Women's Intercollegiate Fencing Championships
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Women's Intercollegiate Fencing Championships
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May 1940
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WOMEN'S INTERCOLLEGIATE FENCING CHAMPIONSHIPS
A determined Hunter College team, captained by Miss Eileen Meyer and depending highly upon its undefeated star, Miss Maria Cerra, won the 12th annual Women's Fencing Association championship with a clean sweep of its seven matches at Calkins Gymnasium of Hofstra College on April 20th. After a full day of fencing among the eight colleges of the Association, the Hunter College team met the strong and favored defending championship team from Hofstra College in the last match of the championship. Both teams had a clean record of six matches won. The Hunter College team used the Misses Maria Cerra, Edith Zinn, Ethel Fried, and Capt. Meyer to outfight and outsmart the defending champions, the Misses Helena Mroczkowska, Dorothy Wahl, and Ruth Maxwell in an upset victory, 5-4, to win the Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Trophy.
Miss Maria Cerra of Hunter College regained her individual title of two years ago in impressive style by defeating the defending champion, Miss Helena Mroczkowska, 4-2 in the last match during which she completed an unbroken string of 23 victories for the day. Miss Mroczkowska took second place with 21 victories, and Miss Josephine Mancinelli of New York University was third with 19 victories.
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS
Team | Won | Lost | Bouts Won
Hunter College | 7 | 0 | 42
Hofstra College | 6 | 1 | 46
New York University | 4 | 3 | 33
Brooklyn College | 4 | 3 | 33
Cornell University | 3 | 4 | 26
New Jersey State Teachers College | 3 | 4 | 26
College of William & Mary | 1 | 6 | 24
Wagner College | 0 | 7 | 16
INDIVIDUAL STANDINGS (First Twelve Places)
Individual | Won | Lost
Miss Maria Cerra (Hunter College) | 23 | 0
Miss Helena Mroczkowska (Hofstra College) | 21 | 2
Miss Josephine Mancinelli (New York University) | 19 | 4
Miss Dorothy Wahl (Hofstra College) | 16 | 7
Miss Kathleen Cerra (Brooklyn College) | 15 | 8
Miss Doris Locke (College of William & Mary) | 13 | 10
Miss Ruth Maxwell (Hofstra College) | 12 | 11
Miss Charlotte Anker (Brooklyn College) | 12 | 11
Miss Ruth Howell (Cornell University) | 11 | 12
Miss Florence Mode (College of William & Mary) | 11 | 12
Miss Ethel Iskowitz (New York University) | 11 | 12
Miss Ethel Fried (Hunter College) | 11 | 12
