Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entering its last competition before the Yale meet next Wednesday, the Varsity swimming team will face Franklin and Marshall in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool at 8.30 o'clock tonight. The visitors, with an intensive week's schedule including Yale Wednesday and Brown last night, should offer little opposition to the Crimson swimmers, except in the back-stroke event where Gordon Chalmers is slated to give Captain Ed Stowell a stiff fight for first place...
...within one-fifth of a second of breaking the World's record in the 220-yard back-stroke event, and has been clocked in a time just three-fifths of a second slower than the visiting star's for the 150-yard distance. It seems very likely that the pool record of one minute, 39 4-5 seconds made in 1930 by Kojac of Rutgers, will be broken...
Captain Ed Stowell of the Harvard swimming team fell just one-fifth of a second short of the world's record in the 220-yard backstroke, turning in a time of two minutes, 32 2-5 seconds yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool, during the intermission of the Freshman meet. The record he was trying to break was two minutes, 32 1-5 seconds, made by George Kojac in the Yale Pool...
Edward E. Stowell '34, captain of the Varsity swimming team, will attempt to make a new world's record for the 220 yard backstroke in the Indoor Athletic Building pool at 5.15 o'clock this afternoon. The present mark is 2 minutes, 32 1-5 seconds made by Kojac of Rutgers in the Yale pool on June...
...they were when he first got into the game with a top-notch professional. That was when Alfredo de Oro stopped off at St. Louis one afternoon 30 years ago for an exhibition match, and advised his practice opponent, a boy just out of short trousers, to give up pool for three-cushion billiards. After becoming the world-champion pool player, Layton did so. The diamond-shaped plates, now set in the rail of every standard billiard table, were developed from his system of studying angles. World's three-cushion billiard champion ten times, Layton's newspaper name...