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With the score 13-8, epee fencer Steve Biddle had the honor of finishing the Elis off. He edged John Greenfield, 5-3, ending the bout by refusing to be duked by a Greenfield feint, parrying the Eli's blade to the right, then driving forward for a touch to the chest...
Enter first-year fencer Steve Biddle, a sophomore who took up the sport only a year earlier. The Crimson epeeman battled Dartmouth's top epeeman, Kai Christensen, in the nerve-racking decision-maker, and he scored a 5-2 win to give Harvard the match and a 4-1 record...
...Dartmouth's fault. If a cross-country skier, a fencer-folk-dancer, and a pole-vaulter hadn't decided to give modern dance a whirl in a class there in 1970, chances are no one else would ever have come up with what the book's photographer Tim Matson calls "a blend of dance, gymnastics, mime, circus and sculpture." Since then, the original group has evolved into a brash, astonishing, stubbornly unclassifiable performance company of three men and two women, with a home base in Connecticut and a touring schedule which skims them halfway around the globe...
...Foil fencer Mike Gilson almost matched his captain's performance, edging his first two opponents, 5-4, before falling, 5-2, in a clash which gave Army its match-clinching 14th bout. Gilson had switched grips earlier in the week; the change appeared to give him better overall blade control...
After dropping two of her first five touches to Loretta Jeffries, the only Rhode Island fencer who moved back and forth on the balls of her feet rather than clomping up and down like a flat-footed Frankenstein, Lowry captured 18 of her last 19 points in winning all four of her bouts...