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Tiger captain Bruce Kone upset teammate and defending champion Bill Specht in the 100-yd. butterfly, but the bigger story was Harvard's placing four men among the top 11. Sophomore Dan Menichella also turned in a notable performance, as his clocking of 50.96 in winning the consolation heat topped his previous lifetime best...
Navy's Mark Heinrich successfully defended his title in the 100-yd. backstroke and became the first non-aligned (with super-powers Harvard or Princeton, that is) swimmer to take an event at the championship...
Koji Nishimura gave the service academies their second first-place finish, blitzing the field and qualifying for nationals with his meet record 57.37 in the 100-yd. breaststroke. The win was the first ever at the Easterns for the Army second-classman, who has consistently been among the league's top performers...
Princeton dominated the 200-yd. freestyle, placing four men in the championship final and piling up 58 points with their first, fourth, seventh, eighth place finishes...
Because of the Tigers' awesome showing in the 200, it appeared impossible that anyone would touch them in the day's final event, the 800-yd. freestyle relay. No other team had placed more than two swimmers in the top sixteen in the 200, and Princeton had four of the top eight...