Ohio State Captures NCAA Swim Championship Over Michigan, Yale

OXFORD, Ohio, March 28--Crimson swimming couldn't match the national collegiate best as well as expected in the third day of the NCAA meet here this afternoon and evening. The team slipped from fourth the sixth place in the final point standings.

The varsity's sole scoring effort today was a second by Dave Hawkins in the 200-yard butterfly.

Ohio State set a 2.42.2 American and intercollegiate medley relay record, captured eight first places, and piled up 90 points to take the championship.

Yale came up from third place to tie the University of Michigan for second place with 51 points, followed by North Carolina State's 20, North Carolina's 17, and the Crimson's 15.

Iowa and Oklahoma were close behind with 14 points each, ahead of Iowa State with 13, and Stanford at 11.

Hawkins did a 2:19.6 in his butterfly time trial as compared to Bumpy Jones of Michigan's 2:17 flat. He had his eye on Jones in the next lane to him in the final and beat him, but he couldn't see one lane beyond to North Carolina's Phil Drake, who cut his 2.21 trial time down to 2:13.7 and won the event. Dave Armstrong of Yale finished sixth.

Hawkins did a 2:13.3 in the same race at the Eastern's last Saturday, but this weekend his dolphin kick wasn't working so well, and he was forced to revert to the standard frog.

The Crimson medley relay team of Alan Rapperport, Sigo Falk, and Jim Jorgensen didn't reach the finals in the event. The slowest qualifying time was 2:53.6, but the varsity couldn't duplicate its fastest chalking of the season, 2:53.1 against Yale.

Choutean Dyer missed qualifying for the 100 by two-tenths of a second with a 52.8 trial clocking. Yale's Rex Aubrey won the event in 50.1, ahead of John Glover of Dartmouth.