The Harvard men's swimming team rebounded from its disappointing loss at Princeton last week by defeating Cornell, 86-27, Saturday afternoon at Blodgett Pool.

A crowd of 100 spectators watched as the Crimson (5-2 overall, 5-2 ECAC, 4-1 Ivy League) took every race from the Big Red (3-6, 1-6 ECAC), in a meet that was little more than a time trial to qualify for the Eastern Championships.

In the process, Harvard gained revenge on last year's bitter 62-51 loss--Cornell's first win over the Crimson in 73 years.

The meet also put the squad back on track for Eastern, which are only 16 days away. Harvard has captured the Eastern meet in each of the previous eight years but could get its toughest challenge from a fired-up Princeton squad.

"This is an entirely different team than the one which lost to Princeton last week," Harvard Co-Captain Lars Reierson said. "People are now aware of what it's going to take to win Eastern this year. It's not going to be easy, but it's going to happen."

In an attempt to qualify additional swimmers from both teams for Easterns, Harvard and Cornell swam an alternate program which included such uncommon events as a 1650 freestyle and a 400 medley relay (determined by the results of four individual races).

But the change in format posed no problem for the Crimson, which was never seriously challenged by the Big Red squad.

Junior Jeff Peter led the Crimson charge with three individual victories. Peltier took the 100 and 200 backstroke events, as well as the 400 individual medley.

Junior Chris Smith was a double-winner for Harvard in the meet, as was freshman Jim Lutz. smith capture the 50-and 100-yd. freestyle races, while Lutz controlled the breaststroke events, winning both the 100-and 200-yd. races

Freshman Kresimir Peharda claimed the 100 butterfly, although it counted only as part of the medley relay, as did the 100-yd. backstroke and breaststroke races.

John Pearson snagged first place in the 1650 freestyle and Jim Kornish followed suit with his victory in the 200 freestyle. Bill Bird nabbed the 200 butterfly by more than five seconds, while John Ritch took the top spot in the 500 freestyle.

The Harvard women's swimming team extended its