The Pentagonal Fencing Meet
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The Pentagonal Fencing Meet
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April 1940
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5
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2
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THE PENTAGONAL FENCING MEET
The fencing teams of Army, Navy, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale assembled at West Point on March 2nd to hold their Fourth Annual Pentagonal, the preliminary warm-up for the Intercollegiate Championships. At the conclusion of the complete round-robin of nine bouts per team in each weapon or a total of 270 bouts, the Army team was awarded the Three-Weapon Trophy with a total of 68 bouts won out of a total of 108. The Naval Academy team was a close second with 67 wins, while Yale was third with 55.
Navy won the Foil Team Trophy with Army second and Harvard third. Army was first in the Épée Team event with Navy second and Harvard third. Army also won the Sabre Team Trophy with Yale second and Navy third.
The individual winners were Daniel Appleton of Navy in foil, Jack Zaugg of Princeton in épée, and Abraham Campo of Navy in sabre. The last bout of the day was probably the most exciting when Abraham Campo won the sabre title on a fence-off for first place with Alan Rorick of Army. These two service men seem invariably to meet in a final fence-off, and this bout supplied plenty of excitement when Rorick led off 4–1, only to see Campo climb touch by touch to take the title at 5–4.
