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Vol. 8, No. 2 February, 1967 CONTENTS Page The Kiphuth Era ............................ 3 For CompetitiveSwimmers & Divers-AgeGr0up-High Sch0oi.College The Breaststroke of Chet Jastremskl, 12618 KiUion St. * North Hollywood, Calif.--91607 By Dr. James Counsilman .................. 4, 5 Tel. POplar 6-3427 ~ TRiangle 7-5028 Hall of Fame Meet and Forum Report ............ 6, 7 Published monthly • Subscription price $5.00 per year Jr. College Swimming Forecasts, Rural! Fore!99. Subecriptlons-T$6.00 a Year by inlernatlonal PostaI.Mowsy Order By Gene Hatfield ....................... 9, 10 Albert Schoenfield Peter Daland Swimmers of the Month ....... ............... 12 Editor 0 Publisher Technical Advisor Faye Schoenfield Jack Roth Meet of the Month .......................... 13 Circulation 0 Business Mgr. Diving Editor Water Polo All America Teams ................. 14 Gene Hatfield James R. Smith Calendar of Events .......................... 42 Jr. College Editor Water Polo Roy Grimshaw Top High School, Prep and CoUege Times Vo,eig, Editor AdvisoryBoard of the Season ........................... 46, 47 i i Dr. Hal Henning Harry Hainsworth Fins Bureau A.A.U. Aquatic Director Ahem added, "It was no miracle. Nor was the transfor- Edward Olson Edward J. Leibinger mation born overnight. It was his revolutionary thinking: National Age Group National Interscholastic Swimming Chairman " Swimming Coaches Assoc. political maneuvering, iron will, and persuasion which Ken Treadway William Lippman, Jr. brought the sport to the peak which it enjoys today." Chairman National Ebairman National Women's Swimming Men's Swimming It was his proven theory that conditioned teams were the ones that triumphed, and his bo~ybuildingprograms became OFFICIAL @ r OFFICIALMAGAZINE the pilot for every program in vogue today. MAGAZINE NATIONAL He served as a coach of the 1928 American Women's AMERICAN Olympic Swimming Team, and served as head coach for the SWIMMING INTERSCHOLASTIC American Olympic Teams in 1932, 1936, and 1948. In the COACHES SWIMMINGCOACHES latter, for the first time in history, the American Men's ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION Team won first place in every event. But it was these travels that brought Kiphuth to full bloom. It gave him the oppor- tunity to visit countries in the far corners of the globe. He Representatives was quick to impart his knowledge, and even quicker to ob- Pater [. Kennedy, Waterbury, Conn. serve and retain the best styles of his hosts. He was the H. C. Alien, Avondsle Estates, Genrliu Miss Rosamri Vanwert, Puynllup, Wash. supervising authority on no less than 19 foreign trips, and Mrs. Carolyn Anderson Tampa, Fla. Mrs. C. H. Grsndstaff, Dewey, Okla. Lt. Col. L. E. Hugcod, Fa s Church, Vs. Preston Fuirlsmb, Fay,on Lake, N.J. still he had time to serve the NCAA and the AAU through- Jerry Bydr Shreveport, Ln. Buck Dawson, Ft. Laudsrdale, Fla. out his lifetime. V. Mel S. Kaufmenn, Minneepo s, Minn. Furio Lettich, Europe Ken Puttiiprew, Glencco, III. Miss Franks Ann Bell, Charlotte, N.C. Kiphuth wrote as well as he coached. Countless articles Mrs. William Greene, Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. June Krsusar, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. on swimming and physical education appeared in American Mrs. Thomas G. B. Ebert, Rydsl, Penn. Mrs. Olive Muchs, Portland, Oral[on Mrs. Lue Smith, Mt. Lebanon, Penn. Mrs. GenrEe K. Leonard, Nashville, Tenn. and EngLish magazines, wlth translations in countless lan- Andrew J. Lee. Mishawaks, ind. Mrs. June Ferguson, Stockton, Calit. guages. His book, "Swimming" has been the sport's best Mrs. Esther Schilllnsky, Oekland~ Calif. Mrs. B. Allen Richardson, Honolulu Joe Statz, New York, "N.Y. Will Keller, Cincinnati, Ohio seller since the first printing in 1942. Published monthly by SWIMMING WORLD.JUNiOR SWIMMER, No. Hollywood, Calif., In 1951, Bob Kiphuth started to edit and publish SWIM- U.S.A. Second class postaEe paid st No. Holl)ewcod, Calif., and nt additional MING WORLD. A year later, his young assistant coach, rmlilins offices. Rates: 50c a COl?y; $5.00 • year, in the United States. All other countries $6.00 a year. Foreign subscriptions .and sales should be remitted Peter Daland started to publish JUNIOR SWIMMER. The by internatiensi Money Order in U.S. funds payable st North H.oil.ywo~., California. two publications gave the United States the catalytic media, Pub shed by Swmminlf World, 12610 Killion Street: Norm .llO.llyWOOO, ..