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Columbia placed three men on both the foil and sabre all-star squads. Foil men Gary Pepper, Bob Berger, and Greg Gall, along with sabre fencers Bruce Soriano, George Bartos, and Tom Losonszy were the Lion's all-league selections. Penn's Ernesto Fernandez and Brooke Makler combined with Tatrallyay to make up the epee team. Yale's Steve Blum and Princeton's Rich Lawrence in sabre and foil, respectively, rounded out the all-star selections...
...started out at foil, and after a week, coach Marion, a stately Eastern European gentleman whose accent I found unintelligible for weeks, urged me to take a little vacation from fencing, and then forget the game altogether...
...foil, Harvard could not get untracked until late in Friday's action. After winning but one bout in the first seven rounds, the Crimson foil men, led by Don Valentine--who won five consecutive bouts in the last third of the competition--picked up nine victories in the last six rounds...
...Harvard's disappointing showing, sorted out pretty much as expected. Columbia, on the strength of an awesome sabre performance (33 wins in 36 bouts) edged Navy, 81-78, for the IFA title. Penn and NYU finished third and fourth with 75 and 74 points, respectively. Columbia also took the foil team title with a 28-point total. Penn dominated in epee, taking 32 out of 36 bouts...
...Crimson foil squad, a weak link in Harvard's armor all year, hopes to rebound this weekend from disastrous showings against Penn and Yale. If Dave Fichter. Don Valentine and Sam Anderson can return to the level of performance that they achieved in mid-season foil action. Harvard's chances will receive a big boost...