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Despite a scattering of illnesses, the varsity swimming team scored an easy 56-29 victory over M.I.T. in its first home meet at the I.A.B. last night. Only coach Bill Brooks' apparent decision not to maximize the scoring kept the Crimson's point total down...
...varsity's only record performance of the evening came in the hurdle event, when Joel Landau established new meet and Briggs Cage marks with a 5.2 sec. effort. High jumper Kelvin Kean missed equaling the meet standard in his event with a 6 ft., 3 in leap. The varsity also fared well in other field events, with Pat Liles winning the broad jump...
John Thomas of B.U. was the star of the Freshman meet, setting a meet record in the hurdles with a 5.3 sec. clocking, and establishing new meet, B.U., and Briggs Cage marks with an astounding 6 ft., 8 7/8 in. high jump. Yardling Ed Bailey passed the old meet standard in the weight throw, and the '62 mile relay unit bettered the existing mark by .5 sec. to complete the evening's record smashing...
...varsity swimming team should have no difficulty defeating a perennially weak M.I.T. squad in the first home meet at 8 p.m. in the I.A.B. pool tonight. Acting coach Bill Brooks does not expect a repeat of last year's perfect 72-8 score, since the Engineers are undefeated in this season's three outings...
...Brooks emphasized that such changes would not be known definitely until the time of the meet. The varsity will be strong in the breast and backstrokes, with Jim Stanley and Doug McCartney forming a strong nucleus in the former event and Gary Pildner showing himself to be a very improved backstroker...