Word: styles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Al Vande Weghe, intercollegiate back-stroke champion, is back, but it is likely that he will be shifted to the free-style events, being replaced in the back by Mark Follanzbee, a Sophomore from Mercersburg, and Scott Scammell, a veteran...
...must be understood that the object of good swing is the creation of musical ideas ad lib that have continuity, simplicity, and sincerity (need we add, originality). Any band style of playing that aids this is therefore good; any that hinders it is bad. In the opinion of most musicians, the "stiff" or "power-house" style hinders the above, and is bad whereas the "relaxed" or "colored lag" style is the very essence of that thing swing...
...marches and other dance tunes, to remember that tempo; then from the very beginning of the record, the band proceeded to play ahead of this implied beat. Push, push, push, till the record sounds like a pile driver with St. Vitus dance. Drive is the whole object of this style of playing...
There is also a fine squad of holdovers from 1939, including Captain Sam Tator, George Jack. Bob Chapman and Lester Halpern in the free style events; George Embrick and Levick Tolan in the back stroke; Lafe Weeks in the breast stroke and Bob Logan and John Rogers in the dive...
Other lettermen returning from the squad which finished fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate League standings include Maurice Poitras, Kent and Steve Stavers, all distance men, and Berndt Lindgren, a sprinter. Outstanding Sophomore is Jack Brown, equally well at home in any free-style event, at the back, and the breast stroke. Other promising second-year men are Gunner Ohberg and Aiden Wood, sprinters, and Joe McKinley, a diver...