Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three-bout winners for the Crimson team were foil men Jan Jertson and Captain Eric Sollee and saber men Harry Ziel and Byron Morton. Steve Chandler took two bouts in the foil division as did George McNair in the epee competition. Bob McConaughy, Warren Stone, Jack "Windmill" Smith, Les Scherer, Phil Erard, and Ivan Chermayeff completed the varsity lineup...
...soft-spoken native of France, with eyes that pierce like a well-thrust foil, Peroy has amazed, taught, and endeared himself to Harvard fencers for the past twenty-three years. Student don't go to the Indoor Athletic Building just to fence, they go to fence with Peroy. If he coached high-jumping, they claim, they would switch to that. Modest as he is, Peroy is forced to admit that "when the boys found out I was retiring after this year, they started to lose interest in fencing...
...been Peroy's chief interest since his youth. Born and educated in Paris, he came to America in 1909 to teach the use of the sabre to American army officers. "They had to come three times a week, just like freshmen in Physical Training." He fought on the American foil team in the 1928 Olympics, and started coaching at Harvard the next year. Even his mechanical skills--he helped design and build the motor of Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis--have been useful in his life's sport. He designed the special practice mechanisms in the fencing room...
...varsity fencers defeated a team made up from several of the University graduate schools, 20 to 7, last Saturday. Eric Sollee and Steve Chandler paced the Crimson to the win with sweep of their three bouts. Both competed in the foil division...
Frederic March is introduced more as a foil and a cohesive force for the other players than for any contribution of his own towards the "appearance-reality" conflict. He plays a bluff, well-meaning fool, who, through no fault of his own, manages to compromise the only woman in the play whom he doesn't care for. The insignificant problem which he has created is magnified by the Romantic Contingent for their own ends, and at length disrupts the marriage plans of an innocent young couple...