Word: schaper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown supporters that packed the pool balcony in the Indoor Athletic Building went properly berserk with joy. Bruin Coach Leo Barry's bald pate glistened with glory as he cavorted in the pool after his team had celebrated the victory by the traditional coach-ducking rite. George Gibbons, Bob Schaper, and Matt Soltysiak, the Bruin heroes, were mobbed by wildly enthusiastic teammates, and a squadron of reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through it all,--the quarter-mile race that clinched the meet for Brown, the ovation that followed it, and the tiring session with representatives of the press afterwards...
...Bruins are depending on Bob Schaper, captain of last year's Freshman squad, in the sprints, Matt Soltysiak, the greatest all-around swimmer in Brown's history, in the breastroke or free-style, and Bud Wilcox, New England record-holder in the 150 yard backstroke, in the dorsal events...
Sports commentators have ranked the Brown tankmen on a par with the Ulenmen and point to the Bruins' two speed kings, Matt Soltysiak and Bob schaper as convincing reasons why Harvard may not extend its consecutive victories to 29. Soltysiak defeated Dario Berizzi '38 last year in the 200 breastroke in 2.31, a time which Max Kraus, present breastroker, cannot hope to equal. The Providence swimmer is also good for under 2:20 in the 220, and is sure to place in any other freestyle event...
...Schaper Outstanding Sprint...
...Schaper, sophomore sprinter, starred against Dartmouth last week, winning the 50 and 100 in 24 flat and 55.1 respectively, times which Lonnie and Harley Stowell, Crimson sprinters, have not equaled so far. Former intercollegiate record-holder Graham Cummin '38 was pressed to the limit last year by Bud Wilcox, Bruin backstroker. He is known to be good for just under 1:40 in the 150-yard event, so Art Bosworth will have to swim his best time ever in order to keep...