Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swimmer Mann could swim so well that he was hired to coach at Yale, Harvard, Syracuse, Navy and almost every athletic club that had a pool, finally took over swimming at the University of Michigan in 1926. Instructor Kiphuth, in the meantime, had been expounding his theories on body-building with such success that he was appointed swimming coach at Yale. When the 1936 Olympic Games came around, Yale's Kiphuth was named coach of a U. S. swimming team for the third time and his feat of twelve years without defeat in a collegiate dual meet was proclaimed...
This did not please Michigan's Mann. Nor did it please Michigan rooters, because while Yale had been piling up a notable record* in the East, Michigan had won eight out of ten Big Ten championships, seven National Collegiate championships...
Yale, indeed, had defeated Michigan twice (1928 and 1930) during its long winning streak, but Michigan had more recently defeated Yale in intercollegiate meets...
...long last, last week, Yale met Michigan at New Haven. In its magnificent Payne Whitney natatorium, Yale lined up a green but well-rounded team, which had chalked up nine victories and no defeats this season. Michigan's team, also undefeated, was rated better. It included Tom Haynie, generally considered the best all-round college swimmer in the U. S., and Ed Kirar, intercollegiate sprint champion. As might have been expected, Michigan won, but only after the score had been tied three times and finally clinched (41-to-34) in the very last event on the program when Michigan...
...legendary as his dress and habits is Bill McGovern's learning. He wrote a book on Japanese grammar, speaks twelve languages, is said to know more about John Galsworthy than the university's English department. Once University of Michigan's famed Pundit Jesse Siddall Reeves, fresh from a survey of the South American Chaco affair, went to lunch in Evanston's University Club, was soon questioning Bill McGovern for further in formation. Bill McGovern is now busy teaching Chinese to his four-year-old son. A friend gave him a bottle of Napoleon brandy...