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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...
...demonstrated in '35 at the Intercollegiates by a swimmer from Iowa who swam much faster than an ordinary breast-stroker,' said Ulen. "You can get in more leg movements than with the frog kick, so it's bound to be faster. One of my breast-strokers, "Sandy" Huston, can swim faster now with the fishtail kick." Mann's proposal has so far been regarded as illegal. The rule calls for the legs to separate and describe the same movement, but although the legs move in the same manner, they are kept together in the new kick...
...Crimson swimmers appear to be in excellent conditions, especially back-stroker Art Rosworth and Captain Cutler, and should not have too much trouble with the confident Lions, who have never beaten a Harvard swim squad. Hal Ulen's boys ought to score over 50 points in winning...