Word: foils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Rene Peroy's swordsmen run into a twelve-team thicket of opposition when they enter the Intercollegiate Fencing Association meet. Three representatives in each of the events, foil, epee, and saber will carry the Crimson standard in New York this weekend...
...hasn't the experience of last year's squad. George White, a Junior, has given the most promise in the epee, taking third place in the Intercollegiate Pentagonal, and much is hoped of him tomorrow. George Wilbur, a Sophomore who has shown great promise, is scheduled to fence foil, but he may fence in all three weapons...
With Captain Rowland Gaeta and John Thompson the only members of the Yardling squad who have had any previous experience, the '45 foilmen haven't done so well this season. Only Don Edwards in the foil and John Duke in the epee have shown marked improvement...
Fencing in the foil for the '45 team will be Edwards, Gaeta, and John Thompson; John Duke, Carl Johnson, Bob Miller, and Mart Singer in the epee, and Art DuBois, Kibbey Horne, and Carl Kuhlman in the sabre...
Last year, Harvard won first place in both the foil and saber divisions and came in second in epee. Crimson fencers also took first individual honors in foil and saber and second in epee. Navy came in second, Army third...