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Shrout led teammate Pete Adams to a sweep of the 200-yard freestyle, as both bettered 1:50, and Shrout came back to win the 100 in 49.1. Corris led two sweeps: he and Henry Frey took the 200-yard individual medley, and Bruce Fowler followed him to the wall in the 200-yard breaststroke...
Dartmouth set out to upset the Crimson on the strength of star sprinter Brad Lindeblad. He swam the last leg of the 400-yard medley and touhed out Harvard's Jim Seubold, then tried to come back immediately and give Dartmouth a sweep in the 50-yard freestyle. But he tired on the last leg and lost second place to Bill Chase...
...Middies won three of Shrout's other specialties, the 100-and 200-yard freestyles, and the 200-yard individual medley, and trounced a psyched-out Crimson squad...
...Middles won nine of 11 events, including sweeps in the dive, 200-yard freestyle, and 200-yard backstroke. All that with their star, Eastern breaststroke champ Dallas Clarke, swimming only once and losing eight yards on his leg of the medley relay...
After the first event, the 400-yard medley relay, Coach Bill Brooks must have known it would be a long afternoon. Captain Bruce Fowler glided through the fastest 100-yard breaststroke of his life in 1:01.1 and butterflyer Neville Hayes churned through his leg in a surprising 54.1 seconds, but the Crimson blew their lead anyway on the last leg. From then on, it was a romp for Navy...