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1. Cetrulo, Dean
(Saber Fencing/Men\'s Saber)
...rulo, a former world fencing master, and the patriarch of a three-generation family of highly accomplished fencers. Dean was the former principal of Frank Smith School in ...

2. Zold, Dr. Francis
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
...s what it is to be a champion. Before coming to the United States several years ago, he was one of the top fencers in Hungary, known at the time as "the new world" in fencing.   ...

3. Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant
(Foil Fencing/Women\'s Foil)
...e!” cried Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish to Mrs. Charles H. Voorhees as they faced each other yesterday at the Fencers’ Club, 320 East 53rd Street, of which they are both members.   Left ar...

4. Shurtz, Skip
(Epee Fencing/Men\'s Epee)
...r Pia Douglas, the founder of the Grand Canyon State Fencing Foundation.  Skip Shurtz has developed fencers who have won at every level ranging from Divisional to National, to World Cup Team a...

5. National or International by Michel Alaux
(Fencing History/Wise Words)
...the Nationals. However, it will not attest to our growth in quality. One cannot help but witness that our fencers’ technique is not following the upward trend. This is a matter of concern even...

6. Fencing articles from 1902 by Edward Breck
(Fencing History/The AFLA / USFA)
...other stout material, backed with padding. One rule should be made strictly adhered to by all fencers, whether beginners or not: never fence without a mask. To disregard this rule stamps...

7. New York Turn-Verein 100th Anniversary
(Fencing History/The AFLA / USFA)
... competition and was the first winner of the president's medal in 1907. Most beloved of Turn-Verein fencers was John Allaire who, after thirty years of fencing at the Turn-Verein, represented t...

8. Stevens, Arlene
(Epee Fencing/Women\'s Epee)
... There were silly spandex pants to wear under oversized T-shirts. There was the embarrassment of losing to fencers who were better. ''It's scary going into something where you don't know a lot o...

9. Bradford, Vincent
(Foil Fencing/Women\'s Foil)
...s. I was just excited that I could go to Spain! "So there I was among some of the best fencers in the world , and I still didn't really know what I was doing, I was a gut-level fen...

10. Borack, Carl
(Foil Fencing/Men\'s Foil)
...merous World Championships and Junior/Cadet World Championship Teams and has witnessed the progress of U.S fencers over four generations. Borack was elected as Executive Vice President of the USFA (...

  New York Athletic Club Stars: Charles G. Bothner, Rudolph Haubold & Georges Kavanagh New York Athletic Club Stars: Charles G. Bothner, Rudolph Haubold & Georges Kavanagh  

Illinois Athletic Club stars Alfred Ernest Sauer, Arthur G. Fox, James W. Knox in 1909 l to r Chicago Stars - Alfred Ernest Sauer, Arthur G. Fox, James W. Knox (Illinois Athle

13. O'Connor, Tatham, Nadal, Van Zo Post, 1891
(Fencing History/The AFLA / USFA)
...904, 2 OLYMPIC BRONZE medals 1904   Members of this great championship team from the New York Fencers' Club not only won Olympic medals and US titles but also helped to found the US Fen...

14. Alessandroni, Hugh
(Foil Fencing/Men\'s Foil)
...-time US foil champ Joe Levis as his adversary. He was second to Levis 3 times. Representing the New York Fencers Club, he won 7 team national championships, 6 with the foil and 1 with 3-weapon. Thi...

15. O'Connor, Tatham, Nadal, Van Zo Post, 1891
(Saber Fencing/Men\'s Saber)
...904, 2 OLYMPIC BRONZE medals 1904   Members of this great championship team from the New York Fencers' Club not only won Olympic medals and US titles but also helped to found the US Fen...

16. O'Connor, Tatham, Nadal, Van Zo Post, 1891
(Epee Fencing/Men\'s Epee)
...904, 2 OLYMPIC BRONZE medals 1904   Members of this great championship team from the New York Fencers' Club not only won Olympic medals and US titles but also helped to found the US Fenci...

