Word: steppe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swimming team will find it harder to make replacements, but it is ready for a good try at it, says Howin Stepp, the coach. The Tigers lost Dick Hough, their record-holding breast stroker, but Ned Parke, who competed in the freestyle events last year--and did very well at them, too--may be rushed into the breach. He originally was a breast stroker, holder of the national interscholastic title at 100 yards while at Lawrenceville. But there are also two Sophomores ready for this event-Bill price and Stewart Pach...
...Portland, Ore., Sports Editor Billy Stepp described racing greyhounds as "beetles," "pigs." An indignant breeder filed a $20,000 libel action...
Said Tiger Coach Howie Stepp after the meet, "Harvard has the greatest swimming team I've ever seen. It will win the league championship without trouble. The only consolation we have will be in laying for you next year...
Ample consolation for Stepp this year, though, was the unofficial time for Princeton's disqualified 300-yard medley relay team. 2:53.5 was the clocking, a world's record, invalid because Al Van de Weghe, Tiger backstroker, failed to touch the wall with his hand as he negotiated a somersault turn in the first leg. The Nassan mermen were rather bitter about the ruling, for Van de Weghe, is notorious for touching as much as two feet below the surface, a practice which makes it very difficult for the judge on turns to see what's going...