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This fall the mermen will be divided into a Varsity and Junior Varsity, the former Freshman squad being abandoned since first-year men may now participate in Varsity athletics...
...preliminary meeting of the swimming team, 120 students, both Freshmen and Upperclassmen, turned out yesterday to reserve Instructions for fall practice. Coach Hal Ulen described the training the mermen will receive before actually taking to the water...
Nearly 150 of the nation's top mermen, representing 29 different colleges, have entered the meet. Such is the caliber of every swimmer who has been entered that it is virtually impossible to foresee, with any degree of accuracy, exactly who will be the individual star or what records will be broken during the two-day competition...
Never in the past 18 years have the Elis walked off with the mythical crown, but, if the times which the Blue mermen have written into the record books so far this season are any indication, this year might well be considered...
Having set a world's record at Michigan in the 400-yard freestyle relay of 3:27 and a fraction, the Blue mermen can field a quartet in this event which is about the best advance bet in the meet. Bob Kiphuth can choose four of the nine men he has entered and beat any other relay team to the finish by several seconds. Princeton's group of Sullivan, Jones, Bernabei and Clark is probably good for about a 3:35 effort, however, while Worthem, Storrs, Feldman and Noble have done 3:37 for Dartmouth...