swim a stroke. The little (5 ft. 7 in.) wiry man with the booming voice refuted the story at the Yale swimming carnival of 1948 when he abruptly leaped into the pool, swam its width to resounding cheers. Once he went to the bottom of the pool in a diving helmet for a fish-eye view, quickly corrected a flaw in the stroke of one of his swimmers...
Yale has not been beaten in dual swimming meets since 1945, when a war-depleted team lost to Army. Last week Kiphuth was in his accustomed spot at poolside as his charges walloped Columbia 57-29-Yale's 176th consecutive dual-meet victory, and notable only for the fact that it surpassed Kiphuth's own earlier record of 175 consecutive victories set between 1924 and 1937. But a sadder milestone faces Kiphuth. He has reached Yale's mandatory retirement age of 68, will be forced to retire at the end of this season. Phil Moriarty. a trusted...