Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event at last year's Eastern Championship Meet, the 4x200 freestyle relay, stands out as the watershed in the swimming program...
...challenges await: a mid-February dual meet with perennial national power Indiana; the defense of Harvard's Eastern League and Eastern Seaboard Championship titles; and an opportunity, in the friendly atmosphere of Blodgett Pool, to improve upon last season's 13th place NCAA finish...
Harvard had taken a 40-point lead during the meet's first day, but the Tigers--on the strength of their freestyle depth--had clawed their way back into contention. The fact that Princeton featured four of the meet's top eight 200-freestylers competing on their relay team seemed to guarantee a win for the Tigers in that event, the momentum from which they hoped would carry them to victory on the third and final...
...jump from the Eastern champions to NCAA title contenders is a very big one. No squad can reasonably expect to challenge the country's swimming superpowers at the NCAA meet unless it is challenged consistently throughout the season. Likewise, the several potential Olympians on the Crimson squad need head-to-head competition with their peers if they are to earn the right to participate in next summer's Moscow Olympics...
...there will be another treat at Blodgett this February. Bernal has persuaded Doc Councilman, the swimming czar at Indiana University who has produced more Olympians than any other American coach--Mark Spitz et al.--to bring his charges to Cambridge for a dual meet soon after second semester begins...