Word: foils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Epee swordsmen Captain Jim O'Neill and Adam Weintraub dominated, each winning all three of their bouts and contributing to the 8-1 slaughter in the epee event--Harvard's long-standing warhorse. Foil contenders finished with a 5-4 score and sabre contenders, who are a notably young but promising group, won four out of nine bouts...
Crimson fencers broke away early winning two bouts for each one the Judges won until the end of the second round, when it led, 12-6. Brandeis forfeited an early foil match after substituting a fencer without prior notification...
...trailed, 11-10, going into the final epee and foil rounds. But the Crimson came through, winning six unanswered bouts...
...Crimson also received a tremendous boost from Arthur Phillips, the number-three foil, who chalked up victories over all three of his opponents. That included at 5-1 upset of the Bruins' top fencer...
There wasn't much compensation to be had in watching the frustration of 300 MDC officers out to foil drinkers in flourescent orange jackets visible across the river...