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Harvard's swimming success has been meteor-like. In only a couple of years, the program has skyrocketed from relative mediocraty to one of the best in the East. This new-found success is mostly due to the stellar freshmen and sophomores on the squad. Sophomore Hess Yntema, the best all-around swimmer on the team and very likely one of the best in Harvard's history, either set or help set six university records last year. So far this year, he has recorded nationally prominent times in the 200 IM, 200 freestyle, and 200 butterfly...
...best matchup of the day, however, will probably be in the 200-yard butterfly with All-Americans Hess Yntema from Harvard and Bob Meade from Cornell facing each other. Yntema took the regular season meeting last year, but Meade came back to edge him out in the Eastern Championships...
...Fullerton swam the second leg and increased the lead with a 60.9 time in the breast stroke. Hess Yntema followed with a 53.5 in the butterfly, and Wes Raffel finished the race, cruising in with a 51.1 in the freestyle...
Harvard All-American Hess Yntema is ranked among the top ten nationally in the 200-yard freestyle. His main competition in that event will come from Princeton swimmers Bill Howard and Curt Hayden. Yntema swam a 1:43.87, but the best the Tiger swimmers have managed was 1:46.2 and 1:47.8 by Howard and Hayden respectively...
...quality personnel. The appointment of Don Gambril as coach three years ago and of Essick as his successor this year has attracted some world class swimmers. Freshman Peter Tetlow's best time in the 1000-yard freestyle ranks him with Olympians John Kinsella and Rick Demont. Sophomore Hess Yntema is nationally ranked in the 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual medley. And the list goes...