Word: relayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many second and third positions. Charley Gabeler took the 50-yard free style in the time of 25.6 sec.; Captain John Eusden followed with a first in the 100-yard free style in 56.2 sec. After Bill Hewes won the fancy diving, the '44 200-yard free style relay team of Ed Stevens, Dave Barnes, Gabeler, and Eusden flashed across the finish line first in the time of 1 min., 43sec...
...Saturday afternoon, and an inspired group of Tigers toppled Harvard from the undefeated ranks with a 40 to 35 victory. It was a meet full of close finishes, good times, and upsets, but in the end Princeton unexpectedly had the necessary strength in the sprints to cop the final relay in 3:38.6, almost two yards ahead of Harvard and sparkling time for the notoriously slow Nassau pool...
Small Tom Sullivan and Sophomore Bill Crawford, the latter only swimming for his second year, were responsible for the Princeton relay triumph. Leadoff man Sullivan did about 54 flat and picked up a yard and a half on Tom Shrewsbury, and John Clark tacked on another yard to this margin against Lonnie Stowell. Frannie Powers wiped out all of the deficit against Ned Parke and gave Art Bosworth a lead of about one foot, but the tired Bosworth was unable to keep up with Crawford--he was close to 53 flat...
Even with Ned Parke at his best Harvard is a very slight favorite and should win in the final relay. The Ulenmen may even...
Captain Don Donahue was the outstanding Harvard performer, winning both high and low hurdles and garnering 10 points all by himself. Donald Main, who won the mile run by a fifty year margin, and whose spurt won the two-mile relay, starred for Yale...