Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (Universal). A stratospherical chapter of the 15-piece adventures of the fearless Flash, this is a Grade A cinemedition of the famed King Features strip. Chesty Flash (Larry Crabbe, onetime famed Olympic free-style swimmer) works desperately to save humanity on Earth from destruction by a nitrogen-destroying lamp erected on Mars...
Also, any swimmer placing in the National Collegiate Championships, to be held at Rutgers March 25 and 26, will receive the major "H". Colors for swimming awards will be decided upon when the committee meets in April...
...Swimmer Mann could swim so well that he was hired to coach at Yale, Harvard, Syracuse, Navy and almost every athletic club that had a pool, finally took over swimming at the University of Michigan in 1926. Instructor Kiphuth, in the meantime, had been expounding his theories on body-building with such success that he was appointed swimming coach at Yale. When the 1936 Olympic Games came around, Yale's Kiphuth was named coach of a U. S. swimming team for the third time and his feat of twelve years without defeat in a collegiate dual meet was proclaimed...
...Haven. In its magnificent Payne Whitney natatorium, Yale lined up a green but well-rounded team, which had chalked up nine victories and no defeats this season. Michigan's team, also undefeated, was rated better. It included Tom Haynie, generally considered the best all-round college swimmer in the U. S., and Ed Kirar, intercollegiate sprint champion. As might have been expected, Michigan won, but only after the score had been tied three times and finally clinched (41-to-34) in the very last event on the program when Michigan's Haynie beat Yale's Captain John...
...plan here is in operation today, to get a major letter a swimmer has to get a first in a majority of selected meets, which this year include the Ivy League meets, Rutgers, and Michigan. One of these firsts must be against Harvard or Princeton. A minor "Y" is awarded other participants in the Harvard and Princeton meets...