Word: medica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shattering two world records in the 440-yard and 1500-meter free style events and setting a N.C.A.A. mark in the 220, Jack Medica of the University of Washington featured the twelfth annual championships of the National Collegiate Athletic Association held on March 29 and 30 at the Harvard pool...
...meet will be climaxed by a spectacular dual between Jack Medica, renowned University of Washington star, and Jimmy Gilhula, captain of the Southern California natators, who have come across the country to settle the question of supremacy at 220 yards, 440 yards, and 1500 meters...
...reported that Medica, while practicing in the Harvard pool during the past week, has swum world record figures; while Gilhula is at the very peak of his career, having shattered new records in practice races and wiped out several records held by Medica...
Michigan's team of 13 swimmers, headed by Tex Robertson, who may be a dark horse in the Medica-Gilhula events, comes from its fifth victory in the Big Ten Championship and are expected to carry off first honors. Yale, which has been unbeaten in eleven years of dual competition, is the only team conceded the slightest chance of turning back the powerful Wolverines...
Starting with the 500-meter swim, the Californian shattered every time up to the mile. Medica is the holder of four world's records and the claimant of another four, and in addition is the national collegiate title holder in the 220-yard, 440-yard, and the 1500-meter events...