Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Crimson captain Nancy Cooper dropped the first touch of the final bout in the Harvard women's fencing team's meet with Brandeis in Waltham last night, she needed to capture five straight points to give Harvard a one touch decision. Cooper garnered the fifth with ten seconds left on the clock...
Spinks' early competition came straight from Palookaville. He easily dispatched his first opponent, a Brooklyn butcher named Lightning Bob Smith. Three first-round K.O.s followed, and in fight No. 5, Spinks' competitor withdrew at the last minute. A standin, signed just hours before the scheduled bout, left in a stupor after three rounds. By then, even Spinks' ho-hum matches against Journeyman Scott LeDoux and Italian Alfio Righetti could not dim his TV marketability...
With the Crimson down 5-4 after a heartening victory by Leslie Feder, who also chalked up 1-3, Sze lost a particularly crucial bout. After climbing back from 4-3 to tie the duel at 4-4, she fell to Yale's Peacock...
Cooper had one 5-4 loss, to Yale's Jennifer Albert in her second bout. Distracted by some controversy on the nearby men's strip over a particular call, Cooper's concentration wavered and Albert took advantage...
Harvard still had a slim chance of eking out a victory, and Tony Cimmarusti kept those hopes alive by pinning Jeff Linson at 4:15 in the 177-lb. bout for six more Crimson points...