Raw, unedited silent newsreel footage of the Thompson Trophy competition between US and UK fencers in 1926. Lt. Harold Van Buskirk fencing Maj. G. V. Dyer of British team. Closeup of Van Buskirk de

18. Petin, Michael
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
Michael Petin (coach at NY Fencers club) with Brendan Meyers at the '04 Jr.  World championships Michael Petin (coach at NY Fencers club) with Brendan Meyers at the '04 Jr. World championshi

19. Levis, Joe
(Foil Fencing/Men\'s Foil)
...s Fencing Mettle Old Champion Stages Foils Comeback as Olympic Team Nominations Loom by J. P. Allen Fencers have added a new twist to the classic plea for peace when the swords shall be beaten ...

20. Blum, Robert
(Saber Fencing/Men\'s Saber)
...ring the late 1950s and the 1960s, won the United States Saber Team title 10 times for Santelli and later Fencers Club, made the semi-final rounds of a world-circuit saber event at age 46, and offi...

21. Presidents: 26 Kalle Weeks
(Fencing History/The AFLA / USFA)
...revised rating systems and alternative ways to provide additional and enhanced fencing opportunities for fencers at all levels. Kalle was the manager of the 2002 world team in Lisbon and a member o...

22. Krieger, Byron
(Foil Fencing/Men\'s Foil)
... of the state championships in five different years. He was officially rated as one of the nation's top 10 fencers for 15 years during his career. Wednesday's ceremonies at the Warren Chate...

23. Higgins, Eugene
(Epee Fencing/Men\'s Epee)
...ook Club, Tuxedo Club, University Club, Metropolitan Club, NewYork Yacht Club, Jekyll Island Club, NewYork Fencers' Club, the Saint Anthony Society, and the Sons of the American Revolution. ...

United States' foil fencers Dave Littel and Sharon Monplaisir at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. photo by Carl Borack United States' foil fencers Dave Littel and Sharon Mon

25. Pesthy, Paul
(Epee Fencing/Men\'s Epee)
...the friendships and memories endure." His teammates comprise a who's who list of the great American fencers and Pentathletes of the 60's, 70's and 80's and it is a testament to the man that a...

26. Pesthy, Paul
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
...the friendships and memories endure." His teammates comprise a who's who list of the great American fencers and Pentathletes of the 60's, 70's and 80's and it is a testament to the man that a...

27. Wolfe, Jeff
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
...meets.   Jeff Wolfe's W-L record at Brentwood was 388-14.   Eight of his fencers became collegiate All- Americans   Four represented the United State...

28. Fencing: The Sport For All Ages
(Fencing History/Wise Words)
...ing more. I prefer it here best of all because of the good coaching and all the good help from the older fencers." (When you're seventeen, everybody is older. Damrnit. ) If you've always...

29. Littmann, Jane
(Epee Fencing/Women\'s Epee)
... e.. Gold Medal, Women's Epee Team, 1999 Summer Nationals (Charlotte) (Fenced for & Capt of Columbia Fencers' Club; Un-retired for this event, then re-retired.)      ...

30. Uebel, Ferdinand
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
...o started competitive fencing in the state of Minnesota.   He was the President of the Minnesota Fencers league going back to the 1920's, taught fencing at the University of Minnesota and wa...

31. Thanks and Credits 25
(The Museum/Thanks and Credits)
...f Rockville, Maryland has donated a vintage poster for Stride Rite Shoes that was shot at the old New York Fencers' Club on East 53rd Street.  (Lydon House) Brian Carberry, Olympic memorab...

32. Striking Gold - Boston Globe 08/18/2004
(Saber Fencing/Women\'s Saber)
...gunis not only won the first gold in a century, but she took home the first medal of any kind for the US fencers since the 1984 Los Angeles Games. And then to sweeten the pot, the bronze medal...

33. Spotlight is on Alex Orban by Jack Keane
(Fencing History/Wise Words)
...ng in perfect style." Alex Orban looks as if he was bred at the Mendelian Institute of Heredity for Fencers. He stands a shade under five feet, eleven inches and is a svelte 153 pounds. His bo...

