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...case in example is Tim Chetin '73, who came to Harvard from Palo Alto High School and George Haines' Santa Clara Swim Club. Both the high school and the swim club were among the best in the nation while Tim swam for them and George Haines is internationally known for his teams, his Olympic coaching, and his world record holders. Swimming at Palo Alto and Santa Clara was an 11 month, 6 or 7 days of the week, twice a day, 8,000 to 12,000 yards a day routine...
...freshman team provided an ideal transition point in the de-emphasisation of the importance of swimming while providing the opportunity to work out, try out intercollegiate swimming, get to know one's classmates, and have a good time. Every single swimmer that swam on a freshman team, the old coaches, and the Harvard athletic administration state that a required freshman program is a good idea...
...Easterns at Yale he had an outstanding weekend, recording a fourth in the 500-yd. free, a fifth in the 200-yd. free, a seventh in the 1650-yd. free. He also swam strong legs on the Crimson 400-yd. and 800-yd. freestyle relay teams which took fifth and ninth respectively...
...records and helped to set another. Shattering the 100-yd. free mark in the afternoon prelims with a 47.407 clocking by Yale's electronic timer. Neville took fifth in the final. Later he set a new standard in the 100-yd. butterfly of 51.8, and moments after that swam a very fast 47.0 leg on the relay team which, you guessed it, established yet another Harvard record...
...extremely satisfying three days for coach Don Gambril as the team performed near perfection in an overwhelming majority of races it entered. In events where the Crimson falled to set new records it invariably swam its best times, and only Camphell and Haydon prevented Harvard from taking firsts in at least two races...