Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good news came when John Gay returned to Harvard to finish off his senior year. Gay was a hard-hitting, razzle-dazzle saber man who slashed his way up to the Number One spot on last year's team, was elected captain, and suddenly lit out from the College before getting a degree...
...quick, fast game that always keeps them on their tees. They also can get some good laughs out of the movies. For fencing isn't the brassy, horeic sport of technicolor films, and not even Peroy--an Olympic champ--would try to hold off the French Army with one saber and some balsa-weed chairs...
...terms. Last year, Peroy built a top-flight squad that lost only to Cornell and Yale--the latter game by a heavily-disputed one point. Last year also produced a team that pulled as many Three-Musketeer antics as a fencing team can. John Gay used to slash his saber as if he were swatting mosquitoes in a Cuban jungle. Red McNeil had his own little trick. He'd lunge out with a saber and then roll onto his back to escape the counterpunch. It was unconventional and it looked good, even if it was kid stuff...
...McNeil have graduated, and this year's Douglas Fairbanks is a sophomore named Fels Carter. Carter is inmber three man in the saber department right now, behind Tom Masterson and Bob Westhrin, who play a little more soberly. The saber is always the best weapon for razzle-dazzle stuff, since duellers can use the side of the sword to score touches. In the epee and foil, only the point counts...
Westhrin and Ray Pierce, who also rates high on the saber ladder, are sophomores. In the other weapons, '51 doesn't do so well and the old-timers take over. Captain John Ager is top man in epee, a three-sided sword with a cup-shaped hilt, Giles Constable and Masterson fill up the top three, and may be the group to face Bowdoin in the first game this February...