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...fastest combinations going in every event. With Kerry Donovan in the sprints, Dick Thoman in the back-stroke, Dennis O'Connor and Stanton Smith in the breast-stroke, plus some in- credibly fast relay teams, the Elis may well surpass more than a few marks...
...performances of the day were by Yale's Dick Thoman, who set a new intercollegiate 100-yard backstroke record of 56.9 in the trial heats, and Eli Wayne Moore, who passed roommate John Marshall in the last 75 yards...
Sophomore Don Mulvey is the only Crimson entry in the backstroke, but the Elis still have Dick Thoman, who set a 100-yard intercollegiate, meet, and pool record in the afternoon trials a year ago. Last year's final winner of the 100 and 200 backstroke and the 150-yard individual medley, Jim Thomas of North Carolina, has graduated, leaving Thoman virtually a clear field...
...yard medley relay, however, Elis Dick Thoman, Dennis O'Connor, and Don Sheff recently broke an official world record. And in the middle-distance freestyle events, John Marshall, Jim McLane and Wayne Moore seem certain of victory...
...free-style (0:49.6), who took the A.A.U. event in 0:50. ¶Ohio State's Jack Taylor, who edged out Yale's Olympic winner, Allen Stack, in the 100-yd. backstroke by a wrist flip. ¶The N.H.S.C. 400-yd. free-style relay quartet (Dick Thoman, Don Scheff, Bill Farnsworth and Ray Reid), which set a world record 3:23 in the event. Old record: 3:23.8, set by the 1948 N.H.S.C...