Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Boston saved the record in his second overtime with a bare decision over the opponent's heavyweight in the day's closest match. Bill Daughaday's win in the 165 pound class stood out in the Varsity bout, especially as it was his second fall in two weeks. Outstanding Freshman match was Dick Thomas's in the 145 pound class, with a fall in under two minutes...
Dorothy Kirby, former Southern Women's champion from Atlanta, finished second, two strokes behind Miss Berg...
...thrills of the evening started with Bud Wilcox racing Art Bosworth to a draw in the backstroke leg of the medley. Then, after Cutler and Powers had garnered first and second in the furlong, Nod Goldwasser, Junior sprinter, annexed a fighting second-place in the 50. Goldwasser's career in the pool now reads like a story-book. He has graduated from the ranks of the House swimmers to the Varsity reserves, and finally has outdone himself in first-rate competition to return a dynamic 24.4 against Brown, beating Matt Soltysiak, Bruin iron-man, for second...
...laps, but then the diminutive Bruin pulled his way even, passing Powers and leading him for the next two lengths. The Crimson swimmer made a gallant bid as he went into the last turn, and came into the homestretch wide open cutting down his opponent's lead every second, but Gibbons stood him off until the finish, winning only by a touch...
...second place to Eric Cutler that Gibbons gained was the crucial tally of the meet, for before the 440 Brown had scored 35 points, needing only a three-point second place to clinch the contest with the required 38. If Powers had won, if Crimson sprinters had placed better, if our breastrokers had been stronger--in other words if Harvard had finished one place better in any event to secure that precious single counter, the score would have been 38-37 for the Ulenmen, for the seven-point free-style relay fell to Harvard, too late...