Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday's Results...
Despite the festive atmosphere, the nerve-racking suspense that has characterized the final night of Easterns in so many years past was just about absent Saturday evening after the Crimson had virtually sewn up the meet with its performance at the trials earlier...
...could see it in the eyes and hear it in the screaming voices of the more than 1000 heavily partisan fans who packed steaming Blodgett Pool on Saturday night. The feeling grew as you watched the steady parade of Crimson aquamen to the medals stand...
Harvard had at least one swimmer in the championship final of every event on Saturday. (Friday night's 100-yd. breaststroke final was the only championship heat in the meet with no Crimson competitors.) In some contests, it had a lot more than that...
...such race was Saturday's opener, the 1650-yd. freestyle. Crimson sophomore Bobby Hackett, who won a silver medal in the metric equivalent of this event (1500 meters) at the Montreal Olympics, motored to the gold in this grueling race despite being so sick that he required smelling salts at the finish. Hackett's winning time reflected his weakened condition--he went 15:30.37 compared to his personal best...