Word: ifa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK--The Harvard fencing team, still smarting from an embarrassing last-place finish in the Ivy League, arrived here yesterday hoping to redeem itself somewhat with a respectable showing in the IFA Eastern fencing Championships which open today...
...hope to challenge for the Eastern title, Harvard, with potential strength in foil and sabre, could finish in the top five. However, since Edo Marion's squad has a perplexing tendency to defy probability, there is really no way to accurately predict where the Crimson will stand when the IFA's conclude Saturday...
...Harvard sabre men, who bulwarked the Crimson fencing team throughout the regular season, amassed 21 wins Saturday to grab fifth place in last weekend's IFA Eastern fencing championships in Annapolis...
Harvard's performance in the rest of the IFA competition was dismal, as the foll and epee teams managed to win but 23 bouts between them, Crimson captain Geza Tatrallyay, who had been highly seeded in the IFA's, was narrowly edged out of the finals by one bout. Tatrallyay, who picked up seven wins in Friday's epee competition, lost crucial bouts to Columbia and Army that knocked him out of the finals...
...team competition, despite 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...