Word: swordsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bouts will be held separately in foils, sabre, and epee to determine the University champion in each division. The four best swordsmen in foils and epee will be selected today, while the sabre competition will take place tomorrow. Then on Friday these four preliminary winners will fence in their classes to eliminate all but one in each group...
...Peroy, fencing coach, said yesterday that he expected a large number of graduate students to register for the tournament before the closing of the lists at 1 o'clock today. Thus far the large percentage of the entrants have been members of the University fencing team and the better swordsmen of the first-year team. The fencers from the graduate schools always prove to be the "dark horses" of the tournament and often topple the swordsmen of the University team...
Predictions as to the probable outcome of the tournament cannot be made because of the unknown strength of the fencers outside the College, who may have been stars on their college teams. However, in consideration of the strength shown by the University swordsmen in the northern division of the intercollegiates last Saturday, it seems likely that they will make a clean sweep of the championships...
Meeting their last opponents for this year, three Harvard fencing teams will invade New Haven today, when the University and Freshman swordsmen clash with Yale, and the University second fencers enter the Connecticut division of the Junior Championships of the Amateur Feneers League of America. The University meet will be at 7.30 tonight, while the first year men will cross swords at 3.30 this afternoon...
...Harvard first year men will face an undefeated Yale freshman fencing team. The Harvard team has a successful season behind it, having been defeated only by Brunswick High School 13 to 4. However, the Yale, freshmen defeated this team 9 to 8. The Yale swordsmen also won from Choate and Roxbury by a slightly greater margin than did the Harvard fencers...