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Event 18: 400-yd. Freestyle Relay: 1. Princeton (Saltzman 45.48, Fine 45.51, O'Hara 44.89, Nelson 45.35), 3:01.23** 2. Harvard, (Mack 46.45, Cooper 46.06, Gauthier 45.52, Coglin 45.82), 3:03.90 3. Navy, 3:05.19 4. Fordham, 3:05.22 5. (tie) Dartmouth and Columbia, 3:07.56 7. Army, 3:07.66 8. Yale...
...meet. In doing so, it broke a string of six straight Easterns crowns for Bill Farley's talented Princeton brigade. Despite a rampant flu bug--that bit Harvard stars Bobby Hackett and Steve Schramm, among many others--and some incredible performances by the Tigers (most notably freestyler Andy Saltzman), Harvard amassed a total of 606 points to Princeton's 548. Army captured third place with 323 points...
...eventual winner was lanky Tiger junior Andy Saltzman, who got off the blocks last but burst past Cooper coming out of the final turn to touch first in 45.55, missing the NCAA cutoff time by .04 seconds...
...Saltzman, who later led off Princeton's victorious 400-yd. freestyle relay with a 45.48 split to make that cutoff, said he wasn't afraid that Cooper had beaten him so badly at the start of the 100: "I've been a distance swimmer my whole life, so I knew I'd get abused on the start. I just didn't think it would be by that much...
...Saltzman's triumph in the 100, coming after his upset of Hackett in the 200 free on Friday night and his silver in the 500 (behind Hackett) on Thursday, earned him a share (again, with Crimson whiz Hackett) of the Phil Moriarty Award for the meet's high individual point scorer...