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During practice last week, Crimson coach Edo Marion thought that his team had a good chance of defeating the Quakers if both the foil and saber squads were able to win six bouts each, and the epee team could manage to win two or three bouts. The foil and saber teams performed nearly as predicted. but the epee squad did not win even one bout...
...Crimson failed to win more epee bouts because two of its top stars did not compete at the weapon. Micky Irvings, co-captain, switched over to fence foil, and Geza Tattrallay, whose mobility was hampered this season by a bad knee, sat out his last two bouts when the joint became especially painful...
Fencing for the first time at foil, Irvings showed some unusual finesse as he won all three bouts, allowing his opponents only one touch. Dave Fichter and Ron Bernstein each won two out of three bouts. All-American Tom Keller, who injured his hand in amateur competition Sunday, did not make the trip...
...Harvard sabermen were so much better than their Hilltepper counter-parts that they were able to finish all nine bouts in about as much time as it took the foil team, fencing on another strip, to fence three bouts. "We were done so quickly, that we spent most-of our time practicing at the other end of the gym. We didn't even see the rest of the match," Larry Cetrulo, the Crimson's number one saber man, said last-night...
Irvings praised two team members, foil Don Valentine and saber Ken Hetzler, for their weekend efforts. "They both have been improving steadily all season long," Irvings said...