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...individual medley--Verdeur (La Salle...
Princeton sophomore Bob Brawner ended the three-year reign of Joe Verdeur of Lasalle in the 200-yard breaststroke...
Penn has had one meet already this season, a loss to La Salle College. La Salle, however, boasts Olympic champ Joe Verdeur, the world's greatest all-around swimmer, so there was no great shame in losing, according to Ulen...
Robert Kiphuth, Yale's varsity coach, made a grand appearance after that. Talking about the various strokes, Kiphuth called Joe Verdeur, Allan Stack, and Ray Reid from the bench. Like trained seals they stood beside the pool. When Kiphuth mentioned the breastroke. Verdeur slithered into the water and chopped it into foam while empathetic little girls on the sidelines ogled. Then Stack plunged in at the mention of the backstroke. Then Reid swam 100-yards freestyle. After a practice 150-yard medley relay, Kiphuth lined them up for a 300-yard relay. He turned from the microphone and called...
Stack got off to a poor start. Kiphuth turned away from the pool as Verdeur began his laps. Reid finished up the race and Kiphuth looked at the stopwatch, laughed, and said to those next to him, "we better leave after that." The announcer informed the assembled multitude that, although the time was excellent, "it didn't quite break the world record...