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...will be interesting to watch track coach Bill McCurdy shuffle his talent, it will be positively fascinating to watch Bill Brooks make strategy for the swimming team. He has a solid nucleus in Dan Mahoney, who may be the East's best diver, breaststroker Bruce Fowler, and medleyman Henry Frey, plus distance freestyler Dave Abramson. But Brooks inherits freestylers almost as good as Abramson in Dave's best events, the 500 and 200-yard swims. Neville Hayes swims the 500 almost as well as Abramson and Jim Seubold is better in the 200. Will Brooks make one of his freestylers...
...more impressive even than Fowler's win was Dan Mahoney's fourth place finish behind Princeton's Scott Andrews in the dive...
...Mahoney, suffering from a stone bruise that had not allowed him to practice since the Yale meet, had not originally planned to compete, and had made a belated trip to Dartmouth Friday only after the rest of the team had been shut out in Thursday's competition...
Coming off two good dives, Mahoney looked like a shoo-in for the championship as he began his approach on his third and next-to-last try. But as he vaulted for his final spring, his knees buckled under him and he crumpled onto the tip of the board, then tumbled like a rock three metres into the pool below...
...final attempt, the courageous Mahoney elected to try a forward 3 1/2 somersault, the hardest dive in the book. He scored an admirable 7 1/2 points on one judge's card, a full point better than the best score given any other dive all day. The effort earned him fourth place and a standing ovation from the crowd and established him, according to Brooks, as the best diver in the East...