National Collegiate Championships
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National Collegiate Championships
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June 1941
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National Collegiate Championships
Nineteen colleges—from Dartmouth in New England to the University of Washington on the Pacific Coast—took part in the first National Collegiate fencing championships ever to be held, staged on March 29 at Columbus, Ohio.
While no formal team championship was contested, the Yale University cup for the team ranking highest in the three individual weapon competitions was won by Northwestern University with 28½ points. Illinois was close behind with 27, Washington University (St. Louis) third with 26½, and a tie for fourth between Rutgers and Yale, each with 26.
Seventy-six men participated in the three competitions, which got going at 9 a.m. on five strips and wound up at 11 p.m. E. McNamara of Northwestern took the gold medal in foil, winning cleanly over Warren Malik of Illinois and Morris Rudolph of Rutgers, who finished second and third in that order.
The epee title went to C. A. Boland of Illinois, with T. Houser of Case and Howard Baker of Washington (St. Louis) second and third. In only one weapon—sabre—was a fence-off necessary to determine the champion. William A. Meyer of Dartmouth finally pulled through with a 5–4 victory over Joseph Malkup of Chicago to take the title. Robert Schmidt of Yale finished third.
A dinner attended by the coaches of the competing teams saw plans laid for a national coaches' association. Such a group, it was decided, would serve the function of assisting the less trained coaches to fulfill their duties more competently.
The tournament bout committee, composed of Dr. John R. Huffman, chairman ex-officio; Royall Snow, Harvard, chairman; Dr. Frank Riebel, Ohio State; Scull Breckenridge, Kentucky; and Lucien Morris, Case, expects to recommend that next year’s championship will be held on March 28 at Cleveland, Ohio.
The final three-weapon standing of teams for the Yale Trophy was as follows (it should be remembered that all colleges did not enter their full complement of six men, two in each weapon):
Northwestern, 28½; Illinois, 27; Washington of St. Louis, 26½; Rutgers and Yale, 26; Ohio State, 20; Chicago, 17; Michigan State, 13; Kentucky, 11½; Case, 10½; Wayne and Wisconsin, 10; Dartmouth and Notre Dame, 9; Lawrence, 6; Ohio University, 4; Oberlin, 2; University of Washington (Seattle), 1; Dennison, 0.
