Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Hawkins will swim in the 100 and 200-yard breast stroke, both of which he ought to win. Ralph Zani and Dick Stenson will join him and should do well over the shorter distance. Hawkins has broken the Crimson breast stroke record three times this year, his best effort setting an IAB pool mark of 2:15.9 against Columbia on March...
Jorgensen, in addition, will swim in the 100, along with Jack Dinsmoor, Gus Johnson, Rapperport, and Ted Whatley. Jorgensen has equalled Dave Hedberg's Crimson record for this distance with a 51.7 clocking at New Haven, but he is not credited with a tie since he placed second to a 50.3 clocking by Yale's Kerry Donovan...
...helplessly drifting Flower was only a few hundred yards from the harbor when Candido called to his sons, "Try to swim it, boys. Leave me here. I'm all right." But before the boys could reply, he slipped and fell to the deck. Without a word, Ricardo, Constantino and Manuel went to work. They seized fishing nets bordered with cork buoys and tied them securely around their father. A moment later a huge wave broke over them. On shore, the praying watchers-gave a cry, and the village priest made a sign of the Cross. Neither the Flower...
Smith can come back to swim the 440 for Yale in 4:47.6, faster than the Crimson has shown it can do. Captain Charley Egan holds the varsity's best time of 5:02.1, but Hawkins finished an inch behind Dartmouth's Joe Hust when Hut was clocked...
...will have to enter in more than two events, and most will only have to enter one. Hawkins is the varsity's top man in every event but the dive and back stroke. He can cut seconds off the relay times if he enters. But he can't possibly swim in more than three events in one meet...