Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general reaction here is that the regulation governing the awarding of a major "Y" to a swimmer are too stringent, and probably a movement will be inaugurated to liberalize these restrictions should the Harvard move be successful...
...purpose of inhaling oxgen before a race is to fill the lungs with the gas, untainted by carbon monoxide, thus reducing for a short while the need of the swimmer for a breath...
Hutter was the only sprinter who was able to use the oxygen with good results. For any distance over the 50, the gas was worse than useless, since as soon as the swimmer would have to breath, the whole effect would be lost, and it would be accompanied by a minor let-down which actually slowed the men down...
Forced breathing, which consists of having the swimmer breath particularly deeply for a while before a race, achieves the same effects, Ulen said. Don Barker has been using this method with success. Because the Japanese Olympic swimmers, the Springfield varsity, and several mid-western colleges have all experimented with oxygen, Ulen said that, aside from co-operating with the Fatigue Laboratory for physiological experimentation, his reason for trying the gas was to dispell the false impression that it acted as a stimulant to greater speed...
...aside from his appeal to the crowd in the pool balcony, the little man is important because of his point-getting ability. Seconds and thirds, any Varsity swimmer will tell you, won the Yale meet last year. It was such things as Don Racker's second in the 50, Jim Munroe's third in the breastroke, and Hutter's magnificent second in the 440 that saved the meet from being decided by the last event, the open relay, which Yale won. It is worthy of mention that the crowd gave Hutter the greatest ovation not when he took...