Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around the track, Ralph Doubell has the distracted look of a man talking to himself. And so he is. To ease the loneliness of a distance runner, the Australian ace provides his own moment-to-moment commentary and, when need be, his own cheering section. Late in the 800-meter finals of the 1968 Olympics, for instance, Doubell told Doubell: "You're going to win! You can feel it in your muscles!" Then, as he took the lead coming down the stretch, he shouted to himself: "You've won it! You've won it!" Doubell professes...
Again, the Crimson narrowed the gap on Krause's triumph in the 500-free ?4:57.00. only to have the Tigers sweep the next event-the breaststroke. That pretty much settled matters, for Harvard needed a nearly-impossible sweep in he three-meter diving and a win in the final relay to overcome the Tigers...
...Dartmouth favored, if the Crimson is so strong in the first few events? It is hard to know why, but one of the reasons is diver Mike Brown, who was Eastern champion on the one-meter board last winter. He has been having an excellent year, and Harvard's Dave Silver and Tom Wallace will have a tough time trying to match him today. "If we get a split in the dives, we're golden," Cahalan said. "But if we lose both, we're in trouble," he added...
Dartmouth, however, barely escaped losing last weekend, winning its meet with Princeton by only one point. Inaccurate scoring, discovered too late to be changed, gave the Indians' Mike Brown a victory in the one-meter dive, though the actual winner was Princeton's John Huff stutler...
...points, and he was right. Ken Light, Cornell's excellent sophomore diver, was first at both heights. Teammates Tim Millhiser and Matt Leone picked up third-place points. Dave Silver, who is doing a good job of filling the shoes of Bill Murphy, earned seconds in both the one-meter and three-meter to prevent Cornell sweeps...