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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dyke Benjamin came close to breaking the Harvard record for the two-mile run with a time of 9 min., 25.4 sec. last Saturday in the Fourth Annual University of Connecticut Relays at Storrs, Conn. The present record for the race is 9min...
...Saturday, March 14, was the national Amateur Athletic Union meet in Raleigh, N.C. The only Crimson freshman attending the meet, Fred Elizalde, set a national junior record by winning the junior 200-yard butterfly in 2:31.0. He also holds the University record in the 200-yard butterfly, the race more usually reserved for dual meets...
...Elis had been counting on a win in the opening medley relay to start them to another victory. Hawkins placed freestyler Bill Zentgraf in the weak breaststroke position, and backstroker Eisenbrey swam freestyle, as the Yardlings won the race in 3:58.0, taking a full 8.7 seconds off the freshman record set by the regular medley relay team earlier in the season...
Yale had a chance for a tie going into the final freestyle relay, but Finlayson, Zentgraf, Eisenbrey, and Kaufmann broke their own freshman record by 9.5 seconds, winning the race in 3:28.2. Final score...
With the opening of the lightweights' racing schedule little more than four weeks away, the oarsmen face an intensive training period. The first lightweight race will be on April 18, followed a week later by the first heavyweight contest...