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...final score--after three days of bouts with the finest squads in the country must have surprised even the most optimistic Crimson fencer When the "Alev" had sub sided and the duellers walked off the strip the Harvard team had tied for fifth place with Princeton their second highest national ranking ever...
Because the three strong individual performances, each fencer enters a final 24-man field in his respective division. The concluding two days of the tournament will become "an endurance test," according to Marshall, as each Crimson fencer prepares to duel all other 23 finalists. Each contestant will participate in 15 matches today and eight on Thursday. The swordsmen compiling the best overall record in each dueling category will be declared the victors...
...well in the finals," Marshall said last night. "Dave Heyman is our best shot because he--performed so well in the preliminaries, and because he was an All-American and has a good reputation." Marshall added that in sabre fencing, the judging plays a large role and a fencer's good reputation can influence the judges to give him an advantage...
With three fencers advancing to the finals, Harvard is deadlocked with 17 other schools for the lead. Ten other colleges have one or two fencers still remaining in the tournament. Fifty-five schools are taking part in the NCAA championship tourney, with 25 teams entering a fencer in all divisions. The three Harvard duelers qualified for the tournament with their outstanding ECAC performances...
...sport is an individual sports, but it's treated as a team-oriented sport here." Says Udo. "Often your times don't matter, just whether you win." All-American fencer Dave Heyman, originally from England, notes that although "it's just you and the other guy out there on the strip," in American fencing "you're fencing for the team, not for your self." Track co-captain Lenny Tron of Alberta says that while in Canada "the winning aspect of sports is just as great as in the U.S. Americans place extra emphasis on team performance. The "unfortunate" result...