Word: swam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressive Freshmen team broke two collage Freshmen records in an easy 58-28 win over Exeter. The 200-yard medley relay team of Norris, Eisenbrey, Bill Zentgraff, Fred Elizalde, and Bob Kaufman swam a 1:47.6 and Henry Southall swam a 2:00.2 in the 200-yard freestyle...
Record breakers in the freshman romp were Fred Elizalde who swam the 100-yard butterfly in 57.7 sec., freestyler Harry Southall, who swam 200 yards in 2:01.3, and Captain Bob Kaufmann, who did the 100-yard backstroke...
...islands. When a school was sighted, the bureau's boats ran a 1,200-ft. length of perforated polyethylene pipe out into the channel. Air pumped into the hose by a compressor bubbled out through the holes. When the herring came to the white curtain, they turned aside, swam along it into the trap...
...when the vanguard of 1,100 hot-eyed Caribbean revolutionaries set out in a ship from Cuba's eastern coast, bound east to invade Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic, idealistic Fidel Castro was aboard. Cuban gunboats intercepted the rebels and Castro swam three miles to shore, his Tommy gun still on his back. He turned to law, defended a few friends in political trouble, a few farmers evicted from their plots; he honeymooned in New York with his bride Mirtha. fathered a son named Fidel, settled down in Havana. At 2:43 on the morning...
...varsity swam without three of its stalwarts--Captain John Hammond, Jim Stanley, and Dick Seaton, who all were too sick to swim. Additionally, Brooks used only one Crimson contender in four events, thus preventing any possible second and third place finishes in these races...