Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three days and three nights of see-saw competition between the previously unbeaten Harvard aquamen and their none-too-genial host, Princeton, the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Championship hinged on one race, the concluding 400-yd. freestyle relay...
Harvard began Saturday's competition 16 points ahead of the Tigers. The bulge would have been bigger but for the disqualification of the Crimson's 400-yd. medley-relay team on the first day of the meet, costing the Crimson an invaluable 32 points...
That set the stage for Princeton's meet-clinching victory in the free relay. A phenomenal 45.7-second third leg by Tiger freshman Charles Norelli established the lead that Yntema could not overcome...
...hard to say what stood between Harvard and the championship. Eight points, certainly, but what else? Four gulps of water, maybe, that cost the Crimson a disqualification and 32 points in the medley relay on the opening day of competition. Or maybe it was the second place finish in the 400 free relay in the last race Saturday that found Princeton taking first in the event--and the meet. Or maybe it was just the home crowd advantage...
...would be tempting, but quite unfair, to pin the loss on Hess Yntema's disqualification in the medley relay, since without Hess's Spitzian efforts of winning every other time he entered the water, the meet would not have been as close...