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Several Harvard swimmers have good chances of scoring at the nationals, if they can respond to the competition and somehow come up with a few more superlative efforts. Two, in particular, should score if they continue to swim well...
...swimmer well knows, it is extremely difficult to continue to swim faster times after shaving a couple of times, especially in such a pressure situation as existed at West Point, but Don Gambril's eight (the only Crimson swimmers who scored points in the meet) managed the impossible. By comparison, North Carolina State, which had shaved and peaked for the Atlantic Coast Conference championship the week before, failed to match its times in most cases but, relying on its depth and diving, it was just too much in the end for Harvard...
...Quakers' success had to be the superlative performance of senior Bob Atkinson, the only man to win three races and by a wide margin top individual the swimmer at the meet. Atkinson dropped three full seconds to take the 220-yd. individual medley in record time, repeated his fine swim in the 400-yd. version, also setting a record, and then surprised everybody by winning the 200-yd. backstroke as overwhelming favorite and defending NCAA and Eastern champion Charlie Campbell of Princeton, tired out by a winning performance against Tim Neville in the 100-yd. free, faded to fifth...
...time of 16:10.656 was three seconds off the school record time of 16:07.43 he set last year at the nationals, but the unexpected second-place swim ignited the Crimson, and it continued to equal or surpass expectations almost all evening, fighting courageously for a team second. Baughman thus closed out the meet with a 10th-place in the 400-IM, an 8th in the 500-yd. freestyle, along with his final second, a fine comeback from a month of illness in January...
...Gambril has had help. This year's swimmers have proved again and again that they are the most dedicated, competitive, and talented group of athletes to swim at Harvard in quite a while, if not ever. In a performance which seemed so perfect that it read like a movie script, they broke nine pool records and eight Harvard standards. The consistently high level of these swims in such a high pressure situation as a league championship battle used to be the trademark of the great Yale teams of the past. This season Harvard has seemingly out-Yaled Yale...