Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Bobby Hackett had taken second in the 200, and Julian Mack had won the consolation heat to grab ninth, but that is only two swimmers and you need four for a relay...
Event Eleven: 800-yd. Freestyle Relay--1. Harvard (Hackett, Mack, Gauthier, Coglin), 6:41.84. 2. Princeton (O'Hara, Peterson, Nelson, Saltzman), 6:41.87. 3. Dartmouth, 6:50.13. 4. U. Maine, 6:51.03. 5. Navy, 6:51.51. 6. Fordham, 6:57.29. 7. Yale, 6:57.66. 8. Columbia...
...Ladies and gentlemen, you have just seen what Easterns swimming is all about," the announcer at Blodgett Pool said after Harvard's roofraising victory in the Eastern Championship 800-yd: freestyle relay last night...
...quite simply can never tell what will happen next in the emotion-charged atmosphere of an Easterns meet--witness Andy Saltzman's upset of Bobby Hackett and Harvard's wild finish in the 800 free relay last night. Or consider the unfortunate fact that Geoff Seelen banged his head on the starting block while pulling himself up for the start of the 100 backstroke after looking like a shoo-in for his first Eastern gold, and consequently had to settle for a silver...
...role in the potentially decisive 400-yd. freestyle relay (the meet's last event) may well be the key to the weekend for the Crimson. Even weak memories can't help but recall the showdown that Hackett barely lost to Princeton's Andy O'Hara in the last leg of that event exactly one year...