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Harvard's swimming team, as even the most indifferent skimmer of the sports pages may gather, is a pretty good one. The Crimson tankmen haven't dropped a meet in exactly 28 conteats over a period of almost three years, and on the evening in March 1937, when they started their string, they also shattered Yale's 13-year, 163-meet domination of Eastern aquatic competition...
...yard time down from 57 seconds in his Freshman year to a brilliant, consistent 52 seconds in the Junior and Senior years. He converted Dario Berizzi from a mediocre distance man to a crack butterfly breastroker. He helped Don Barker wend his way from the ranks of the House tankmen to eventually become a 23 second...
...notable for the many 1940 and 1939 men who have come out for the team, because most of last year's world beaters have gone, leaving opportunities galore for the non record-breakers. So far, the 1942 swimmers have shown no remarkable talent; most of the leading prop school tankmen (Mercersburg, for example) still seem to be going to Yale...
Such stellar performers as Van de Weghe, Hough, Van Oss, and Simpson of Princeton; the Brueckel brothers, Perryman, Endweiss, Good, and Burns of Yale; Vergeichik, Callahan, and Finnerty of Columbia; Williams, of Pennsylvania; Ostrander and White, Dartmouth, in addition to the Crimson tankmen...
Biggest pre-game question is the fitness of Bulldog Captain Johnny Macionis. Only recently recovered from an attack of tonsilitis, the leader of the Blue tankmen was barely able to compete against Princton Wednesday. If he is in condition, it is expected that he will swim the 220 against Bill Kendall '40, the 200 breastroke against Dario Berizzi '38, and possibly anchor leg in the 400 free-style relay...