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...example on the pupils. One little girl complained that she did not like gymnastics. Ah, said Rakosi, there was a time when he, too, had thought athletics unimportant, but he had learned better. Why, once, in the press of political business, he remembered, he had had to swim right across the Danube...
...Emerson and sprinter Dave Hedberg still managed to turn in pleasing performances. Emerson, besides swimming with the fourth-place medley relay trio in both the trial and final, tied for sixth in the qualifying rounds of the 100 yard breaststroke with Adelphi's Gary Kieler, and managed to edge Kieler by one foot in a swim-off. The Harvard junior then turned in a 63.8 time to take fifth place in the finals from Yale George McFaul...
...beaten Yale exactly twice in 23 years under Ulen--in 1937 (breaking an Eli dual meet streak of 163) and again in 1938. As of last weekend the Yalies were working on a new streak of 82 wins. And two years ago, in a listing of the beat swimming teams in America, first was the Yale freshman squad, second the Yale varsity, and third the New Haven Swim Club (Yale graduates...
Unfortunately, the Yale story is not so much one of tradition as it is of bursary jobs, scholarships, and interested (and well-heeled) alumni. Passing these by, it is difficult to see how tradition--the desire to swim under as good a coach as Ulen--could build up a finer swimming team than Harvard has today. But the world champions with a certain minimum of intelligence still go, or are sent, to Yale, and the rest are sent to Ohio State...
Outside of the record-breaking final relay, the evening's most exciting race was the 440-yard free-style swim, in which Dick Fouquet managed to pull out early, keep just ahead of Columbia's big John Wuorinen...