Word: ulen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's great coach Hal Ulen has built his undefeated 1952 team into one of the finest in the country and easily one of the two or three beat in Crimson history. There is something pitiful, then, in the fact that, when Ulen takes his swimmers to New Haven this weekend, only the most starry-eyed stretching of collegiate spirit could make anyone believe they have a chance for the upset of the half-century...
...sordid fact is that the Elis, with juniors John Marshall, Wayne Moore, Jim McLane, and Don Sheff, and freshman Kerry Donovan, have already won the E.I.S.L. championship for 1952 and 1953, and probably for '54 and '55. In fact, Harvard has beaten Yale exactly twice in 23 years under Ulen--in 1937 (breaking an Eli dual meet streak of 163) and again in 1938. As of last weekend the Yalies were working on a new streak of 82 wins. And two years ago, in a listing of the beat swimming teams in America, first was the Yale freshman squad, second...
Harvard's Ulen is admired as the only non-griping competitor. "It's a futile business taking my boys down to New Haven," he says, "but it's also foolish to be bitter about their tremendous team. Tradition sends the good swimmers to Yale. I'd like to build up the same tradition and alumni interest here...
...varsity's margin would have been even larger had not Ulen, pointing for the record, saved his best free-stylers to rest them for the relay. As it was, the Crimson took first in nine of ten events...
With little or no difficulty, Hal Ulen's varsity should make it nine-out-of-nine this evening. The Lions, with only three lettermen left from last season, have two wins, one tie, seven losses on their record. Among the Columbia-conquerors are Navy. Princeton, Brown, and Army, teams the Crimson had defeated easily...