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March 7, 1975: Under the tutelage of Ray Essick, the men's swimming team prepares to embark upon their annual journey to the Eastern championships with yet another undefeated season under their belt. Foregoing any of the dual meet stunts of shaving-down or even psyching-up that the Harvard team and their competitors have been employing this season, the team of yesteryear relied upon raw talent, pure and simple, for its successes. Training was much less intense back then for the likes of George Keim, Ted Fullerton, or Hess Yntema (who at one time was ranked...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Place Your Bets | 2/28/1980 | See Source »

...free, traditionally a Princeton stronghold in years gone by, Saltzman and Peterson will represent the Tiger's finest, with one of the big question marks of the first day being whether O'Hara will swim in the 50 or the 500 free...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Place Your Bets | 2/28/1980 | See Source »

...wanted one of these watches specifically to time meets, and now I can usually come within a couple of tenths of a second of the official times," the youngster, who clocks a time of 30 seconds in a 25-yd. freestyle swim, says...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Kidding Around With Men's Swimming | 2/27/1980 | See Source »

Although the 12-year-old acts more mature than some members of the Harvard swim team, he keeps his age in perspective--"I haven't thought about coming to Harvard for college--I've got some time to think about...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Kidding Around With Men's Swimming | 2/27/1980 | See Source »

...continue, whatever happens to the Olympics; and, even if they didn't, sport fans could still rate athletes against each other by comparing their record performances. The events, purely as athletic phenomena, gain little but imagery by being conjoined in a mass spectacular. The athletes don't jump higher, swim faster, or run more quickly. Instead of looking so much to the Olympics for outstanding performances, observers should look more broadly at all the meets at which international class athletes compete, and where they set most records. This is not much of a reason to save the Olympics...

Author: By Francis H. Straus iii, | Title: The Olympic Spirit | 2/27/1980 | See Source »

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