Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson captain Terry Valenzuela and foil man Dave Fichter led the Crimson attack, sweeping three bouts apiece. Valenzuela was particularly impressive, scoring a third round shutout and coming back from a 3-0 deficit in the second stanza to score five straight touches for a 5-3 triumph...
Fichter continued his career mastery over MIT with his performance and gave the sagging foil team a much needed boost in the arm. While Howie Weiss did take two out of three, Bennett just couldn't get straightened out, dropping his first two bouts in inglorious fashion. The foil squad, which Marion had hoped would be the major strength of his squad, continued to look unimpressive, adding another lax performance to its collection...
...particular concern to Marion must be the performance of his point weapon teams. Since the Christmas break, they have not performed well, except for the showing of Chris Jennings who is only now rounding into the form that made him a national under-nineteen champion in both foil and epee...
Against Princeton, the point weapons clearly cost Harvard an important Ivy win, losing five out of six bouts in the last round as the Tigers sent Harvard home empty-handed from the Ivy contest. Marion will be watching the Crimson foil and epee squads carefully tonight, scrutinizing the areas that he originally had felt would be strong for Harvard that are performing so poorly...
...needing to take but one of three foil bouts to win, Harvard's foil squad dropped three straight to give Princeton an important Ivy triumph. Dave Fichter followed the White script in his final round bout, grabbing a quick 3-0 lead, then losing, 5-3. "I thought David would be able to score two touches before the other fellow scored five, but fate was against us," Marion said...