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...other Harvard fencer in the finals, foil man Phillipe Bennett, improved on his first-day record in the finals, but still came out with an ignominious 5-18 bouting record...
...foil Brooke Makler is one bout up on last year's NCAA champ Ty Simmons (U. Detroit). Makler has yet to lose, and Simmons has only dropped one contest. They will also meet today...
...Bennett, it was a big lesson. Entering the foil finals seeded 15th (and thereby facing the top 12 foil seeds), he plummeted from an impressive 7-3 first-day performance to lose 10 out of 12 bouts in yesterday's action. Bennett had virtually nothing going for him, beating only such non-luminaries as Paul Nagorney of Case Western Reserve College in Cleveland and Bill Luce of Michigan State...
...Phillipe was a little tired today," White said, who, because of his elimination in the epee preliminaries, had plenty of time to observe the foil competition. "And his tiredness heightened his worst tendencies, which are to remain passive, to cut in, and to do big movements. He was getting hit pretty badly...
...Crimson, winning seven out of ten bouts in his pool and coming back from consecutive losses in his first two bouts in win four in a row and seven out of his last eight. One of Bennett's losses came at the hands of last year's NCAA foil champion Bob Simmons, from the University of Detroit. Simmons, who went undefeated in the first day's action, topped Bennett...