Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaten Yale exactly twice in 23 years under Ulen--in 1937 (breaking an Eli dual meet streak of 163) and again in 1938. As of last weekend the Yalies were working on a new streak of 82 wins. And two years ago, in a listing of the beat swimming teams in America, first was the Yale freshman squad, second the Yale varsity, and third the New Haven Swim Club (Yale graduates...
Unfortunately, the Yale story is not so much one of tradition as it is of bursary jobs, scholarships, and interested (and well-heeled) alumni. Passing these by, it is difficult to see how tradition--the desire to swim under as good a coach as Ulen--could build up a finer swimming team than Harvard has today. But the world champions with a certain minimum of intelligence still go, or are sent, to Yale, and the rest are sent to Ohio State...
Outside of the record-breaking final relay, the evening's most exciting race was the 440-yard free-style swim, in which Dick Fouquet managed to pull out early, keep just ahead of Columbia's big John Wuorinen...
...cartoons, by Gifford, Charles Robinson, and Sadri Khan, are mediocre at best. As for the reprints, none of them is even worth printing. In fact, one full page cartoon, which shows a man learning to swim in an empty pool, is undoubtedly the worst piece in the issue. The Poem Back Bay runs a close second...
...Fall River, Mass., ig-year-old Shirley May France, who tried without success to swim from France to England two years ago, was having better luck on another channel: as a teen-age disk jockey on radio station WSAR...