Word: mermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's Varsity swimmers will attempt to disprove the claim that anyone competing against Yale this year ends up as a mere "also-swam," when they meet the Blue mermen tonight at 7 o'clock in New Haven in the final dual meet of the season for both teams...
...other mermen whom the Crimson is counting on to take possible second places are Bus Curwen and Bill Drucker. Curwen will probably be entered in the breaststroke, and while he has little chance of beating Jack Meyer, he might take a second. Drucker, who might also take a second place, may well be swimming in his last Yale meet tonight, for, although only a Junior, he will probably enter Medical School next year...
That this is no idle boast may be shown by a quick glance at the records which the Eli mermen have succeeded in placing on the books during the past three months...
...John" Eusden was once again a double winner or the Varsity mermen, taking both the 50 and 100 yard free styles from David St. John, the Lions' highly-touted, ace free styles. In the 50, Eusden turned in a time of 24.3 seconds, which represents the best he has done in any meet during the present season...
...Heuber, who navigates the 50 yard free style in 23.7 seconds, a full second faster than the best time Harvard's "Big John" Eusden has turned in for that event and only eight tenths of a second slower than the world record. Other than Heuber, however, Pennsylvania, has no mermen worthy of note, and the Ulenmen should take the meet in a score which will read something like...