Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Konno's 1.,500-meter free-style performance in whipping Australia's (and Yale's) Defending Champion John Marshall in meet record time of 18:15.5, breaking Marshall's record by more than three seconds. Hawaii's wiry (5 ft. 7 in., 145-lb.) star, who swims for Ohio State, edged the U.S.'s (and Yale's) 1948 Olympic winner, Jimmy McLane, by six feet, Marshall by 60. Konno also won the 440, placed third...
...Dick Cleveland's winning sprint in the 50-yd. free style in 0:22.3, two-tenths off the American record, and his second place in the 100, behind Michigan's defending champion, Clark Scholes. Cleveland, another Hawaiian who swims for Ohio State, "will win the Olympic loo-meter this summer," according to enthusiastic Mike Peppe, Ohio State and Olympic coach...
Pete Dillingham, the Crimson's lone entry, flubbed only one dive in both the one and three meter events in the A.A.U. national indoor swimming championships this weekend, but that was enough to eliminate him in the preliminaries both times. Skip Browning of Texas swept both events getting 619 points in the three meters and 534.55 in the one meter to assure him top place of the Olympic prospects. Bob Kiphuth's New Haven Swim Club, composed of Yale freshmen, varsity, and alumni swimmers, won the team championship for the second year in succession...
...seven Crimson swimmers who left yesterday for the N.C.A.A. championships at Princeton saw Yale's "undefeatable" swimmers Jimmy McLane and defending champion John Marshall defeated last night by Ohio State's outstanding freshman, Ford Konno, in the 1,500 meter freestyle event...
...Yale's John Marshall, Australian Olympic swimmer, the Eastern Intercollegiate 1,500-meter and 220-yard titles; at New Haven. In his bid to keep his "triple title, Marshall was edged by his roommate Wayne Moore, by a stroke, in the 440-yard event...