Word: ulen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again this year, many authorities (notably these centered about New Haven) consider the Elie' Bob Kiphuth the nation's number one swimming coach. The local water contingent, and its branch offices in colleges all over the country, prefers to give the title to Harvard's genial Hal Ulen, noted worker of miracles...
...difference is, of course, that Ulen builds his superb squads out of normal human beings. He doesn't have names like John Marshall. Wayne Moore, or Jim McLane to conjure with. But Ulen has managed to parlay a Hedberg, a McNamara, a Dillingham, and a flood of sophomores into a team that will probably once again go undefeated until it travels to New Haven in March to meet Kiphuth's frogmen...
...though the present Crimson swimmers would be considerably weaker than the team that finished second in the E.I.S.L. last year. A number of the better men on last year's freshman squad were academically amputated from the varsity, at least for the fall term. On top of this, Ulen lost, through graduation, the services of John Steinhart, who went through the regular season last year undefeated in the backstroke, Captain Bob Berke, an ace in sprints, distance, and medley, and good second-place diver Frank Manhelm...
...happily, freshman coach Bill Brooks still managed to pass on four startling sophomores to Ulen. The four--Mary Sandler in the 220 and 440 freestyle, Charlie Egan in the new 150-yard individual medley, Don Mulvey in the backstroke, and Ralph Zani in the breast-stroke--took five out of ten first places in the recent drawing and quartering of Pennsylvania...
...Crimson took first place in every event down to the 400-yard relay. At this point, with the score 61-16, Hal Ulen cleared the bench to put in his fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh best sprinters. Harvard surprisingly won the event...