Word: bennett
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Foil fencer Philippe Bennett and sabre man Gordon Rutledge, kingpins on Harvard's Ivy co-champion fencing team this year, saved their finest performances for the final competition of the season, capturing All-America honors last week at the NCAA Championships at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio...
...Bennett, who was seeded 11th in foil after the preliminary round of competition, finished fifth overall, and Rutledge, seeded ninth going into the finals, captured sixth. The top six individuals in each weapon qualify for the All-American fencing squad...
...Bennett and Rutledge followed identical paths to All-American standing. In the opening round both Harvard performers captured 7 out of 10 bouts, and in the two-day finals they ran up 16-7 bouting marks to finish...
...basis of Bennett and Rutledge's strong showing, Harvard finished 11th in team standings in a field of 54, despite the fact that Crimson epee representative Eugene White failed to qualify for the finals...
Marion said that Bennett and Rutledge might have finished even higher had the two Harvard fencers not suffered from lapses in concentration. "Both Gordon and Philippe lost three bouts that they should never have lost," Marion said...