Swimmers Take GBC Title; Team Wins 12 of 13 Firsts

The Harvard swimming team, with most of its stars back home preparing for Penn, Yale, the Easterns and the NCAA's, took the bus down to MIT Monday and Tuesday and brought back the GBC crown the Engineers stole from the Crimson last year.

Last year MIT, through a combination of inept and biased officiating and Crimson complacency, were lucky enough to grab first, although Harvard had then as now a squad far superior to any in the Boston area. This year, however, coach Don Gambril, not particularly wanting another embarassing loss, sent a representative team capable of winning every event. His swimmers responded by taking all but one race, just enough to beat the Engineers.

Going Away

In the medley relay the team of Paul Scott, Jim Smith, Hess Yntema, and Mark Depman won going away. Roy Geronemous, who was the Crimson's leading scorer in the contest, took the 1000-yd. freestyle in a personal season best time of 10:39.6.

Jim Davis won easily in the 200-yd. free with a 1:51 plus effort, while freshman Depman came back to take the 50-yd. free in 23.0. Harvard failed to qualify anyone in the 200-yd., in which any of a half dozen varsity swimmers could have won but were not entered, but the Crimson divers, Dave English and John Zakotnick, countered with a one-two in the 1-meter dive.

Second Win

Geronemous took his second win of the day in the 200-yd. fly, while junior Paul Scott's 50.1 was good enough for the first place in the 100-yd. free. Yntema, who would have blown everyone else out of the pool in almost any race he decided to swim, moved to the 200-yd. back and won easily.

Davis took his second freestyle race of the meet with a first in the 500-yd. free, and a sub-par Jim Smith fought off sickness and choppy water in the outside lane to win the 200-yd. breaststroke to clinch first place in the meet for Harvard.

The duo of English and Zakotnik again swept, this time in the 3-meter competition with English's total qualifying him for the NCAA's in March at Knoxville, Tenn. Finally, the 400-yd. free relay won easily to complete the Crimson scoring.