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...individual medley he pulled away from the field during that leg on the way to winning the event, and later returned to take the 200 breaststroke in 2:09.03--less than a second off the University record. Lundberg's 58.4 split on the medley relay is the fastest recorded by a Harvard breaststroker in three years...
Harvard's depth in some events borders on the obscene. The Crimson finished first, second and fourth in the 400 Individual Medley at last year's Easterns. This season, with the addition of Lundberg (eighth in the world this summer in the event), Verdin, Countryman, Chappell and Lockman, it is conceivable that Harvard could place six or seven men in the top eight...
Norma Barton, one of the many versatile Crimson freshmen, qualified for the Easterns and set a new Harvard record with a 59.50 in the 100-meter butterfly. She is the first Harvard woman ever to break the one-minute mark in that event...
Kathleen McCloskey and Dove Scherr, also freshmen, both qualified for the Easterns in the 1000-meter freestyle, clocking times of 10:48.59 and 11:36.6, first and second, respectively. McCloskey, with a second-place 1:02.32 in the 100 fly also made Easterns in that event...
...first day, but the Tigers--on the strength of their freestyle depth--had clawed their way back into contention. The fact that Princeton featured four of the meet's top eight 200-freestylers competing on their relay team seemed to guarantee a win for the Tigers in that event, the momentum from which they hoped would carry them to victory on the third and final...