University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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VARSITY Coach Torney; Managers Hart, Young; Goldberg, Langevin, Randies, Personette, Yoke, Manager Pierre Koke. Wilcox, Hoeppner, Borkman. Andrews, Caddey, Diving Coach Buckley Capt. Hoskins The most powerful team in Washington swimming history, crushed all opposition to capture the Northern Division cham- pionship for the first time since 1934. In taking the crown, Coach Jack Torney ' s men set 18 pool, 26 meet, 5 Northern Division, and 2 Pa cific Coast Conference records. In the Idaho dual meet new marks were made in every swimming event. Breaststroker Gene Caddey and Captain Franz Hoskins, back- stroker, are the new Pacific Coast Conference record holders. Caddey twice smashed the best previous time in the 100-yard backstroke, hanging up a new mark of 1:06.6 for the dislame. Hoskins tied the record of 1 :05.4 for the 100-yard backstroke. New Northern Division records were set in the 300-yard medley relay by a team of Hoskins, Caddey, and George Per- sonette; and in the 400-yard freestyle by Caddey, Personette, Hoskins, and Dean McAdams. McAdams set another record for the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24 seconds flat. In addi- tion Washington scored 219 points to their opponents ' 81 in Northern Division dual competition. Letter winners were Hoskins, Caddey, Personette, Randies, McAdams. Bill Langevin. Bill Wilcox. Bill Yake, Fred Hoepp- ner, Mack Bockman. Pete Goldberg. Wally Holden. Leonard Koke. and Bud Andrews. Reserves were Bill Bird. Dick Becker. Irv Dailey. Bill Dick. Dick Failor. Ken Hilton. .lim Lewis, and Bud Swarz. 213

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Leit: Capl. Franz Hoskins hands out the towels from the cage in the Huskies ' new pool. Below: Mentor Jack Torney answers the phone in the control room while Vic Cur ran does a little extra studying. The pool was constructed with funds gained from Washington ' s share in the Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1, 1937, augmented by State and Federal grants, and is located at the east end of the athletic pavilion. Seventy-five feet long, and 42 feet wide, the pool has six seven-foot lanes for use in champion- ship competition. It holds 186,000 gallons of water, which is completely changed and purified every six hours. The seating capacity is between 1,000 and 1,200 persons, and indirect lighting is used through- out. The shallow end is four feet deep, while the deep end measures 12 feet. Official dedication took place March 24, when the Huskies swept through all opposition to take the Northern Division swimming title. Some of the outstanding competitors in the country competed in the Far Western AAU championship held there this spring. Two Huskies set to plunge into the pool from beneath the diving board at the north end. George Personette receives instruction in the use of the new automatic pacer from Coach Torney. The pacer was invented by Bill Bond of WSC and was invaluable to the championship Husky team this year. 1 1

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FROSH SWIMMING Coach Reeves, Managers Needhani, Plank, Diving Coach Buckley Fay, Krislnferson, Liirir, Sheehan, Andreivs, Monroe, Eckdahl, Brown, Miller, Suzuki, Knight, O ' Hearn, Athans, Curran, Strnub, Fox Winning nearly every meet in wliicli lliey participated, the University of Washington freshman swimming team gave a fine account of itself for the 1939 season. Under Frosh Coach Spence Reeves, the Frosh showed plenty of potentialities for next year ' s varsity. (Jeorge Athans, Canadian National Diving Champion, proved himself to he one of the hnest diving prospects ever to enter Washington, and along with red-headed Bill O ' Hearn gave sev- eral exhihitions at varsity meets. Other potent niemhers of the squad who should show well with the varsity next year are: Boh Lee, Vic Curran, llerh Knight, Boh F.ikdahl. Don Fox and .Stn Miinro. 214