Word: relays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andover, the '59 swimming team crushed Phillips Academy, Saturday, 47-30, with the Crimson taking first place in all events except the individual medley and the medley relay. Dick Seaton was a double winner, taking the 100 yard freestyle in 55.1 and the 200 yard freestyle in 2:05.4 Other winners for the freshmen were Edgar Walsh in the 50 freestyle, Jim Stanley in the 100 breaststroke, John Murray in the 100 backstroke, Frank Gorman in the dive, and the freestyle relay team of Murray, Washburn, Wailes, and Walsh...
...another Crimson highlight of the meet, the varsity mile relay team ran away from both Yale and Princeton to win by a quarter lap in the excellent time of 3:22.4. Al Wills, a converted miler, ran a fast third leg which opened up a big lead for anchorman Dick Wharton. Mike Robertson led off, and he was followed by French Anderson...
Actually, most attention will be focused on the mile relay in which the varsity quartet meets Yale and Princeton, whom it has heaten two straight years. Although this year the Blue has more depth than the varsity, Coach Bill McCurdy expects his team of Mike Robertson, French Anderson, Al Wills, and anchorman Dick Wharton to come through...
...mile relay, McCurdy feels that the odds are so strongly against the varsity, that he is considering seratching his entry. The varsity is in the same heat as Mauhattan and Pittsburgh, which is anchored by Arnie Sowell, the best half-miler in the country. If he does decide to enter his team, it will be composed of Jim Cairns, Phil Williams, and two others from among Otis Gates, Ken Wilson, Wharton, and Wills...
Other Crimson entries will be either Cairns, Wills, or Wharton in the Eddle Farrell Memorial 500; Jack Murphy in the high jump; Norm Bruck, Art Maye, and freshman Joe Landan in the 50-yard dash; and a freshman mile-relay team composed of Lee Barnes, Dave Brahms, Al Gordon, and Dave Gately...