Word: foils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubtful just what Wednesday night's interlude with the New England Foil Team Competition proved for the Varsity fouching team. The 5-2 loss of Harvard's representatives against opposition composed entirely of M.I.T. men certainly does not forecast a defeat at their hands in dual competition...
Last year's Brown match was easy, and there is no reason to believe that it will be any different this time. If the Bruins, led by epeeman Amidon, give the weak Crimson sabre team too much trouble, Peroy may shift Johnson or another foil man to the sabre for the next match...
Captain Al Labastie is the number one man in the foil. Like Wright, he has a great deal of natural ability, although he never had a sword in his hand before his Freshman year. His style is characterized by uncommon speed and aggressiveness and by a fast, far-reaching lunge. His vigorous parries make him well-nigh invulnerable against the average opposition, and his attacks are always well-planned. It was something of a surprise when Al did not win the individual foil championship in the gruelling two-day Intercollegiate last year. Close behind him in the foil is Crannie...
...doubtful if they will be a match for the calculated, better-timed motions of the Peroymen. In the meantime coaching will be all-important, and Rene is the man to see to that. Schooled in Olympic competition, and three times a member of the U. S. national foil team, he not only tells his fencers how to do it, but with phenomenal speed and accuracy he shows them how it's done himself...
...their opening meet Saturday the '43 swordsmen overcame Exeter, 5 to 4, fencing only in the foil division...