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...foil competition, only the torso is a fair target and the point is the only weapon allowed. This style is modeled on the idea that two men are trying to kill one another...
...Crimson fields teams in all three types of fencing--saber, foil and epee--but has had particular success with its foil squad...
FENCING--With a 4-2 record, and perhaps the best foil team in the country, Harvard's fencers could go a long way. It's hard to predict the Ivy teams to beat, but Cornell and Columbia (and naturally Princeton) are good bets. The two losses thus far, to St. John's and NYU, could possibly have been avoided, but lack of experience can often negate talent. In other words, an "A" for talent, a "B-" for experience, and a "B+" at the mid-term...
...match was the first Ivy League contest of the season for the Crimson, now 4-2, and they looked impressive, winning 8 out of 9 bouts in both foil and sabre while managing to take 5 bouts in the epee class...
...foil, Captain Phillipe Bennett swept all three bouts as did John Major. Coach Edo Marion, anticipating an easy match, let Eugene Vastola, his third best foil man, go to New York to fence in an amateur competition. Eric Mandelbaum replaced Vastola and lost one bout. In what Coach Marion termed a "Good sign," sophomore David Mcclees fenced two "beautiful" matches, winning...