Word: elys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...through a series of incredible third-period collapses, and a general malaise that many at New Haven, including one former Yale starter, attribute to dissatisfaction with coach Dick Gagliardi, Yale's season has degenerated into ruin, as it usually does by this time. The Eli record is 9-13, and the squad has lost five straight games...
...captain Bob Kasting, has traditionally been the powerhouse squad in the Ivy league, but coach Phil Moriarty's superiority in the East is beginning to crumble. Last year Penn, which at one time had so little talent that they shaved down for Columbia, surfaced to beat the Eli for the first time and in the process ended a string of Yale championships at nine...