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Despite the lopsided score, the outcome wasn't certain until near the end of the contest. Springfield jumped off to an early lead by running away from Harvard in the first event, the 400-yard medley relay. The Crimson quartet of Reisen, Gaffin, Graham, and Brandling-Bennet was no match for a Maroon team anchored by free-styler skoog...
...diver, did not compete, and Jay Shelton, who showed great promise with the freshmen last year, made costly mistakes on two dives. With Kaufmann out of the backstroke race, Springfield's Bill Stearns was able to squeeze out a victory over the Crimson's Dave Bennett and Dave Reisen...
...After Reisen and Bennett came through for a Crimson sweep in the backstroke--an event in which Harvard has been notoriously weak--Chadsey mathematically eliminated the Bulldogs in the breast-stroke when he led teammate Don Kohla to a 1-2 finish in 2:27.2. But his time was considerably slower than the freshman record of 2:25.7 he set earlier this year...
...high point of the season was the Yale meet. Records fell starting with the first event, as the Bulldog team of Miguel Garcia, John Howells, Mike Austin, and Dave Weeks surged past the Crimson entry of Dave Reisen, Bob Dillworth, Mike Reiss and Frank Wood for a first place time of 3:59.6 and a new Yale freshman record. Captain Bob Price, an outstanding butterfly man (55.2 for the hundred against Dartmouth), might have made the difference for the Crimson, but he has been sidelined with mononucleosis since the Dartmouth meet...
...Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation . . . We are musical anarchists." Thus Cornetist Nick LaRocca defined the new music he and other members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band had played at Reisen-weber's restaurant in Manhattan during World War I. When word about the shocking doings at Reisenweber's got to the Victor Talking Machine Co., the Dix-Jelanders were asked to come up and cut two sides. They blared two of their liveliest numbers-Livery Stable Blues and Dixie Jazz Band One-Step-into an eightinch acoustical horn, and thus became...