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...Peter Tetlow has been spectacular so far this year, setting two University records in the 500 freestyle and 1000-yard freestyle with two marks that rank among the country's best this winter. But these two swimmers don't comprise the entire team. Backstroker Tom Wolfe, junior Dave Brumwell, sprinter Tim Neville, and captain freestyler Fred Mitchell each contributed key wins in the Princeton meet, and a host of others supplied vital second- and third-place points...
...track, assistant coach Bob Hunt has been working frantically to do something about challenging the Army sprint and hurdle strength. Alan Yates emerged this week as the number-one Harvard sprinter, but he will have tough competition from Army's Marshall Best, one of the top sprinters in the East...
...other events, sophomores are expected to provide much of the scoring punch for the Big Green. Mark Stebbins, a freestyle sprinter, backstroker Kim Windreth, and breaststroke specialists Paul Cane and Dave Magnus all enjoyed outstanding freshman seasons. Tim Hable in freestyle and Ted Pollard in breaststroke are this year's top freshman prospects...
...students of form in the 100-yd. dash, Sprinter Steven Williams comes on in races with all the grace of a commuter chasing the morning train. While his competitors jackrabbit away from the starting blocks, Williams usually lags behind, frantically trying to rev up the spidery legs on his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. Instead of pounding machine-like down the track, he jitterbugs unevenly, his shoulders performing a dance of their own. "One must understand track," marvels Fellow Sprinter Herb Washington, "to understand how one can make as many mistakes as Steve Williams...
Rare Versatility. The son of a Bronx postal worker, Williams got some early training as a sprinter on New York City streets. "We used to have a thing on my block where all the kids would try to catch the ice-cream truck as it was driving away and open the back door," Williams recalls. "I was usually the first one there." In high school he concentrated on the quarter-mile event, running sprints only occasionally. He began to shift that emphasis when, in only his third competitive 100-yd. dash, he equaled a New York State high school record...