Word: gene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last bout in the ECAC foil finals yesterday, Gene Vastola would shake his opponent's hand only after considerable persuasion from the director. As it turned out, a particularly unsportsmanlike knee to the groin (at least if it was deliberate) had provoked the Crimson skipper's unfriendliness...
...Brothers Hughes were there, cool and glory-bound, and veterans Jim Trainor and Gene Purdy. You wondered if the sophomores could put it all together, and if Randy Millen would indeed "trade two years of potential for one year of production...
...Gene Vastola, has proved himself to be a fighter...
...this year's fencing captain is not merely the athletic stereotype of a fighter. He does not just "give it all he's got," and squeeze every last drop of mindless, animalistic energy from his body. Gene Vastola is far more subtle than that. His sport, "physical chess," as he calls it, requires that he be far more subtle than that...
When Vastola decided to attend Harvard, which is five hours driving time from New York, the capital of American fencing, his coach and other acquaintances warned him he might well be sentencing himself to fencing obscurity. Gene Vastola is a fighter. Gene Vastola has proved them wrong...