Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fastest freestyle sprinter in Harvard history at 20.48 in the 50-yd. and 44.74 in the 100-yd freestyle. Still, Tull's times at these distances weren't the quickest of the day. Ty Nelson of Princeton edged Tull in the 50 by 12 seconds and Harvard's Ed Wagner swam a blistering 44.56 in the anchor leg of the 400-yd. medley relay...
...meet and foreshadowed the rest of the day's events. Kovacs burst out of the blocks for a commanding lead on the first leg but Princeton's stars, Nelson Diebel and Ty Nelson, overtook the Crimson in the next two legs of the breaststroke and the butterfly. Harvard's Wagner tried to pull it out for the Crimson with the fastest anchor leg of the event, but the Harvard team fell short by nearly half a second...
...Princeton (Rad, Diebel, Nelson, Musselwhite), 3:20.07; 2. Harvard, (Kovacs, Manson, Kidd, Wagner), 3:20.47; 3. Princeton...
...Nelson (P), :20.35; 2. Tull (H), :20.48; 3. Wagner...
...first in his class of 480, instead of 43rd, "but he did a lot of other things except study." He wrestled and played a bit of tennis and football. He sang tenor and conducted the chapel choir and loved listening to what Suddath calls the "uplifting" martial music of Wagner and Tchaikovsky's cannonading 1812 Overture -- "the sort that makes you feel on top of the world...