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...Round Robin...
This year, however, the rules committee- which includes coaches from Notre Dame, Ohio State, Air Force, Cornell, and Navy- decided to make the final two days a round robin tournament instead of eliminations...
While round robin competition is not in itself bad. It demands that a fencer prepare differently. He cannot coast on the second day, and then come on with a tremendous effort on the last day. He has to be up for every bout and cannot let up against lesser competition...
...prepared for a Saturday final, not a round robin," he said yesterday afternoon. "Consequently, when I lost two early bouts. I had to fence from behind to catch up to the top fencers. I like fencing as a favorite, not as an underdog...
Keller, who had done miserably in the Easterns. changed drastically in the NCAA's. winning seven out of nine bouts on the first day, and 17 out of 23 in the round robin competition. Only Walter Krause of N.Y.U. won more bouts...