Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty swimmers competing in twelve events are scheduled to begin the second annual individual championships of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League at Yale's Payne Whitney Pool in New Haven this afternoon...
...yard medley relay--Won by Princeton (Al Van de Weghe, Dick Hough, Herb Moeller); second, Yale (John Burns, Ed Gesner, Bill Moonan) Time, 2 min. 54.3s (New pool record. Former record 2.55.1 made by Lake Shore...
This was that although Ned Parke, Al Van de Weghe, and Dick Hough constituted the chief opposition to the Crimson, they had a very strong ally in good old Brokaw Pool--better known as simply old Brokaw Pool. This bath, built in the days when the trudgeon was man's fastest way of cleaving the waters, is not designed for modern intercollegiate swimming as most any Princeton man will readily admit. The tank is but four lanes wide and this narrowness results in a pretty rough surface when four sprinters are making their splashy way down the lanes...
Columbia's pool is notoriously slow, Brown's is so small that only two men can swim at the same time, Penn's leaves much to be desired, swimmers have to paddle across the odd-sized Navy bath, and Yale offers a round-cornered affair with a high-diving board that frightens many a visiting leaper into a poor performance, while a high-diver at Princeton would leave his scalp on a rafter without much effort...
...upshot of it all was that the Crimson rooters left Brokaw gloomily, hoping some kind Tiger alumnus would contribute a new pool. Princeton men answered that the funds, if forthcoming, will go to a new library first...