{"id":776,"date":"2013-04-16T21:05:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=776"},"modified":"2013-04-16T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:05:58","slug":"athletic-hall-of-fame-1953-boys-swimming-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/04\/16\/athletic-hall-of-fame-1953-boys-swimming-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Hall of Fame: 1953 Boys Swimming Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/04\/1953boysswimming1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-804\" title=\"1953boysswimming\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/04\/1953boysswimming1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/04\/1953boysswimming1.png 410w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/04\/1953boysswimming1-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/04\/1953boysswimming1-395x300.png 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a>In 1953, the boys swimming team was among the strongest in the nation. Led by Coach Wilmot Babcock, the swimmers had an average meet score of 48.1-25.7 (+22.4) and formed one of the top 10 teams in the country \u2014 on a list that included colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Among the accolades the swimming team garnered that year were the national prep records for the 100 freestyle, 200 free, 200 free relay, and 150 medley relay. Team members would set nine pool records for the 50 free (Harlow \u201cChip\u201d Ide \u201855), 100 free (Rex Aubrey \u201853), 150 IM (Don Miller), and the medley relay.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At the heart of the team were swimmers such as Mr. Aubrey \u2014 who would later become a national champion in the 50 free and 100 free, and an Olympian, representing Australia, in 1952. The team also included Jack Erickson \u201853, a New England champion in diving, and three other All Americans: Don Miller (100 breast), Ed FitzSimmons \u201853 (150 IM Relay, 200 Free, 100 Free, 200 Free Relay), and Theodore \u201cSkip\u201d Kurrus \u201853 (200 free, 100 free, 200 free relay).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony, dinner, and reception will be held on Saturday, June 8, 2013. Register to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/sslpage.aspx?pid=2815\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1953, the boys swimming team was among the strongest in the nation. Led by Coach Wilmot Babcock, the swimmers had an average meet score of 48.1-25.7 (+22.4) and formed one of the top 10 teams in the country \u2014 on a list that included colleges. Among the accolades the swimming team garnered that year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/04\/16\/athletic-hall-of-fame-1953-boys-swimming-team\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletic Hall of Fame: 1953 Boys Swimming Team<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[313,46],"tags":[329,330,331,323],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletic-hall-of-fame","category-athletics-news","tag-1953-boys-swimming-team","tag-boys-swimming","tag-coach-babcock","tag-swimming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}