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...Dartmouth system prescribes that a student must pass a rope climb, a standing broad jump, a speed-agility obstacle test, and a swim test within a narrowly prescribed time limit, as well as fulfilling certain other minimum standards...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: 'Step Test' Eliminated For Future Freshmen | 5/25/1956 | See Source »

Everyone, for example, must swim 50 yards under 60 seconds. On the basis of his total score, each student is rated on "A", "B", or "C". The "A" may drop physical training, the "B" may select his sport, and the "C" is assigned to some exercise by the Physical Department...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: 'Step Test' Eliminated For Future Freshmen | 5/25/1956 | See Source »

Charlie Batterman announced last week at the annual banquet for the swimming team that he has resigned as freshman and varsity diving coach. After seven years of coaching at Harvard he will become the new diving and freshman swim coach at M.I.T. next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dive Coach Resigns | 4/24/1956 | See Source »

...meters to win the A.A.U. title. The slower time was intentional-Breen kept on going until he had finished a full mile in the water, finished in 19:40.4, a new world record. Another Counsilman protegé, Frankie Brunnell, 17, of Philadelphia's Vesper Swim Club, finished second in the 1,500-meter with a commendable 19:38.2. Later in the week, Breen won another title with a fast 4:30.1 in the 440-just two seconds slower than the world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Victory for the Flail | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...times, Clinton should have been picked as the fifth finalist and the other two should have swum off for the sixth position. But this hardly seemed fair to Kruthers, who had beaten Clinton. So the NCAA decided to let all seven be finalists. The four fastest qualifiers would swim in one heat, and Clinton, Kruthers, and Pemberton would swim in another...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Machine Age Monkeyshines | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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