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...before. This time Dyer got an excellent start, and the smooth-stroking senior led all the way to win by a body length in the meet-record time of 49.4. Keiter, who was clocked in 50.8, finished half a length ahead of Yale's fading sprint star, Rex Aubrey...
...modified version also proved too strong for the Crimson, despite the services of Dyer. The Yale swimmers had built a lead of nearly two body lengths by the time Dyer took off on the anchor leg. In spite of a sprint that brought him within a quarter of a length of Anderson, Dyer faded slightly on the last lap and the Elis were home safe...
...After an easy victory in the 1,000-yd. run, Irishman Ron Delany of Villanova doggedly came from behind with a crowd-rousing sprint to win the exhausting two-mile event in the record time of 9:06.6, thereby became I.C-4-A's first such double winner. Olympic Champ Delany, the world's top miler, passed up his specialty to chase the extra points that came with two victories and cinched the team title for Villanova...
...drifting well off the pace. Courtney and the Pioneer Club's Harry Bright drove ahead, hoping to steal the race. But 2½-laps from the tape, Arnie's watch told him it was time. He floated wide on a turn, kicked downhill into his fluid-drive sprint, and the race was over. Sowell was almost 4 yds. in front of Courtney and still moving away when he finished. Time: 1:50.3, a new indoor record, two-tenths of a second faster than the mark made 15 years ago by the late great John Borican...
...mile, Ron Delany, the Irish Olympian out of Villanova, loafed along in fourth and fifth place, leaving the crowd to wonder whether a long bout with virus and the banquet circuit had sapped his stamina. On the next-to-last lap he kicked into his sprint and supplied the answer. Looking over his shoulder at U.C.L.A.'s Bobby Seaman, 6 yds. back, Delany...