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...Saving sprinter Wayne Andersen for the mile relay. Harvard relinquished the dash to Brown's Win Anakwa. The Crimson won the mile relay in 3.20, which set a new field house record but failed to equal the current University mark...
William Samuel Rosenberg began to attract attention as an undersized schoolboy. He became a winning sprinter "by jumping the gun without detection." Soon afterward he stopped growing. But he kept on running, and he never stopped jumping the competition. He was too tiny-5 ft. 3 in.-to compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato...
Shophomores Dan Magraw and Phil Chase also looked good, winning the 100-yard freestyle and 50-yard sprint, espectively. Bill Shrout returned to the 100-yard freestyle after spending a few meets as a sprinter and won easily. Neville Hayes continued his unbeaten skein his season in the 200-yard butterfly...
Dartmouth set out to upset the Crimson on the strength of star sprinter Brad Lindeblad. He swam the last leg of the 400-yard medley and touhed out Harvard's Jim Seubold, then tried to come back immediately and give Dartmouth a sweep in the 50-yard freestyle. But he tired on the last leg and lost second place to Bill Chase...
Last year, Harvard upset the Cadets in the medley relay and split the individual events, only to lose the freestyle races and the decisive final relay. Army won 49-46. But Army lost its magnificent sprinter, Tony Clay, and speedsters Jerry Merges and Steve Bliss, at graduation. Together, those three accounted for 24 points...