Word: foilsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only medal that the University team did not win was awarded to Bloomer of Columbia, who won the individual foils championship. Bloomer won nine bouts in all and lost the tenth to E. L. Lane '24, 5-2. He was defeated twice by University foilsmen in the team matces but piled up a large succession of points in the individual tournament. His victory left E. H. Lane '24, E. L. Lane '24 and Grandfield of the Navy in a tie for second place. In the fence-off, Captain E. H. Lane easily won the second-place honors...
...Lane brother and Fleer will be given a hard struggle to keep the titular honors they won last year. Yale and the Army, the other two qualifying teams in the northern half, and Columbia from the southern half, have been defeated by the University foilsmen. Pennsylvania and the Navy are the other two qualifying teams and either one may prove to be a dark horse...
...last dual meet of the season, the University fencing team clinched the championship of the northern half of the Intercollegiate Fencing League by defeating the Yale foilsmen 5-4 in Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday. This victory qualifies the team for the intercollegiate team tournament to begin on April 3, and two of the men for the individual tournament. Captain E. H. Lane '24, with twenty-seven victories, and his brother, E. L. Lane with twenty-five victories and two defeats to his credit, will try to better their, performance last year when Davenport of Yale nosed them...
...only advantage the University team can be said to have, lies in the psychological effect of fighting on its own ground. The Crimson fencers have also had more actual match practice than the Yale foilsmen, having played eight matches to their opponents' three...
...result of the match, the Crimson fencing team has not only obtained eight consecutive victories, but can also boast of a better record than any other team which has represented the University this year. The Crimson foilsmen have thus far beaten Bowdoin, New York University, Columbus, Dartmouth, Norwich, West Point, J. Sanford Saltus Club, and M. I. T. Next Saturday they meet Yale at Hemenway in the last and most important match of the season...