Word: foilsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When questioned as, to the meet, Coach J. L. Danguy of the University Fencing Team explained that Shearn started his career as a foilsman in the Hemenway Gymnasium when a Freshman. He was a member of two winning University Teams and finally dropped the foil for the epee. His exceptionally skillful work in the recent New York meet makes it appear likely that he will become one of the several championship fencers produced by the University...
...England Fencing Championship in the B. A. A. Saturday, C. J. Shearn '23 won the duelling swords title, while Burke Boyce 1G. placed second in the foils contest, which was won by Lieutenant Calnan, a former Navy foilsman who is now a student at M. I. T. Boyce and Calnan, and possibly shearn, will go to New York this week, where they will compete on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in the national championship tournament which will be held in the Hotel Astor...
...University's comparatively easy victory was a surprise as Dartmouth was supposed to have the most powerful fencing team that the University was scheduled to meet this season. Dartmouth's star foilsman, Hertzberg, has never been defeated by any University fencer in the four years that he has been fencing for Dartmouth and last year he placed third in the fencing intercollegiates. When Captain E. H. Lane '24 defeated Hertzberg seven touches to four, and when E. L. Lane '24 repeated the victory by touching Hertzberg seven times to his six in the most exciting match of the contest...
...University fencing team will meet the powerful Dartmouth aggregation in the Fencing Room of Hemenway gymnasium at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The Dartmouth team has remained intact for two seasons and their star foilsman, Hertzberg, who has been a regular for four years, has never been defeated in that line by a member of the University...
...Lane '24, the University captain, showed the best form of the afternoon, allowing his three opponents to touch him only four times. Captain Quinby of Bowdoin was the outstanding foilsman for the visitors...