~.llr; 91607 Note: Perm asian to reprint articles or excerpts rrom conrents is pron,nireo a go-between for the thousands who were now competing without permission from the publisher. © SwimminR World -- Jr. Swimmer, from the infant age group program to the thousands in high February, ,1967, CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Send both addressee to SWIMMING WORLD,-12618 KIIlion Street, North Hall)inroad, California 91607, 5 weeks before schools, colleges, and open senior class. moving day. Be sure to include zip number. To enumerate the high points of Bob Kiphuth's life would be nigh impossible. Certainly no one will ever forget the great intersectional meet in the time of Howls Johnson when BOB K IPHUTH Yale won aLi I0 first places; or the great courage displayed The Beginning and the End by Jeff Farreli, who because of his faith in Kiphuth, came back three days after an emergency appendectomy, to make of Swimming's Greatest Era the 1960 Olympic team; or the fantastic performance by Sufficient words can never be written to fully recognize Steve Clark, then coached by his loyal protege, Phil Moriarty, the contributions, the teachings and the ideals that Robert as he lowered the American 100 yard freestyle time to a J. H. (Bob) Kiphuth imparted to the swimming world. There fantastic 45.6 in Kiphuth's beloved Payne Whimsy Natator- is no phase in our sport, or sectionof the world that did not ium. benefit from the wisdom and the unmatched devotion of this Only three years ago, Bob Kiphuth was presented with the little giant, who came out of the YMCA of Tonawanda, New Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. York to Yale at New Haven to give the sport of Swimming On January 7, Kiphuth was on hand to see his Eli squad, the greatest transformation it ever experienced.., all by led by Don Schollander, avenge their last University loss, one man. Bob Kiphuth was to swimming and to Yale, what be defeating the cadets from West Point. He enjoyed the Knute Rockne was to football and Notre Dame. victory and went home for his last sleep. Competitive swimming and Yale will enjoy more great The SWIMMING WORLD family which brings you our eras, but none will have the aura of Kiphuth... the legend magazine is a smaU and closely knitone, and when someone that made his name synonymous to swimming, to Yale, and drops out, his absence is keenly felt. We took over from American Olympic Teams. Bob Kiphuth the editing and publishing of SWIMMING WORLD It was Robert J. H. Kiphuth who came to Yale right after with the June 1961 issue, after revitalizing Daland's JUNIOR World War I following another great coach, Matt Mann, who SWIMMER. had moved on to Michigan to teach and instruct physical We are particularly shaken by the sudden death of Bob education. When he retired in 1959 as full professor, after Kiphuth. Bob continued to contribute foreign news and many a 41-year career, his teams had won 520 dual meets and other items that were of extreme interest to the swimming lost only 12. He coached Yale to four NCAA Championships world. His mature judgement and enlightened sensitivity as and 14 National AAU Championships. well as an enormous store of swimming experience helped But Kiphuth's contribution tO the sport far outweighed give us the guidance to make our publication what it is today. his record number of victories. He was endlessly enthusiastic about SWIMMING WORLD, its Bill Ahern of the New Haven Register said it succinctly, aims and its future. It is our profound and personal loss "He was the authority that put the sport on its feet and took that he will no longer be making his notable contribution it from the drabness of the underwater plunge to the excite- to us and the swimming world. ment of freestyle and butterfly strokes." COVER: ROBERTJ.H. KIPHUTH -Page 3 .