Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swimming records, hardly a swimming meet is held which does not break one. Accordingly, swimming enthusiasts were less than amazed when they read last week that 27 records had been broken by U. S. swimmers in a three-day meet in the Miami Biltmore Hotel's luxurious pool at Coral Gables. More remarkable than the number of records was one of the swimmers who had made them, a 17-year-old Miami high-school boy named Ralph Flanagan. Of the 27 records Flanagan had made ten for distances from 300 yd. to 1,650 yd. His closest rival, famed...
Most directly opposed to this type of play, was James L. Pool '28, brother of the famous Beek Pool, who depended on straight, hard slashes to the front wall...
Combining, to a certain extent, the advantages of the two styles was Beekman Pool '32, who is generally considered to be the greatest squash player to come out of Harvard. Pool, the younger, combined his straight, hard-hitting front wall game with corner and drop shots to good advantage. Much like Pool in his style of play is the present intercollegiate champion, E. Rotan Sargent '36, to whom Cowles looks as the next National Champion. Sargent ran the present National champ. Neil Sullivan, to five games and is considered the most serious contender for his crown...
When the B.U. mermen enter the pool at the New Indoor Athletic Building tonight at 8.30 o'clock, they will be staring defeat full in the face for this is the year's first intercollegiate test for another of Coach Hal Ulen's super-swimming teams...
...Victor Levintritt '35, one of the best breaststrokes in the country is an other swimmer who has developed fast under the watchful eye of Coach Ulen. Coming to Harvard from the Riverside School in New York City, which, like the Swiss navy, had a swimming team but no pool, Vie was a member of the 1935 Freshman team but was ineligible his Sophomore year. He his been beaten but twice in dual competition...