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...Crimson epee and sabre squads paced the Harvard rout, running up 7-2 and 6-3 bouting records, respectively. The foil team was equally strong in the first two rounds, winning five out of six bouts, but collapsed in the last stanza. With the team victory assured, the Crimson foil men dropped three straight in round three...
After losing the first two sabre bouts, the team rallied behind strong foil victories by seniors Howie Weiss and Donald Valentine to take a 5-4 first round lead. Weiss was in superb form, beating two of his three opponents...
...sabre and the foil teams rose to the occasion. Junior sabre specialist Gordon Rutledge, 2-1 for the afternoon, beat his opponent and junior Steve Hobbs pulled out a close 5-4 victory in the last sabre contest...
Weiss picked up his second foil win, and in a crucial bout--held up for 15 minutes because of faulty equipment--sophomore Philippe Bennett barely escaped with a 5-4 win to tie the score...
...foil John Major fell behind early in his bout to Dartmouth's Phil Hertz, but then won four straight points to win, 5-3. The bouts in the second round were much closer, many of them went to "la bel"--a 4-4 tie--but the J.V.'s prevailed...