Word: sprinters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...swimming truism that you can't have a winning team without freestylers. With four individual events and two relays dependent on the freestyle, a team without a sprinter is going to lose meets, no matter how good the rest of the squad...
Well, this year Harvard has a sprinter. His name is Bill Shrout, and last year, as a freshman, he broke five University, seven freshman, and two NCAA freshman records. Coach Bill Brooks, who goes out of his way not to play favorites, called him "the brightest swimming prospect to come to Harvard--to date...
...Selukwe high school, young Ian paid little attention to his studies, but was a champion sprinter and captain of his cricket, tennis and rugby teams. (Noted his school magazine: "Good on attack, but does not always time his passes well.") An R.A.F. fighter pilot during the war, he was shot down on a strafing mission over North Africa, escaped with a broken leg and a badly mutilated face. After plastic surgery in Cairo, he emerged with a drooping right eyelid, an immobile expression, and a brand-new face that the surgeon might almost have copied from pictures of Gary Cooper...