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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet began auspiciously enough with Crimson sophomore hero Bobby Hackett smashing his own pool record in yesterday afternoon's preliminaries of the first event, the 500 yd. freestyle. Hackett--cool, confident, unshaven, and wearing two suits--returned in the evening to cruise to an easy gold medal in 4:26.78, three full seconds under the NCAA Championship meet qualifying time in the 500, but two seconds off his meet record pace of one year ago (the only time all night when the meet record was not bettered). "I felt really strong," said the Yonkers flash afterwards. "I just wanted...
...members of their stable of distance thoroughbreds, junior Andy Saltzman and freshman Craig Peterson. But while those two were leading the rest of the pack from the outside lanes, sophomore sensation Andy "Beaver" O'Hara--the man who upset Hackett on the last leg of the 400-yd. freestyle relay to win the meet for Princeton a year ago--was struggling to a surprisingly weak eighth place finish in lane five...
Finals: 7:30 p.m. 1. 1650 yd. Freestyle (last heat) 2. 100 yd. Freestyle 3. 200 yd. Backstroke 4. 200 yd. Breaststroke 5. 200 yd. Butterfly 6. Three-Meter Diving finals 7. 400 yd. Freestyle Relay...
Navy's Mark Heinrich will defend his titles in both the backstrokes, Dartmouth's Kent Whitaker and Todd Taylor will attempt to repeat as kings of the 100-yd. breast stroke and 200-yd. individual medley, respectively, and Yale's Mark Devore will take on the field in the 100-yd. butterfly. Cornell's Paul Steck will seek his third consecutive one-meter diving crown...
Each squad's strengths will be tested on the first evening. Bobby Hackett will win the 500-yd. freestyle, but the question will be whether Crimson freshman ace Tim Maximoff can hold off Princeton's freestylers for second. Harvard's Mike Coglin and Malcolm Cooper will be favored in the 200-yd. IM and 50-yd. freestyle, respectively, before the Tigers attempt to defend its crown in the medley relay...