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...Wolfpack and their constituents, adopting the Avis we-try-harder mentality, prepared for the contest with high spirit and keen concentration. Bumper stickers in Raleigh admonished: STOP THE WALTON GANG. Though the event was televised nationally, some 4,000 State fans journeyed by chartered plane, bus, private car and even motorcycle to St. Louis, where the Shootout was held on neutral ground. Coach Norm Sloan claimed that his team was doing nothing very special to gear up: "We really don't have anything to prove," he said before leaving for St. Louis. But 7 ft. 4 in. Center...
...Easterns were the re-emergence of Penn from two seasons of swimming doldrums, and the almost total collapse of Yale. The Quakers finished fourth with 233 points to Harvard's 240 and N.C. State's 240.5 and Princeton's untouchable 361, but it battled the Crimson and the Wolfpack all three days for the runner-up spot. Penn's finish, however, was no fluke. It had conceded its dual meet season and unlike Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth (which finished an abysmal eighth) it had not shaved or peaked until this weekend, and it paid off as Penn swimmers...
...Wolfpack passed the Crimson in the final event to win the battle for second-place by an incredibly slim half-point margin...
...three teams, which went through the entire course of the championships locked in a very tight head-to-head fight for the runner-up spot, began the evening with just nine points separating the second-day leader Harvard from fourth-place N.C. State. The Wolfpack, faltering early in the final evening, closed with a rush, picking up a crucial first in the 3-meter dive and a runaway record win in the 400-yd. freestyle relay to catch the Crimson at the finish...
...Wolfe gave Harvard four more points with a third place finish in a consolation final of the 100-yd. backstroke, but Penn, with a 2-3-4 performance in the championship race amassed an incredible 36 points to pass the Wolfpack and the Crimson and into second...