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...team is almost sure to take its second straight Heptagonal championship against a weakened field; a real test may not come until June when the Crimson goes after its first IC4A championship since the dark ages, against Villanova's great runners and Maryland's field-events...
Most of the teams that played in New York's National Invitation Tournament last week were there because they were not quite up to the N.C.A.A. playoffs. Not the two who met in the finals. Villanova, No. 8 in the nation, had whipped both Princeton and Providence; St. John's had beaten Michigan. St. John's also had incentive: Coach Joe Lapchick was retiring after 20 years, and a victory would give him a record four N.I.T. titles. The Redmen led from the start...
Navy's Tim Peard was the fourth double winner of the tournament, adding an 18:12.9 victory in the 1650-yard freestyle to his 400-yard, individual medley win Thursday night. Villanova's Richard Girdler upset Army's Tony Clay to win the 100-yard freestyle...
...Elis, winners of the last two Eastern tournaments will breeze to another team title, but their individual swimmers will be challenged in almost every event. Twenty-five colleges, including strong teams from Villanova and North Carolina, are entered in the meet. Harvard has little chance of finishing better than sixth in the team standings...
Asked to choose the winners of the two big post-season tournaments, the team took St. Joseph's over Michigan by a single vote in the NCAA, and by a large margin favored Villanova over St. John's in the National Invitational Tournament...