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Yale's varsity roster lists some 69 swimmers, including 24 seniors (Harvard's by comparison, has 26, including two seniors), and most of them never get to swim in more than a pre-season meet or one of the Yalies' three practice pools. But this fantastic depth brings results; Yale has no fewer than 11 swimmers who can do the 200-yard freestyle in under 1:49.0, a Harvard University record earlier this year...
...never have contact on Thursdays. Usually there is a short scrimmage on Wednesday, but his week it had been limited to a five-minute defensive scrimmage. In pre-season practice we had gone 20 minutes each...
About half the teams in the Ivy League used specialized platoons this year. Yovicsin considered it, but decided not to when pre-season injuries seriously depleted his halfback and tackle corps...
After a series of inconclusive pre-season skirmishes, Harvard leaps headlong into Ivy League wrestling competition in the IAB this Saturday against Cornell, the tyrant of the league last year. The Redmen defeated all six of their Ivy opponents last season, blasting Harvard in the process...
Despite Cornell's difficulties with pre-season opposition, Pickett has no illusions about their strength. He accorded the Redmen "a slight edge" over Harvard and Columbia in the Ivy League race, followed by Yale, Penn, Princeton, and Brown. "Penn might get stronger as the season goes along," he added...