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Crimson hopes for victory hinge largely on the performances of All-American John Pringle, the most versatile swimmer on the squad. Pringle won the individual medley, the 200-yard breast stroke and the 200-yard backstroke against the flimsy Springfield team...
...freshman meet. Harvard won all but one event to squash Springfield 72-22. The undermanned Maroon squad was unable to start more than one swimmer in many of the races. Freestyler John Quinn and butterflyer Eric Kalussman were standouts for the Yardlings
John Pringle, the best all-around swimmer on the team, was an all-American last year in the individual medley and should give the Crimson considerable strength in that event and also in the backstroke...
...with a new record of sorts: he was the first man to swim the English Channel underwater. For 18 hr. 1 min. the former U.S. Army film director submarined along 15 feet beneath the surface, accompanied by a launch and encased in a steel cage that kept the aqualunged swimmer from drifting off course. Said the feisty Floridian, who prepped for his 22-mile swim by traversing the Straits of Messina's Scylla and Charybdis: "I've given up two years of my life. I'm broke...
...special poolside event of the afternoon featured a diving exhibition, a Houdini sack act by varsity swimmer Robert J. Price '64 (he escaped from his sack after one minute of submersion), and a display of water nonsense by muscled and artificially ballasted "lassies" from Radcliffe...