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Event Eleven: 800-yd. Freestyle Relay--1. Harvard (Hackett, Mack, Gauthier, Coglin), 6:41.84. 2. Princeton (O'Hara, Peterson, Nelson, Saltzman), 6:41.87. 3. Dartmouth, 6:50.13. 4. U. Maine, 6:51.03. 5. Navy, 6:51.51. 6. Fordham, 6:57.29. 7. Yale, 6:57.66. 8. Columbia...
...Ladies and gentlemen, you have just seen what Easterns swimming is all about," the announcer at Blodgett Pool said after Harvard's roofraising victory in the Eastern Championship 800-yd: freestyle relay last night...
...biggest of the countless question marks surrounding the finale is the health of Harvard wonderboy Bobby Hackett, who came down with a fever Thursday night and lost his 200 duel with Saltzman last night. Hackett should win the evening's opening race, the 1650 yd. freestyle, handily despite his illness...
...role in the potentially decisive 400-yd. freestyle relay (the meet's last event) may well be the key to the weekend for the Crimson. Even weak memories can't help but recall the showdown that Hackett barely lost to Princeton's Andy O'Hara in the last leg of that event exactly one year...
Another of Harvard's freshman hydroplanes, Ron Raikula, appears likely to join Hackett and superb Cornell diver Paul Steck in the exclusive double-winners' club. Raikula, who smoked the field last night in the 400 IM, should win his specialty--the 200-yd. backstroke--by as much as a full second...