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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...
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...
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...