34. Orban, Alex
(Saber Fencing/Men\'s Saber)
...ng in perfect style." Alex Orban looks as if he was bred at the Mendelian Institute of Heredity for Fencers. He stands a shade under five feet, eleven inches and is a svelte 153 pounds. His bo...

35. Vince, Marion Lloyd
(Foil Fencing/Women\'s Foil)
...y a single point. She was runner-up for the national championship in 1929 to Mrs. Leon Schoonmaker of the Fencers ' Club in the fence-off for the national title last Spring. Miss Lloyd began fencing...

36. Harutunian, Henry
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
.... It's a sport that provides strength of character for one's entire life. For more than 30 years, Yale fencers with the will have been counting on Harutunian to hone the skill. "A g...

37. Presidents: 18th Michel Mamlouk 1982 - 1984
(Fencing History/The AFLA / USFA)
...ld to help the USA become dominant.  This included increasing the funds allocated to cadet and junior fencers for travel and sending paid coaches with athletes to competitions. The fruit of his e...

38. Elthes, Csaba
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
...(1912-1995) Hungarian born coach, emigrated to the U.S. in 1958. Coach of the N.Y. Athletic Club and N.Y. Fencers Club. His pupils included Peter Westbrook and Alex Orban. Coach, U.S. Olympic team ...

Advertisement at the 2004 Athens' Games, featuring Al Carter and Gago Demirchian. Photo by John Heil Advertisement at the 2004 Athens' Games, featuring Al Carter and Gago Demirchian. Photo by John

40. Vauthier, Louis
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
...squo;s. During that time fencing in America increased greatly in popularity and finesse, and some of our fencers achieved considerable fame here and abroad. Fencing also became very popular among t...

41. Pasche, Marcel
(Epee Fencing/Men\'s Epee)
...oing undefeated in the finals of the 1930 Men's Epee championships. Rene Pinchart, head coach at the Fencers' Club, heard about a job opening at West Point and referred Marcel who became the fen...

42. Heiss, Gustave
(Epee Fencing/Men\'s Epee)
Gustave Heiss is one of the most successful epee fencers in the US history by winning 6 US national championships in men's epee (representing the NY Fencers' Club). He went on to fence in the 1932 O

43. Velarde, Jose
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
...hat he took while coaching at Columbia University in November of 1949 at competition venues of the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA). His adamant refusal to accede to efforts to segregate his f...

44. Lilien, Elliot
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
...treaks of 21 meets, 61 meets, (stopped by Penn) and then started another of 29 meets.  At one time 90 fencers came out for the sport at Concord-Carlisle."  They  beat the dominant ...

45. Posthumus, Sherry
(Fencing History/Great Coaches)
...erous with her home as she was with her spirit, the Hotel Posthumus hosting a steady stream of students, fencers, friends, and practical strangers for a night, a week, a month, or more.  Sh...

46. FENCING; A Farewell to Amateurism
(Fencing History/Wise Words)
... 15, 1989 With two days left in a two-week event dominated by the usual countries, a pair of aging fencers have struck a resounding blow for the new United States policy in the world champio...

47. The Best System of Fencing
(Fencing History/Wise Words)
...oste, a large portion of Joe Valarde’s  Pragmatic school of fencing; and finally, what my own fencers taught me. Add something you call experience, observation, and experiment and you ha...

48. Monkey Sword Fight
(The Museum/Fencing Art)

49. Seven Hall of Famers in the NY Fencers Club
(Saber Fencing/Men\'s Saber)
Seven Hall of Famers in the NY Fencers Club - Rene Pinchart, Warren Dow, Giorgio Santelli, Tibor Nyilas, Lajos Csiszar, Dean Cetrulo, and Norman Armitage Seven Hall of Famers in the NY Fencers Club

50. 1996 Summer Olympics: Nick Bravin
(Foil Fencing/Men\'s Foil)
... Olympics. All the work has paid off. "He's fened some really great bouts lately against top fencers in the world," Tulum noted. "Definitely his attitude brought confidence t...

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