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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon in 1918, Yale's swimming coach fell suddenly ill and someone yelled at Bob Kiphuth, a young physical education instructor: "Get up there in a hurry and direct the swimming squad." Robert John Herman Kiphuth, 27, had never coached swimming before, but he got up there and started directing. He has been doing it ever since. In 41 years as coach of the Yale team. Kiphuth has amassed an unparalleled record in sport: 522 victories in dual swimming meets, only twelve defeats...
Conditioning. Kiphuth's secret is to train his swimmers on dry land. In his early years as coach, he traveled to Sweden and Japan to study bodybuilding methods, incorporated what he observed and what he devised himself into a rigorous physical education program that all Yale swimmers must undergo before they take to the water for serious workouts. Under Kiphuth's direction, they work for weeks on weights and pulleys in Yale's immense Payne Whitney Gymnasium ("the Temple of Sweat...
...depressors-muscles that pull the arms down. "The arm depressors must be strengthened for best results in pulling at the catch and to push through at the finish of the stroke," he explains. "I'm a great believer in swimming with the arms." For hours on end Yale swimmers rhythmically flail their arms in Payne Whitney exercise rooms, lying on boards in swimming position and struggling with weights...
Exploded Theory. Because Kiphuth feels he can coach better from poolside than by getting into the water with his boys, the legend for years was that he could not swim a stroke. The little (5 ft. 7 in.) wiry man with the booming voice refuted the story at the Yale swimming carnival of 1948 when he abruptly leaped into the pool, swam its width to resounding cheers. Once he went to the bottom of the pool in a diving helmet for a fish-eye view, quickly corrected a flaw in the stroke of one of his swimmers...
...Bost. Univ. 3 5 1 Yale 2 4 0 R.P.I. 1 4 0 Harvard...