Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather easy victory, the Crimson swimming team downed Brown 50 to 36 as Jim Stanley set a new University 200-yard breast stroke record of 2:27.6. This barely breaks his old mark of 2:27.7 set in last year's Penn meet...
Even without the services of Captain John Hammond--still out with sinus trouble and resting for the Yale meet--the varsity will use its usual lineup. Hunter and Jim Stanley will swim the sprints and breast stroke respectively, while Bill Schellstede will swim in the butterfly...
...expected, Princeton swept the 220 yd. free-style, the 440 yd. free-style, the 200 yd. back stroke, and the diving competition. George Brakely took the 220 in 2:15.7, and the 440 in 4:57.0, while Art Smith won the 200 back stroke in 2:18.9 and the 440 in 4:57.0. Al Routh in an excellent performance gave Princeton its final first place with 81.53 points in the dive...
McCartney took first place in the 200 yd. breast stroke, followed by Jim Stanley. The latter had just taken a second in the butterfly, subbing for Hammond. Finally, the team of Dave Seaton, John Trainer, Fred Cooley, and Koni Ulbrich won the 400 yd. relay...
Exploded Theory. Because Kiphuth feels he can coach better from poolside than by getting into the water with his boys, the legend for years was that he could not swim a stroke. The little (5 ft. 7 in.) wiry man with the booming voice refuted the story at the Yale swimming carnival of 1948 when he abruptly leaped into the pool, swam its width to resounding cheers. Once he went to the bottom of the pool in a diving helmet for a fish-eye view, quickly corrected a flaw in the stroke of one of his swimmers...