Word: saberman
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...score stood tied, 2-2, and I had All-American saberman Larry Cetrulo on the run. He was obviously seared; after a series of attacks he had failed to parry the last one, and I had cut him. A CRIMSON sports-type was about to upset one of the best sabermen in the country...
Rick Tolbert was the only other Harvard saberman to win, dumping his Quaker, 5-3, in the first round. He lost his last two bouts, 5-2. Scott Beckett lost three times, and managed to get only five touches in three bouts...
Yale has never before been a threat, Coach Edo Marion said yesterday, but this year they have a slight edge in experience. Yale's Ivy League record is not impressive at 0-4, but John Mayberg, a left-handed saberman, could create some trouble for the Crimson...
...Harvard fencing team had to scramble to recover from a sloppy beginning to down an inspired Trinity squad, 16-11, yesterday. Saberman Bob Barnard and foil handler Cliff Ruderman contributed sweeps in their matches to pace the Crimson...
...Koff also points out, was ever half so athletic. Crouched like a coiled spring, continually alert to lunge or parry, the fencer can feel tension spreading from his toes to his fingertips. And in the heat of combat, the new gentility sometimes wears thin. Given half a chance, a saberman (who can score points with a thrust or slice anywhere above his opponent's waist) may cut loose and whip his man across the back with a bruising blade. Even a city-bred college boy is seldom happier than on that rare occasion when his button-pointed foil (which...