Yalemen Defeat Swimmers 77-34; Diving Champion Murphy Injured

What should have been a relatively carefree final meet for Harvard's varsity swimming team ended in tragedy Saturday at Yale.

Diver Bill Murphy, last year's Eastern Seaboard three meter diving champion, hit his head on the board while doing an inward flip, his fourth dive of the day, in the three meter event. The junior champion broke his nose and suffered deep cuts across the brow of his head.

Although he is all right now after spending Saturday night in the hospital in New Haven, Murphy will be unable to dive in this year's Eastern Seaboard championship which begins Thursday at Princeton. Murphy was favored to repeat as Eastern champion and had a good chance to finish high in the NCAA meet March 17 at Yale.

The final score, 77-34, went unnoticed as Murphy's accident cast a pall over the crowd and swimmers.

Murphy had been diving better than ever before. He compiled 293.8 points to win the one meter event and received scores of eight and nine on some of his dives. He was already running away with the three meter event when he reached too far for a top in his dive and failed to leave enough distance between himself and the end of the board.

Murphy accounted for one of only three firsts Harvard got during the day.

The other two firsts for Harvard came in the 100-yard medley relay, where the Yale team was disqualified for a false start, and in the 100-yard free style, where Pete Adams' 49.2 was good enough to win.

Other than the three Harvard wins it was Yale's meet all the way. Don Schol- lander, swimming in the last dual meet of his college career, was the least of Harvard's worries as he won the 500 freestyle with a relatively slow 4:50.6. Harvard's Bill Shrout was able to keep the pace for about 14 laps of the 20-lap race but in the end Schollander pulled away with easy grace, scarcely rippling the water.

Shrout drew Schollander in the 500-free and sophomore John Nelson in the 1000-free. Nelson cut three seconds off Schollander's record in the 100 and won it with a 10:04.0.

For the freshmen the story was different. Mike Cahalan, Steve Krause, John Munk, and John Burris helped prove that Harvard did indeed belong in the same pool with the Eli giants.

It took records to win. Krause tied a freshman record in the 500-free for a Crimson victory and won with the Harvard-record-breaking time of 2:02.3 in the 200 Individual Medley. Burris broke a freshman record in the 200-backstroke with a 2:12.9. Harvard may have its first respectable backstroker since 1962.

Cahalan swam within .2 seconds of the freshman record in the 50-free to tie an Eli for first. For Munk, however, a Harvard record time of 1:57.3 in the 200-fly, was not good enough. He was edged out in the last part of the race by Yale's Paul Katz who broke a national freshman record with a 1:57.1. Still the Yardlings lost to the Elis, 55-39.

So the swimming season ended on twin notes of tragedy and promise. The Eastern Seaboard Championships start Thursday at Princeton, but without Murphy Crimson hopes are dim