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...Crimson's best swimmers will probably be too much for the Big Red. Captain Fred Mitchell is again favored in the 200-yd. free, Dave Brumwell should lead a Harvard sweep in the 200-yd. breastroke, while either Brumwell or Hess Yntema could take the 200-yd. individual medley easily. Tom Wolfe, the Harvard record holder, is another favorite in the 200-yd. backstroke...
Individual records also went crashing throughout the meet. Costin reduced her 100 free to 58.1 seconds and her 200 free to an astonishing 2:07.6. Cervilla pulled a parallel sweep in the butterfly events to set the new 50-yd. record at 29.1 seconds...
...clean sweep today and a win over Yale next week will even the Crimson's record at 8-8 and salvage the squad's roughest season. "The guys are really up for this meet," Harvard coach John Lee said yesterday. "But the meet will be no picnic...
...hopes to use his regular starting lineup in all three meets to assure a clean sweep. "I hope our guys don't suffer any injuries or tire out because these wins are important," he said. "Rutgers is good and we wrestle them last. I can't name a definite favorite because anything can happen that late...
Freshman diver Dave English may, in the final analysis, prove to be the most important member of the Harvard team. Each year Princeton parlayed a 16-2 sweep of the 1-meter and 3-meter competitions and firsts in both relays into a convincing win. This year, English appears to have a shot at splitting the two Tiger divers and thus averting another fatal 16-2 shellacking. His performances will be crucial to the team's chances of winning the meet on Princeton's territory...