Word: orschiedt
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...Orschiedt stepped in at a time when Harvard's until-then heavyweight program was nearing the crisis point. The supply of superstars that flooded the school during Don Gambril's tenure was just about running out. The previous spring, in what turned out to be Essick's last meet, a mediocre Yale team had thoroughly embarrassed the cocky Crimson. That 64-49 defeat, Harvard's first in three years, reflected the less-than-exemplary attitude of a team about to sink from the weight of its own internal problems...
...changes so manifest this season began with Pete Orschiedt. "Petie," as the swimmers affectionately called him because of his age (he graduated from the University of Florida in 1970), could communicate with the team where Essick could not. He was the prototype 'good ole boy'; Southern, funny, and refreshingly frank--he once called Yale "a bunch of chickenshits...
When the much improved, highly-touted Elis invaded Cambridge for the rematch last spring, Orschiedt's emotion-crazed charges buried them somewhere in the rusty drains of the soon-topbe obscelescent IAB pool, 87-26. The Crimson then returned the next week at the Easterns to rub it in, finishing second only to untouchable Princeton...
...Orschiedt then began diligently doing his recruiting homework, an effort that has paid off handsomely for the Crimson this year. Of all of Harvard's outstanding freshmen aquamen, only super-duper star Bobby Hackett was not recruited by Orschiedt (he decided to come to Cambridge only after his longtime coach Joe Bernal...
...minutes as the top performers in their respective events this years. Add to that crew sprinter Julian Mack and distance-man Michael Coglin, who have emerged while still in the infant stages of their college careers as two of the East's finest freestylers, and you see that Orschiedt has created a Yardling goldmine for his successor Bernal...