Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships
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Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships
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April 1940
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INTERCOLLEGIATE FENCING ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 47th Annual Intercollegiate Fencing Championships will be held on March 29th and 30th at the New York University School of Education Building. The Bout Committee in charge of this large and historic collegiate contest contains the following members: Jose R. de Capriles (New York University), Chairman, Irving E. Cantor (Cornell), Anthony Hyde (Columbia), Samuel J. Cole (M.I.T.), and Lt. Gustave M. Heiss (Army).
The twelve member colleges are: Army, C.C.N.Y., Columbia, Cornell, Hamilton, Harvard, M.I.T., Navy, N.Y.U., Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. It is reported that all members will enter full 9-man teams: three men each in foil, épée, and sabre. There will be 36 men competing in each of the weapons or 108 total fencers in the championships.
The Bout Committee is conducting this year's championships under a new system. Each team must rate its three men as A, B, and C. The 36 men in each weapon are to be distributed, 6 to a strip among 6 strips in the first round, in such a way that no two men from the same college will appear on the same strip and each strip will carry two A’s, two B’s, and two C’s. The first round will accomplish a 50% elimination. This will leave 9 men for a round-robin Finals. This will be duplicated in all three weapons.
The round-robin Finals in each weapon will decide the first three individual place winners in that weapon. The team championships will be decided by totaling the number of bouts won by each team’s three members. The Three Weapon Team Championship will be decided by the grand total of bouts won by the 9 men from each college.
Navy will be the defending champions in the Three Weapon Team, the Foil Team, and the Épée Team contests. Columbia will defend its Sabre Team championship. Graduation has taken its toll of last year’s individual champions. The sabre will have the best return representation with Abraham Campo of Navy (Class A champion), Gordon Wallis of Columbia (Class B champion), and Davison Dalziel of Army (Class C champion). Another strong sabre competitor to return is Alan Rorick of Army (Class A runner-up). The only 1939 foil champion to return is Daniel Appleton of Navy (Class B champion). The épée finalists of last year were equally decimated with only Philip Glennon of Navy (Class C champion) returning.
