Word: foil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson fencers yesterday breezed past Trinity, 16 to 11, without even using their top players. Although losing overall in foil and epee, the 8-1 sabre victory gave Harvard the margin of victory and raised the fencers' overall record to seven wins and five losses...
...foil squad also posted a 4-5 record against Trinity. John Nelson and Jai Yuh both took two of three matches in the only foil wins. Fred Boersma and Red Williams were both shut out by their Trinity opponents...
Captain Larry Johnson, who normally uses the foil, may fence epee today to bolster the squad. The epee team could tak only one of nine matches against Penn but must come through with several victories today...
Without Johnson the consistently weak foil team seems destined for another shutout. The foilmen lost every bout to end the Penn disaster Saturday...
Harvard's fencing team suffered an astounding 23-4 loss at the hands of Pennsylvania Saturday. The usually strong sabre squad won only three of nine bouts, two of them by All-Ivy candidate John Piel. The epee squad took but a single match and the foil team ended the disaster by losing every bout...