Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the country's leading coaches predicting an unprecedented series of record breaking races to make the greatest college swimming meet ever to be held in this country, 143 representatives of 37 of the country's leading colleges will meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Harvard pool, at the Indoor Athletic Building, for the beginning of the National Collegiate Swimming Championships...
...largest and most promising fields of swimming material ever gathered together for one meet will compete in the fast pool here, praised as conducive to record-breaking races, as world records are shattered. The reported best times of the entrants are many seconds faster than the existing records...
Jack Medica, of the University of Washington, one-half of the most famous arch-rivalry in the history of swimming, arrived in Cambridge yesterday and worked out in the Harvard Pool in preparation for the coming National Collegiate Swimming Championships, to be held here on Friday and Saturday...
Jimmy Gilhula, captain of the University of Southern California swimming team and the other half of the rivalry, will arrive in Cambridge today and will likewise swim in the pool to get accustomed to the Harvard surroundings for the duel in the nationals...
These two west-coasters have established a fight for records that had its culmination last week when Gilhula, swimming in the 20-yard Southern California pool broke 16 American marks in the course of a mile's swim...