Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weekend of disappointment for Harvard's fencing team. Co-champions in the Ivy League and Ivy weapon titlists in foil and epee, the Crimson straggled home a dismal seventh in the final standings of the IFA Eastern fencing championships Friday and Saturday...
Friday, disappointment centered on Harvard's foil and epee teams, which punted away their chances to finish in the money. On Saturday, Harvard's frustration story belonged to Gordon Rutledge, the Crimson's lone legitimate contender in sabre competition...
...Crimson did not sent a single foil or epee fencer up to the finals, which will be held this afternoon. All-Ivy performers Eugene White (epee) and Phillipe Bennett (foil), both fencing in the tough first pool of their weapons, failed to make the cutoff for the finals. White, the individual Ivy champion in epee, had to struggle to break even yesterday and wound up in sixth place in his pool with a 6-6 bouting record...
...biggest surprise of the competition came from MIT, which captured the individual team title in foil. Paced by Swedish Olympic team member Johan Akerman, the Engineers ran up 26 wins to bring the foil title back to New England for the first time since 1931. Harvard was the last New England squad to capture the "Iron Man" trophy for the IFA foil title...
Harvard's don Valentine (foil) and Eric Read (epee), along with Bennett, were the most consistent Crimson performers, taking 7 out of 12 bouts each. Read finished in fifth place in the second pool competition and Valentine wound up seventh in pool three...