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From the opening moments of the first round, when the strong Crimson sabre squad swept the first three bouts to give Harvard a quick 3-0 lead, the outcome of the match was never in doubt. The foil and epee teams followed by winning four of the next six contests to give Harvard a commanding 7-2 lead at the end of the first round...
Unfortunately for Harvard fans, the rest of the team was unable to match the awesome performance of the sabre men. Neither the foil nor the epee squad was able to win a majority of its bouts...
Harvard's foil men--facing, in Cornell, one of the Ivy League's strongest foil squads--were unable to generate much of a winning effort, losing seven of nine bouts...
Dave Fichter, who has carried the Crimson foil squad through much of this year, picked up one victory for Harvard. Don Valentine, won the other, but it was evident that he has yet to throw off the adverse effects of last semester's layoff...
...disappointed that we did not do better in foil," Marion said. "I expected much more...