Word: sabreman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only top-ranked Crimson fencers coach Branmir Zivkovic used against the weak SMU team were the fabulous freshman duo of foilsman David Merner and sabreman David Heyman...
...Crimson's other brightest hopes, sabreman Mike Bierer and epeeman Rob Kaplan, fell one to three bouts shy of qualifying for the finals...
They staggered to get there, but once they had arrived at the NCAA fencing tournament in Wisconsin on Thursday, Crimson sabreman John Chipman and foilsman Gene Vastola blazed through preliminaries and into the final fence-offs in their respective weapons...
...Crimson's poor performance had few redeeming features, as even captain John Chipman, a Canadian junior Olympic sabreman, had a losing record, winning only five of 12 bouts. No Harvard fencer made the nine-man individual finals in his weapon and only one Crimson swordsman, sabreman Richard Gillette, escaped with an even 6-6 record...
Harvard's other fencers found it impossible to keep pace with Penn's talented swordsmen. Sabreman Richard Gillette lost all of his bouts, but in the words of Coach Ben Zivkovic he was "robbed of his first bout" by the director...