Word: medica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Medica, of the University of Washington, one-half of the most famous arch-rivalry in the history of swimming, arrived in Cambridge yesterday and worked out in the Harvard Pool in preparation for the coming National Collegiate Swimming Championships, to be held here on Friday and Saturday...
...Swimming Coach Steve Forsyth, who developed Katherine Rawls. By 1931, he had broken his first national record (1,650 yd. free style). He was on the Olympic team in 1932. In 1933, he won the 500-yd. national indoor free style championship against Seattle's famed Jack Medica. At the outdoor meet that summer, he scored 16 points singlehanded. After that he deserted Coach Forsyth, sank into oblivion. He joined Coach Forsyth again this winter, trained faithfully for last week's meet. Last week, after the Miami Biltmore meet, he flew to Nassau for the British Colonial meet...
...jumped Dr. Torald Hermann Sollmann, 60, professor of pharmacology & materia medica and dean of Western Reserve University Medical School to sneer that Professor Bancroft's experiments on rabbits and chickens were not sound. "How many of your associates are taking sodium rhodanate?" bantered Professor Francis Gano Benedict, 64, Carnegie Institution nutritionist...
Another protégé of Coach Daughters is University of Washington's amazing Jack Medica, who, at the A. A. U. men's championships at Chicago month ago, broke the world's record for the mile in 20:57.8. smashing the records for the 350, 1,100 and 1,320-yd. distances on his way. At 19, he now holds seven world and eleven U. S. records. Son of an Italian office clerk, Swimmer Medica likes spaghetti, milk, beer. Excessively lazy, he walks as little as possible on his way to and from practice, lies dozing beside the pool until called...
...swimming team: the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship, for the fifth time in the last eight years; with 30 points to Southern California's 19, Yale's and Washington's 15; in Ohio State's $325,000 white ceramic-tiled pool; at Columbus. Jack Medica, University of Washington sophomore, won three individual championships (1500-metre, 220-yd. and 440-yd. free-style), set a new world's record...