N.Y.A.C. Annual Intercollegiate Foils Tournament

Title: N.Y.A.C. Annual Intercollegiate Foils Tournament
Type: Magazine article
Is Part Of: The Riposte, Vol. 5, No. 01; The Riposte
Date: January 1940
volume: 5
issue: 1
page start: 3
page end: 3
Temporal Coverage: See all items with this value 1940s
Language: English
content: en N.Y.A.C. ANNUAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FOILS TOURNAMENT

Silvio Giolito, N.Y.U. Senior, established a record in the more than thirty-year history of this annual tournament by winning it for the third year in a row. Giolito swept eight bouts straight in the final round after more than six hours of competition. Other winners from among the 33 collegians who competed on December 20th at the N.Y.A.C. were Murray Kornfeld of St. John’s University, who took second, and Ezra Cassel of N.Y.U., who was third.