Word: legging
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Princeton, with its four 200-yd. freestyle finalists, seemed unbeatable in the distance relay, but Harvard's Bobby Hackett grabbed a five-yard lead on the opening leg and his teammates (Julian Mack, Jack Gauthier and Mike Coglin) staved off a late Princeton challenge to win by the slimmest of margins, 6:41.84 to 6:41.87. Both teams' performances qualified them for the NCAA meet March 22-24 in Cleveland. [Related story at right...
...first event was even more successful in terms of points for the Crimson than the final one. Ron Raikula, Mike Coglin and Tim Maximoff all put together strong finishing legs in the 400-yd. individual medley to finish first, second and fourth, respectively. Raikula, who ranked among the top twenty in the world in the metric equivalent of this event this past summer, said afterwards, "After the butterfly, I though I was out of it. Then, on the fourth leg of breaststroke, I looked over and was surprised to see that no one was really ahead...
Farley, himself a former middle-distance man and an American medal winner at the 1964 Olympics, said yesterday "a good middle-distance man that can move up or down. The same guy can swim the 500 or 1650 and then come right back and give you a solid leg on one of the relays...
...three finish by two members of their stable of distance thoroughbreds, junior Andy Saltzman and freshman Craig Peterson. But while those two were leading the rest of the pack from the outside lanes, sophomore sensation Andy "Beaver" O'Hara--the man who upset Hackett on the last leg of the 400-yd. freestyle relay to win the meet for Princeton a year ago--was struggling to a surprisingly weak eighth place finish in lane five...
...Crimson, however, made much of the lone relay opportunity, with Sarah Linsley, Kat Taylor, Terese Sellers and LeAnne Rozelle (on the anchor leg) finishing in a school record time of 9:25, good for second place behind Rhode Island...