Search Details

Word: swum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Since there were four qualifying times faster than 60 seconds, the meet officials had to pick up two of the three above swimmers to complete the final round. Going by the times, Clinton should have been picked as the fifth finalist and the other two should have swum off for the sixth position. But this hardly seemed fair to Kruthers, who had beaten Clinton. So the NCAA decided to let all seven be finalists. The four fastest qualifiers would swim in one heat, and Clinton, Kruthers, and Pemberton would swim in another...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Machine Age Monkeyshines | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Dyer's time in the 100 was good enough to have won any national intercollegiate meet ever held, let alone being the fastest ever swum by a Crimson representative...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Yale Defeats Swim Team, 63-21; Aubrey Sets World 100-Yd. Mark | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Water so rough that the regular Wilson Line Boston-to-Provincetown steamer wasn't sailing didn't deter the man. For Grover wasn't going to have a boat follow along with him. "No one has ever swum a distance like that without a boat," he informed a life guard...

Author: By L.thomas Linden, | Title: A Little Fish in a Big Pond | 9/30/1955 | See Source »

Pierson College took first and second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 57.8, with winthrop's Abba Kastan close behind. His time, 57.9, was the fastest he has ever swum the distance. All four swimmers finished within four seconds of each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Defeats Pierson in I.A.B. To Win House-College Swim Title | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

Springfield's Jack Mayers dumped the Crimson's Dave Hawkins with a 1:09.2 120-yard individual medley. This cracked the 1:09.7. New England intercollegiate mark Mayers had set in his team's last meet on Jan. 28. Hawkins holds the varsity record for the event--1:32.1--swum over a course 30 yards longer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Beat Springfield, 51-33, in Fifth Straight Win | 2/10/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next