Quakers Trounce Swimmers, 77-36

Last month Mike Cahalan reflected on the Penn swimming meet and said, "We can take a bath down there if we don't watch it," and Saturday Harvard took that bath, losing to the Quakers, 77-36.

It was the fourth Eastern League loss for the Crimson, so the best finish the team can hope for is fifth place. The only dual meet left is with Yale Saturday in the IAB.

Saturday's meet in Philadelphia was never close. Harvard won only two events-the one-meter and three-meter dives, and the first of those came after Penn had rolled up a 32-11 lead. It probably would have been slightly closer if the Crimson freestyler Dave Powlison hadn't had to stay home with the flu.

Diver Dave Silver was the top performer for Harvard. winning both his events for ten of his team's 36 points. He had scores of 230.75 and 281.05. The Crimson earned four more of its points from a second and third by diver Tom Wallace.

Steve Krause, Tim Chetin, and Cahalan came the closest to winning other events for Harvard. Krause turned in close seconds in both the 1000-free (10.07.8) and the butterfly (2:00.3). Chetin lost by a second in the medley (2:05.5). and Cahalan was touched out by Penn's Steve Kowal in the 50-free (21.8).

"How Penn beat Yale is no deep, dark secret," Harvard coach Bill Brooks said yesterday. Two weeks ago the Quakers topped Yale. 66-49. On the bulletin board behind Brooks was one of the Quakers' red and blue bumper stickers: "Who Are Those Guys? Penn Swimming?"