Word: kojac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward E. Stowell '34, captain of the Varsity swimming team, will attempt to make a new world's record for the 220 yard backstroke in the Indoor Athletic Building pool at 5.15 o'clock this afternoon. The present mark is 2 minutes, 32 1-5 seconds made by Kojac of Rutgers in the Yale pool on June...
Toward the end of the meet, officials began to wonder what had become of George Kojac, Olympic backstroke champion in 1928. When he failed to appear, Olympic Coach Robert J. H. Kiphuth announced angrily: "Kojac is in hiding somewhere. He will be given no special consideration. . . . He is out." Presently George Kojac allowed his whereabouts to be known. He was working as counselor in a New York boys' camp, lacked funds to compete in this year's Olympics. The race he might have won, the 100-metre back stroke, went to 16-year-old Danny Zehr of Fort...
Syracuse's outstanding performer was Wohl, who finished the 150-yard back stroke with a time of 1 min., 46 sec., three seconds faster than that of White, Brown swimmer, and eight seconds short of the pool record set by Kojac of Rutgers...
...hundred and fifty-yard backstroke Won by George Kojac (Rutgers); second, Lowell Marsh (Minnesotta); third, R. Hinch (Northwestern); fourth, N. P. Arnold (Brown). Time--1m., 38s. (new national intercollegiate and world's record...
...hundred and fifty-yard medley swim Won by George Kojac (Rutgers); second August Harms (Fordham); third, John Merriam (Pennsylvania); fourth, Frank Booth (Stanford). Time--1m., 40 3-5s. (new national collegiate record...