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With sole possession of the title on the line, Harvard's strong foil and epee men came within an eyelash of compensating for the debacle in sabre. The foil and epee squads grabbed five out of six wins each in the last two rounds, but it just wasn't enough to push Harvard past the Elis...
...competence rarely threatens the Pudding's stage. David Lewis, as Hera, and Michael Gury, as the Oracle of Housephli and Bulah the maid, are both sure of themselves and appear to have some idea of how to act under utterly farcical conditions. Mark Miller, as Zeus, is mostly a foil for Lewis, and his Nixon imitations were, to say the least, strange in a Pudding Show. Relevance in drag, and in black tie, is always a little suspect, if you know what I mean...
Powers said he expects women's collegiate fencing teams to expand their fields of competition next year by adding matches with the sabre and the epee to the traditional bouts with the foil. Male fencing teams compete with all three...
...Harvard, led by Gordon Rutledge in sabre and White in epee. Rutledge and White each swept three straight bouts, and both seem to have a good shot at earning All-Ivy honors. Close behind with 2-1 bouting records, were Steve Hobbs (sabre), Howie Weiss and Phillipe Bennett (foil), and Eric Read and Sam Anderson (epee...
Crimson coach Edo Marion, for whom this season is the first to bring a championship in his 22 years of coaching at Harvard, was not surprised by the outcome of the match. "I rather expected it," Marion said afterwards. "I figured out that we are better in foil and epee than any other team in the Ivies and while we started out very weak in sabre, we have improved to where we now have a solid squad...