Harvard will play host to the 19th annual National Intercollegiate Swimming Championship meet on Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28. Closing of entries on March 21 will probably reveal that 30 of the country's top rank teams will compete for the national title, held by the University of Michigan for the past eight years.

This year's tourney will feature the effort of a brilliant Yale aggregation to break the Wolverine's national supremacy. The Elis have the Strongest team in their long history and have never captured this title, but a great showing is expected from them at the end of the week. Coach Bob Kiphuth and his squad, led by Captain Howard Johnson, will aim at the leadership heartened by their victory over the Michigan team early in the season.

Johnson Rivals Welsmuller

In Johnson, Yale has the man most likely to break Johnny Welsmuller's record for the 100-yard free style event, and a performer who could well equal or better the amazing performance of Jack Medica of Washington who stole the show the last time the Indoor Athletic Pool was the scene of the swim events. The Yale 400 yard medley relay quartet will also aim to break its own world's record of 3:26:6, set against Brown this season.

An imposing array of talent will attempt to stand off the Elis in this year's intercollegiates. Five teams from the Big Ton, as well as nine Ivy League and a number of southern and Rocky Mountains squads, will be present at the opening gun on Friday morning, March 27 at 9:30. Throughout the two-day meet, preliminaries and semi-final events will be scheduled in the afternoons, while the finals will be swim on the two evening programs.

The March meet will mark the third time that the tournament has been conducted in the Harvard pool. The tank was dedicated by a similar meet in 1930, and the intercollegiate swimmers returned in 1935, when 36 teams vied for top honors.

Crimson natators will take part in the events but are given little chance to overtake the speedy Elli tankmen or some of the other teams that come out of the West and South with impressive records. Michigan once more will have a well-oiled machine, coach Matt Mann again having turned the trick of developing a well-balanced squad at Ann Arbor. Ohio state will also be and outstanding contender for the title that the Maize and Blue swimmers have held for eight campaigns.