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...asked Tim Neville about it and he said he just wasn't sure about the future and swimming, but that he had not swum last summer, just to get the feel of it after continuos competitive swimming since before he was eight. "I know I didn't come to Harvard primarily to swim and I know swimming has to end soon--one can't swim for a career." Associate Director of Athletics Baron Pittenger concurs. "No one is going to get a Harvard team doing the 12,0000 yards a day necessary to win the national championship...
...flight schedule. This year Gambril was noticeably chagrined at having to swim such teams as Brown and Springfield: in my interview with him he referred to the two schools as "practice opponents." The problem with an upgrading of the schedule is not lack of willing opponents but lack of money. All Harvard sports budgets are being squeezed in an attempt to maintain all the programs. Traveling budgets have been slashed and teams have been required to make long same-day bus trips. But some money has already been flowing in and Gambril hopes to get a strong "Friends of Harvard...
...direction college swimming in general and Harvard in particular has chosen is definitely not designed to benefit the swimmers who just happened to be here and felt it might be a good time to swim competitively. The program is being pushed by ideas and people that have contributed much to the position our country is in today and Harvard's unique position in that country. Ideas and people expressed by such sentiments as "Beating Yale." "Building a 50-meter pool." "Going to the Olympics." "Having an undefeated season." "Breaking all our records every year." "Getting the best talent...
...point-scoring possibilities appear limited. Dave Brumwell, who finally broke the two-minute mark in the 200-yd. individual medley at the Easterns, is well back of the leader. Gary Hall of Indiana, and his scoring chances seem remote. Brumwell, who like Baughman holds three Harvard records, will also swim the 400-yd. IM, but once again his chances of scoring are doubtful...
...Neville, the third Crimson participant, will swim the 50-yd. and 100-yd. freestyles and the 100-yd. butterfly, and he, like Brumwell, has an outside chance of placing. Neville, a freshman like Baughman and Brumwell, is ranked ninth in the fly, but his chances in the two freestyle events, against some very fast competition, are not bright. Neville, who has had trouble with his starts, could shave some time off his 50-yd. free mark if he can master the grab start he began using at the Easterns...