Word: swam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helping his Yale teammates to rack up their 142nd straight dual-meet victory, Australia's Rex Aubrey swam the fastest 100-yd. free style on record (49 sec.) as Yale beat Harvard...
Another Harvard record came in the 220, where Jim Jorgensen swam a 2:06.9 to break his old mark by 0.3 seconds. He was only a tenth of a second off the league mark set by Yale's John Marshall in 1951. Breen of Courtland State (2:07.8) and Dave Armstrong of Yale (2:09.5) finished second and third...
...Stanley led the Crimson representatives at the Eastern Intercollegiate swimming championships by setting a new Harvard and meet record in the 200 yard breast stroke at New Haven. Stanley swam a sensational 2:24.9 to down his long-time Yale rival Joe Koletsky...
...yard freestyle relay, the Crimson team of Koni Ulbrich, Fred Cooley, Dick Seaton, and Hunter swam its fastest time of the season--a 3:28.0, to finish a close second to Yale. In the final leg, Hunter did a 49.5, with some watches clocking him at 49.3. At any rate, his official time was only .5 seconds off Chouteau Dyer's varsity record, indicating that by his senior year, Hunter may be headed for greater heights...
...foisted his ignorance off on the Crimson swimmers, charging them with falling short when they exceeded all they had done before. For this reason, Danzig should never have written his article. That he made a fool of himself to the informed is inconsequential. That he panned some guys who swam their hearts out and succeeded eminently matters very much