Word: fencer
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...foil fencers move together, their blades meet, there is a flurry of action and the director (i.e. referee) shouts "halt." He glances at the electric lights that indicate whether a fencer has been touched and both the red and green are lighted. He stands puzzled, trying to decide who attacked first, and thus should get the point. His deliberation is interrupted by a shout from the Harvard sideline, "Nice attack, Anne." The director, his memory refreshed, relaxes and remarks confidently, "there's an attack from the right, touch for Harvard...
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But one thing is for sure, work or not, manipulating the director's calls, or, as it is called in the trade, "fencing the director" is an activity which occupies the thoughts of coaches and fencers for more than a little time. For as often as not a fencer's loss is due not to his incompetence but to that of the director. Just ask any fencer...
...lead. Then Lowry gathered three touches within ten seconds, using her strength to force her way though parries for the last two points. After Stein tied it at 4-4, Lowry won the bout, extracting her blade from a tie up with Stein's and poking the MIT fencer in the belly...
Despite the absence of star fencer Eric Mandelbaum, the foil team led the way for the Crimson capturing all nine of their bouts. Freshman Dave Hanower lost only three points as he went...
...captain Nancy Cooper said after the meet, the point against less experienced opposition is not to "show what an elegant, multi-feinted fencer you are, because then your confused opponent will merely stick her blade out and watch you run onto...