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Harvard had a disappointing start in the afternoon qualifying heats as both captain Fred Mitchell and Rich Baughman swam slightly off their best times in the trials of the 500-yd. freestyle and were not remotely close to qualifying. John Kinsella of Indiana took the event for the third straight time, holding off a late challenge by Jack Tingley...
...Crimson rebounded in the next event, the 200-yd. individual medley, as Hess Yntema recaptured the Harvard record in the event with an excellent 1:56.37 clocking. Teammate and former record-holder Dave Brumwell swam off his best time and finished...
Dave Brumwell swam a beautiful race to take second at the Easterns in the 200-yd. breast, but his 2:10.85 clocking was only good for thirteenth ranking, and it is doubtful that he will score. The 400-yd. free relay is ranked tenth, but probably won't make it to the consolations either...
...runner-up spot. Penn's finish, however, was no fluke. It had conceded its dual meet season and unlike Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth (which finished an abysmal eighth) it had not shaved or peaked until this weekend, and it paid off as Penn swimmers, in most cases, swam a couple of seconds faster in every race...
...easy to say that diving is uninteresting or relatively unimportant, but the fact of the matter is that in order to do well in any dual meet and championships, a team must score diving points--a lesson the Crimson has been taught all year. Diving aside, Harvard swam just about as well as anyone at the meet, including Princeton. But whenever the Crimson built a small lead it was erased by the dives. In fact, the only day that Harvard held onto second was the middle one, and it is more than a coincidence that the second evening...