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Harvard's fencing team, riding a nine-match winning streak and seeking its highest finish ever in the Ivy League, travels to New Haven today to face a surprisingly strong Eli squad...
Despite the strong showing of the Yale sabre squad this year. Crimson coach Edo Marion does not feel that the Eli will be a match for Harvard in the event...
Harvard should have a distinct advantage in foil and epee. Yale is led in foil by Larry Smolley, but the calibre of the foil men drops drastically after that. In epee, the Crimson should have a field day. Yale Sports Information describes the Eli foil team as "our weakest link," and Geza Tetrallyay, Ken Bartels and Eugene White should find little opposition to total domination...
Yale managed to remain in contention during the early part of the second period, but three penalties in the first seven minutes disrupted its unity, and Harvard began to run the Eli ragged. McManama scored again on the power play on a pass from Dave Hynes at 9:10, and Bob Havern, with a remarkable display of stickhandling, beat two Yale defenders and Fitzsimmons for Harvard's third goal a minute and twelve seconds later...
Soon after the next faceoff, Hurtubise and D'Arcy Ryan, Yale's leading scorer, collided in the Eli zone while going after Harvard's Mark Noonan. Hurtubise, bleeding profusely, took 20 stitches in his face. Ryan left the game with a groin injury, and although he returned briefly later. Yale was finished. Harvard's Tom Paul scored at 14:48, and linemate Bob Goodenow added a fifth goal midway through the third period...