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Overall, powerhouse NYU dominated the IFAs once again, running up 79 total points to win its fifth IFA three-weapon title in the last seven years. The Violets finished with a four-point edge over runner-up Columbia, and a comfortable bulge over third-place Princeton's 61-point total. Harvard finished with 50 points...
...individual competition, MIT's Johan Ackerman followed up the Engineers' team foil title by winning the individual crown. Ackerman, a member of the Swedish Olympic team, was never in serious trouble in Saturday's finals. In epee, NYU's Albert Peters upset his more highly-touted teammates Risto Hurme and Hans Weiselgrin to win the individual title, and still another NYU teammate, Peter Westbrook, bested Columbia's Tom Losonczy in a fence-off for the sabre title...
...team standings, Harvard ended the first day of competition in seventh place with 37 total points. Defending champion NYU, spurred by a phenomenal performance in epee, outdistanced the 13-team field with a 52-point total. NYU won 31 out of 36 bouts in epee and sent all three of the Violet epee men into the finals...
...team or the other would be in the top three," Marion said after the completion of the opening day's competition. "But in epee all Harvard's fencers choked up in the first three rounds where we lost eight out of nine bouts. We would have finished second behind NYU, if we hadn't had that letdown in the first three rounds...