Word: ulen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HAVEN, March 16--"The boys were tired and definitely over their peak," said swimming coach Hal Ulen last night, "but they did well ... and they'll do better next year...
Freestyler Dave Hedberg was the big point-gatherer for Ulen's squad, winning the 100-yard sprint and trailing the Elis Don Scheff in the 50. The Crimson scored three firsts during the afternoon. Pete Dillingham found some tough competition in Ken Welch, but he won the three-meter dive anyway, with 122.58 points. And in the 200-yard backstroke Ken Emerson and Ralph Zanl finished one-two for the Crimson...
...Ulen expects his Crimson squad to win several events: Pete Dillingham in the dive, Captain Dave Hedberg and John McNamara in the sprints, and perhaps the 400-yard freestyle relay...
Before each season begins, Crimson swimmers figure on one loss, the Yale meet and then set their sights on smashing the rest of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. The year and last, Hal Ulen's squad has won 18 out of 19 meets; the single loss was to Yale. So far this season, the swimmers have nine straight victories...
Unfortunately, the Yale story is not so much one of tradition as it is of bursary jobs, scholarships, and interested (and well-heeled) alumni. Passing these by, it is difficult to see how tradition--the desire to swim under as good a coach as Ulen--could build up a finer swimming team than Harvard has today. But the world champions with a certain minimum of intelligence still go, or are sent, to Yale, and the rest are sent to Ohio State...