Word: yales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity swimming team closes its 1958-59 season this weekend at the NCAA championships at Cornell. Defending champion Michigan will lead the awesome array of powerful midwestern schools, which have much greater talent than even Eastern winner Yale. The Big Ten colleges in particular possess world-calibre swimmers, which should easily beat Yale's contingent...
...Michigan State and Si Hopkins of Michigan (both of whom have done 2:22.7), Stanley's main competition for third should come from Gordon Collett of Oklahoma. In the 100, he will have to beat Navy's Bob Taft, who won the Easterns, plus arch-rival Joe Koletsky of Yale, who lost to Stanley last week at New Haven...
This meet will end what Coach Brooks has called a "good, wholesome season." After defeating Army, Navy, Cornell, and Dartmouth--all of whom this year had their best teams in history, the varsity lost a one-sided contest to Yale. The reasons for the varsity's traditional second-place finish are simple--against Yale, as Brooks put it, we had the ponies, not the horses...
...Yale had a chance for a tie going into the final freestyle relay, but Finlayson, Zentgraf, Eisenbrey, and Kaufmann broke their own freshman record by 9.5 seconds, winning the race in 3:28.2. Final score...
Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away, another young Hawaiian was the accidental agent who evoked new tradition and new standards. He was Opukahaia, taken to New Haven, Conn, by a sea captain in 1809. One day Opukahaia was found weeping on the steps of Yale College, lamenting his ignorance. Sympathetic college students tutored him, and soon he became an ardent Christian; he died of typhus before he could return to the islands. The story of Opukahaia inspired the organization of the Sandwich Islands Mission, and in October 1819 seven New England families, singing When Shall We All Meet Again, set sail...