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NCAA swimming championships are always reunion-like affairs. Most of the top swimmers know each other from swimming together on California AAU teams each summer, age-group swimming, or post-meet parties, but this year should be an especially interesting get together for Don Gambril and the Harvard team...
...Crimson, which will be trying to break into the top ten in the team standings for the first time, will get its first look at Gambril, its former coach, since he flew the coop last spring to build a national swimming power at Alabama...
Ironically, Gambril trained several Harvard swimmers, among them Hess Yntema, Tim Neville, and Rich Baughman, at the Belmont Plaza pool two summers...
...find it extremely difficult to break the top ten, because there are still too many good teams ahead of it. Besides the five teams mentioned above, Stanford, Michigan and Florida are definite top ten choices, with North Carolina State (which skipped the Easterns to concentrate on the Nationals), and Gambril's Alabama team probably rounding out the first...
...distance, winning handily in the 200-yd. I.M., the 200-yd. freestyle, and 200-yd. butterfly, and anchoring the victorious 800-yd. free relay. Teammate Tom Wolf came within a shade of winning the 100-yd. back, in the process breaking the only record left from the pre-Gambril-Essick era, and ran away from everybody in the 200-yd. version. Wolf's outstanding meet was a very pleasant surprise...