Word: swam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whatley swam in six winning relay teams. Among the other colleges he helped the varsity defeat are Princeton, Columbia, Navy, Army, and M.I.T. In the Navy meet a relay defeat would have meant the Crimson's first loss of the season...
This was the first time that the Crimson medley relay team beat Yale's Sandy Gideonse, Denny O'Connor, and Kerry Donovan this season, having lost in both the dual meet and the Easterns. The same Crimson triumvirate swam all three times...
Then, after a five-event rest, he showed that he really hadn't been pushed at all. He swam the same distance over again in 0:59.6 as the middle man on the medley relay team. The varsity and Stanford each had 14 points going into this final race. The winner would get fourth place, the loser, fifth...
Geer's time was 21:17.7. Springfield's Bill Yorzyk took first in 18:50.7, with his teammate, Bruce Hutchinson, placing second. The Crimson's Dave Hawkins beat both of these men when they swam the 220-yard free style at the IAB in the season's opener on Dec. 12. His clocking of 2:09.6 at that time set a new Crimson record which Jimmy Jorgensen broke last Saturday at Yale. Both Springfield swimmers defeated varsity captain Charley Egan and Geer in the 440 in that same meet. Yorzyk's time then...
Either Johnson, Dinsmoor, or Geer will swim second on the 400-yard relay team of Whatley, Sandler, and Rapperport. The three event limitation again prevents this from being the varsity's best entry, but Whatley swam the fastest 100 yards of his life at New Haven last week, and the quartet will not be lame...