Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard fencers advanced as far as the finals. Dan Isaacson, with seven wins in the third foil pool, and Bob Damus, with six victories in the second sabre pool were the only Crimson swordsmen to take more than half their bouts...
Harvard's foil team placed fifth, its epee team ninth, and its sabre team in a tie for eighth...
Columbia captured two of the individual weapon titles. All-American Steve Weinstein won the foil crown while Frank Lowry, who was originally entered in the second pool, upset teammate Mark Berger for the sabre championship. In a fence-off with Richard Holzman of Columbia, Penn's Ron McMahan took the epee title...
N.Y.U.'s Al Davis, Howie Harmatz and Mike Gaylor won an unprecedented 29 of 30 bouts to place first in the team foil competition. Edging Columbia by one point, N.Y.U. also captured the team sabre crown with 23 victories Navy was first in epee, winning 21 bouts...
...Musliner and Rick Kolombatovich will tangle with a swarm of talented swordsmen in foil. Because only foils are used in New York high schools, competition in this weapon is usually stiffer than in sabre or epee. Columbia's Steve Weinstein and Bruno Santonocito and Penn's Steve Permut will tangle for first place...