Word: ulen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just about this time last year Coach Hal Ulen's biggest problem was that the group of stars who comprised the unbeaten 1938 League champions might be overconfident. It's a sad fact that Hal's problem is different this year. Following the trend of world politics, he's changed from a "have" to a "have-not," and his job this season will be to form a small nucleus of experienced Juniors and some promising Sophomores into a team worth its salt...
...usually lose a sprinkling of champions like Charlle Hutter, Graham Cummin, and Bill Kendall all at ones. Ulon faces a job he has attempted, and succeeded in before. He must build up a team that is worthy not only of the name of Harvard, but of the name of Ulen, for he has in recent years made his name synonymous with fine swimming...
...typical star who has been developed under Ulen's tutelage has been the work-horse type, not the natural, born swimming flash. He brought Hutter's 100-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...
Aside from the fact that Curwen is in eligible at the moment, Ulen need have no worries about these men, nor will he brood about his divers, headed by Captain Rusty Greenhood. The Crimson team's leader this year will be untouchable most of the season, the only possible snag for him being Dan Endweiss of down New Haven way. George Dana, naturally graceful in the air, and Chet Sagenkahn, a diligent worker, are fighting for the No. 2 diver's niche. Dana has had some Varsity experience that ought to give him the edge, but Sagenkahn has been training...
...breaking 400 relay team is slowly rounding into condition and ought to be negotiating the 100 in the vicinity of 53 seconds around the season's end, while his cousin, Lonnie Stowell, powerful Sophomore free-styler, has been termed as good a potentiality as Hutter. Three years' work under Ulen should leave him with plenty of laurels...