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Lining Them Up

Freshman Swimming, Meets won 1; lost 5.

Varsity Squash (A), Games won 8; lost 0.

Varsity Squash (B), Games won 6; lost 1.

Varsity Squash (C), Games won 6; lost 1.

Freshman Squash (C), Games won 5; lost 3.

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Freshman Squash (D), Games won 7; lost 2.

Varsity Fencing, Meets won 6; lost 2.

Freshman Fencing, Meets won 5; lost 2.

Varsity Boxing, Meets won 1; lost 2.

Freshman Boxing, Meets won 0; lost 2.

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Besides the fact that two new sports were added to the Harvard roster this season there are several other interesting sidelights. For the first time in many years the varsity hockey sextet triumphed over all its Canadian rivals and for the first time in history did the hockey team go across the border and play a Canadian rival on its home ice. The varsity swimming aggregation helped dedicate the new swimming pool at West Point when it met the cadets there on February 23. The squash team not only was undefeated but won the national championships at Buffalo, while Beekman Pool '32, a member of the first five, won the state individual championship. The polo trio also had the honor on last Saturday of being the first Crimson team to play Princeton following the resumption of athletic relations with the Tiger. In winning the game the Harvard outfit scored its first intercollegiate victory since it captured the championships in 1929.

Swimming Speed

An interesting sidelight which shows the progress of the swimming team during its first season is the fact that every record except one which the Crimson swimmers set at the beginning of the season was broken by them before the year was over. Also testifying to the advancement made is the fact that three of the Harvard records now are within a fraction of the pool marks, all of which were set in the Intercollegiates last year. The times for the 50 and 100 yard swims of 24 1-5 and 54 1-5 seconds respectively, both held by Captain-elect B.S. Wood '33, are both only 1-5 of a second slower than the pool records set last year by Albert Schwartz of Northwestern. The Crimson relay quartet in hanging up a mark of 1:30 in the Dartmouth meet came only 1 1-4 seconds short of equaling the pool record set last year by Michigan.

This same relay mark was lowered three times this year before the meet with the Big Green swimmers. Wood lowered the 100-yard mark twice and the 50-yard one three times before finally establishing the present times. After Captain W.S. de Lima '31 had lowered the mark in the 440-yard free-style three times during the year Wood also shattered this record. In the intercollegiate meet in the Columbia pool last Saturday he won the race in 5:04 after having been first among the qualifiers on Friday with a time of 5:03 1-4. The best official time that de Lima set was 5:08 3-5, although the Harvard captain swam the distance in considerably faster time when he placed second to Leedy in the Yale meet. The 200-yard breast stroke record was lowered three times during the year. The only mark which did not fall during the year was that in the 150-yard backstroke. This consistent lowering of times is a tribute to the work that Coach Ulen has done with the men and clearly shows why the Crimson made such an excellent start in its first year in swimming competition. --BY TIME OUT.

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