Sophomores Aid in Attempt To Extend Swim Victories

Six sophomores are varsity swimming coach Hal Ulen's unexpected stock dividends as he attempts to extend an unbeaten record in meets with Navy, Dartmouth, and Princeton--Navy here Saturday. He should succeed--until the Yale meet, that is, and even then he won't go down easily.

Ulen opened the 1955 season with six major assets: Dave Hawkins, who is so good in every event that he could virtually be the coach's whole portfolio; Alan Rapperport in the backstroke; and a block of talent in the free style that must even capture Yale's interest--Jim Jorgensen, Jack (Knife) Edwards, Captain Ted Whatley, and Gus Johnson.

Hawkins is not only good, but he is continually improving. In the opening meet of the year against Army he swam the 150-yard individual medley in 1:32.1 to set a new West Point pool mark and break the old Crimson record of 1:34.8 which he himself set last year.

Edwards, Whatley, and Jorgensen combined with one of Ulen's sophomore dividends, Chouteau Dyer to set a 400-yard free style relay record in the next meet, against M.I.T.; they sped the distance in 3:41 flat to chop 1.4 seconds off a Crimson mark set in 1952.

Another sophomore showed that the orthodox breast stroke, reinstated in college competition, would not leave the Crimson chasing butterflies by setting a third record. Sigo Falk, last year's freshman captain, churned the 200 yards in 2:36.6 to break a 1934 mark of 2:37.

Still another pair of sophomores, Pete Macky and Stu Ogden, who were only expected to supply second-place points, have shown that the can also finish first. Two more improving sophomores are Bill Hoadley in the breast stroke and Jon Lind in the 100.