Word: relays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record. As a football fullback he averaged almost nine yards a carry. Tulareans have it that one team didn't even try to stop him: "They just let him through, peaceful like." In basketball, in his senior year, he averaged 18 points a game. In the West Coast relays in 1947, he won the shot, discus and high hurdles, tied for second in the high jump and ran the anchor leg on Tulare's winning relay team...
...when the loudspeaker blared out the entries for the 440 freestyle, a roar bounced off the walls of the room. Charlie Hutter was going to swim against Johnny Marciones instead of waiting for the relay...
...story goes, both Bingham and Hutter were upset, Bingham incensed, Hutter disappointed. And just before the relay race began, Hutter walked over to Kiphuth. Speaking in a mild but firm tone he told the Yale coach that someday he would prove to him that he had done the wrong thing, someday he would prove to him that he should have been on that team...
Well, the United States lost the relay to Japan by a little over a body length, and the story does not pick up again until the following fall. Hutter had been elected captain of the Harvard team and Marcionis captain of Yale, and as the swimming season progressed, it became obvious that the two rival schools had the top teams in the nation...
...Blockhouse was packed when the two teams started, and as event after event slipped by, Harvard's chances grew. A slight Harvard margin was expected to be wiped out in the longer events, and the meet was considered to be hanging on the relay...