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Paced by Hess Yntema's suberb third place performance in the 200-yd. butterfly, the Harvard swimming team concluded a highly successful season Saturday with a 16th place finish in the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at Knoxville, Tenn...
...bronze medal swim by Yntema pushed Harvard's three-day point total to 19--the Crimson's best showing in over a decade--and was the finest individual performance in the nationals by a Harvard swimmer since Bruce Hunter took the 50-yd. freestyle crown...
...Besides Yntema's third, which, added to an earlier 11th in the 100-yd. fly gave the freshman star 14 points out of the Crimson's total of 19, it was not a particularly noteworthy final day for Harvard. None of the other Crimson performances were fast enough to qualify, although the team added two more record swims to bring to seven the number of University standards broken in the meet...
...Yntema qualified seond behind eventual winner Gary Hall of Indiana, lowering his Harvard record to 1:51.34. In the finals, he took third in the extremely fast record time of 1:50.806. Yntema has now lowered the 200-yd. fly record a phenomenal six seconds since breaking it in the second meet of the year...
...regardless. Captain Fred Mitchell led off with another consistent 1:44.43 leg, but second man Mike Cook failed to equal his superlative 1:43 clocking from the Easterns with a good 1:44.92. Rich Baughman swam slightly off his best career time with a 1:46.68 performance, but Hess yntema turned in an excellent anchor leg, with a closing...