Word: strokers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson will be weaker in the freestyle than was expected, as Perry Stearn, free-styler on last year's team, has pneumonia. However, Oliver P. Morton, also a veteran, will be on hand for the meet, as will Harvey Pastel, diver, and Gilbert King, Jr., breast-stroker. In addition, 20 new men have turned out who will go to Tech...
Diver Ralph Buratti, barrel-chested Junior from New Brunswick, won the low board diving, but finished second from the higher board on Saturday night to Princeton's Connie Doran. Breast stroker Chuck Gantner, who butterflies all the way, was the main cog in the Scarlet's medley relay victory, and he edged Tiger Norm Zheutlin in the 200-yard breast stroke...
Coach Hal Ulen has been hampered by the loss of Captain Bill Drucker and breast-stroker Bus Curwen, who graduated, and Freshman Frank Padgett, now in the Air Corps. Ulen's son Don, will be advanced to the post of first man on the breast stroke, replacing Curwen while Freshman Johnny Loos has been promoted to the Varsity from the Jayvees...
Aquatically, Harvard loses two stars via the sheepskin route. Captain Bill Drucker, who could always be counted on for one victory in the backstroke event and who always supplied a healthy lead in the medley event, graduates, as does Bus Curwen, breast stroker, who strokes and captains the Crimson crew in his spare time. Sprinter John Eusden, a Marine-to-be, will be around for a while...
...Varsity meet should also give Crimson roofers a chance to watch more closely some of the up and coming members of the team who have not been given much notice in previous meets. One of these meremen is Merrill Stocker, whom Ulen has been grooming to take back stroker Bill Drucker's place in the event that Drucker enters graduate school next year. Another is butterfly artist Tony Myrer who, together with Don Harting, stands good chances of being Ulen's main entries in the breast stroke throughout next year's campaign...