Word: three-weapon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This weekend, Harvard hosted the IFAs, and left with mixed results. The women entered the tournament with very high expectations on the strength of a 14-1 record. Their overall sixth-place finish in the three-weapon competition seemed a bit disappointing, especially since Penn, whom they had defeated 19-8 a month earlier, finished fourth...
...team came in eleventh place in the three-weapon, and the two squads combined for an eighth-place six-weapon finish...
...swordsmen effortlessly sliced through their lesser opponents, taking a four-on-four foil meet against Tufts, 10-6, and a three-weapon match with Purchase...
Overall, powerhouse NYU dominated the IFAs once again, running up 79 total points to win its fifth IFA three-weapon title in the last seven years. The Violets finished with a four-point edge over runner-up Columbia, and a comfortable bulge over third-place Princeton's 61-point total. Harvard finished with 50 points...
Harvard never really coalesced into a three-weapon team. The foil men, Philippe Bennett, Howie Weiss and Dave Fichter had been expected to lead the Harvard effort, but it was not until the IFAs that the foil team headed the Crimson effort. Weiss was the most consistent of the trio, but extra pounds tended to slow him down on the strip, and he had a tendency to tire late in the matches, especially late in the season...