Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...varsity fencing team came close but could not win more than two bouts at foil, and so lost its third Ivy League match to Princeton, 16-11. Saturday afternoon...
Unlike the Penn match the previous week which Harvard lost 20-7, the Crimson battled the Tiger's halfway into the final round. Three Crimson losses at the foil in that round clinched the Princeton victory and squelched Harvard's chances for an upset...
...victories in the saber at the start of the second round sparked the Crimson. Keller won a close match in the foil, 5-4. Reitz and Mark Irvings, both won their epee bouts, 5-3, and Eliot Hurwitz nearly won his match before finally losing...
Princeton lost to the Quakers last month, 15-12. The Tigers won six out of nine bouts at the foil, but could manage only six out of 18 bouts in the saber and the epee...
Princeton's weakness at the saber is well covered by its awesome strength at the foil. The Tiger foilers have easily defeated such strong teams as C. C. N. Y. and Penn. Harvard has had trouble barely winning a bout against these schools...