Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last bout in the ECAC foil finals yesterday, Gene Vastola would shake his opponent's hand only after considerable persuasion from the director. As it turned out, a particularly unsportsmanlike knee to the groin (at least if it was deliberate) had provoked the Crimson skipper's unfriendliness...
McNamara beat Pantel and Vastola, and then the Crimson captain lost his final bout against Cornell's Dan Budofsky. The crowd was disappointed...
Princeton, the overall winner, finished with 79 bout victories, and Penn placed second with 77. Harvard collected but 48 bouts as all too often Crimson fencers who seemed on the verge of sealing a victory would fall on the short side of a 5-4 score...
Only captain Gene Vastola survived the preliminary rounds (which determined the team champions), and even he made it to the finals by only the barest of margins (see column at left). Once in the finals, Vastola, who had a shot at third until his last bout, placed sixth...
Even when an questionable call mars a bout at a critical point, Vastola, practicing what he preaches, manages to keep his lid on. "A good fencer should be like a horse with blinkers, concentrating on the fencing, not the director...