Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foil and saber events, the Crimson fighters didn't fare so well. Ray Frankman, Bill Raney, and Stan Sheldon bowed 6 to 3 in the foil, with Frankman taking two of his adversaries only to lose to Cornell's Bill Clarvit, the only undefeated fighter of the match...
With a possible three events in which to start none of this year's varsity swordsmen could boast Coach Perey's endorsement as best in his field. "They're all pretty well matched," said Perey, "but so far the saber seems to be the best event...
...Saber practice on the 40-by-6 foot regulation strip is supplemented by slashing at a sword-wielding canvas dummy, while epee and foilmen glean their largest off-strip brushups by lunging at quarter-inch targets taped on the wall...
...addition to the 1947 season's returning lettermen, the fencers boast good coverage in all three events--epee, foil, and saber--with the following men filling the key positions: Neil McNeil, John Ager, Halton Arp, Giles Constable, Stan Sheldon, Joseph Vera, and Ray Frankman. VARSITY SCHEDULE Feb.14 Cornell (away) Feb.18 Brown (away) Feb.21 Army Feb.25 M. I. T Feb.28 Princeton Mar.6 Columbia Mar.13 Yale (away) Mar.19-20 Intercollegiate Moet (at New York...
...were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail jailing over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards...