Word: yd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Coach Joe Bernal's plan for a first in the 1000-yd. free without using Bobby Hackett backfired. Harvard's superior divers realized the necessity of sweeps in the one and three-meter board events to prevent Princeton from putting the meet out of reach...
...then there was freshman Tuomo Kerola, who probably got the most important second place of his college career in his 200-yd. breast stroke bout against unfair odds in the Tigers John Christensen and last year's Eastern Seabord champ Chuck Hector...
...toughest competiton came in the long and triple jumps, where a stellar Crimson effort managed to neutralize two of Northeastern's strongest field events. Ron Chambers, the Huskie powerhouse who two weeks ago in the Northeastern meet swept three events (taking first place in both jumps and the 60-yd. dash), was the winner in both events. Teammates Ricky Thompson and John Caffrey followed Chambers's meet record mark of 24 ft., 4 3/4 in. in the long jump with second and fifth place finishes. In the triple jump, Huskie jumper Carl Brown followed Chambers's lead with a fourth...
...distance freestyle events, no one is near the Yonkers flash. His 1000-yd, freestyle NCAA record time of 9:02.05 is 12 seconds better than anyone in the nation, 33 seconds better than anyone in the East (Harvard's Michael Coglin is second at 9:35.57), and 41 ticks better than Princeton's best man. Hackett's 4:27.75 mark for the 500 free is second in the nation and miles ahead of anyone in the East...
...case you've been adding up the points to see who's going to win, don't waste your calculator batteries. This meet will almost certainly come down to the last relay, where both squads have nationally-ranked 400-yd, freestyle foursomes...