The Harvard swimming team is in ninth place with 461/2 points after the second day of competition in the Eastern Seaboard Championships at Penn.

Penn, with 198 points, has a small lead over Princeton and Yale. Princeton has three divers in the finals today and is in a good position to grab the championship from Yale, which has not lost this meet in nine years.

The only events in which Harvard placed were the 100-yard backstroke and the 400-yard individual medley. In the medley, Tim Chetin moved from fifth to third in the final lap and finished in a time of 4:22.56. Harvard's backstroke specialist, Dan Kobick, swam an exceptional race, finishing seventh in 54.2, a new Harvard record.

The main disappointment of the day came in the medley where Steve Krausse, who placed third last year, failed to qualify for the finals. According to manager Glenn Koocher. Krausse was sick, Koocher said, "I don't know if it was something Steve ate or what, but at the beginning of that race he was too sick to give it his best effort."

In the three meter dive, Dave Silver just missed qualifying. One of the judges in the event, the Yale diving coach, awarded Silver only one point on one of his dives, and it was this ruling which cost Silver his qualifying spot.