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...Ulen can manufacture in the way of a 400-yard free style relay team is not yet known. Ted Whatley, Alan Rapperport, Marv Sandler, and John Millard did 3:34.3 for the varsity, but this is far behind the 3:25.6 of Yale's Ed Howes, Brisson Wood, Mark Thoman, and John Niles. Ulen has admittedly not tipped his hand, but the Blue can also do better...
...several years Yale backstroke champion Dick Thoman made it his custom to jump into the pool last, before the other swimmers lined up to begin the race. At the start of the 100-yard backstroke on the final day all the swimmers dove in except for Thoman and Don Mulvey, who paced back and forth, neither one looking at the other and neither willing to be the first to go in. Finally Mulvey plunged into the pool, Thoman followed, and the race began. Later in the afternoon the whole procedure was reenacted, with Mulvey outlasting the superstitious Thoman. Mulvey...
...yard medley relay--Won by Yale (Thoman, O'Connor, Donovan); 2, Harvard (Mulvey, Emerson, Hedberg); 3, Army; 4, Columbia; 5, Princeton. Time 2:48.4. (Pool and meet record...
...Thoman didn't win everything. At the start of every race he waits superstitiously until all the other swimmers have dived in before entering the water. Before the 100 backstroke, everyone but Thoman and Mulvey jumped in. They stood there for a minute, and finally Mulvey jumped in, and Thoman followed him a second later. Later that night, at the start of the 300 medley, the same thing happened. Both stood there, with Thoman towering over the much smaller Mulvey. Finally after about two minutes, Thoman jumped in. Mulvey waited, then, grinning followed, as the crowd went wild...
...yard backstroke--Won by Thoman, Y;2, Witteried, Army; 3, Mulvey, H; 4, Curran, Fordham; 5, Kouch, Niagara. Time 56.6. (Intercollegiate, pool and meet record...