1934 Gaudin’s Funeral (Bout with Aldo Nadi) (Video)
Foil
Zimmermann, Iris
“I learned discipline from my own life experiences. I didn’t learn it from sport.” “My fencing has benefited from that discipline. It brings me to fencing practice everyday.”
VIDEO: Iris Zimmermann interviewed by Andy Shaw
Jones, Julia
NIWFA co-founder and first champion (1929) for NYU. Coach of the NIWFA championship team at NYU (1933, ’38) and Hunter (1970). NIWFA coach of the year (1970, ’92). Devoted to the development of women’s collegiate fencing; bringing the NIWFA from four teams in 1929 to 79 teams in 1980.
Calnan, George
6 times US Foil Champion
1 time US Epee Champion
1 time US Outdoor Epee Champion
1928 Olympic Bronze medal in Epee
1932 Olympic Bronze medal in Men’s Foil Team
1932 Olympic Bronze medal in Men’s Epee Team
Killed at the age of 33 in crash of dirigible “Akron”
Johnson, Stacey
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* Member of the 1980 Olympic Fencing Team
* 1982 Olympic Sports Festival Individual Champion and Gold Medal Team Champion
* Four-time All American 1976-79
* Two-time National Collegiate Champion 1976 & 1979
* Four-time National Collegiate Team Champion 1976-79
* Held Collegiate individual record for team win/loss (305-1)
* Member of two World University Games Teams, 1977&1979
• Three-time U.S. National Team Champions – 1974, 1976-77/
• Five-times U.S. National
Championships individual finalist 1974, 1977-79, 1982
* Member of three Junior World Teams (1973-75 Buenos Aires, Argentina; Istanbul, Turkey; and Mexico City, Mexico)
Hambarzumian, Heik
Heik Hambarzumian Interviewed by Andy Shaw for the Museum of American Fencing
July, 2012 at the Summer National Championships in Anaheim, California
1931 Amazons of the foil
1931 Amazons of the Foil” American’s Champion swordswomen meet brittan’s best in ‘clash of steel’ for international honours. Features footage of three female American foilists: Ms. Marion Lloyd (later Mrs. Joseph Vince), the current US Women’s Foil Champion; Miss Locke, and Miss Burnside. Also three female British foilists: Miss Peggy Butler, Miss Nelligan, and Miss Pollock-Smith. Video courtesy of schlager7
Jacobsen (D’Asaro), Gay
Gay was the 1974 and 1978 US Foil Champion, a member of two Pan Am teams (1975 and 1979) and two Olympic teams (1976 and 1980). She was also a 1-rated Referee. Known for her beautiful technique, Gay is a member of the US Fencing Hall of Fame.
Schoenfeld, Otto
Otto Schoenfeld was the first American known to have fenced in the Olympics* at the Paris games in 1900. He competed in the Master’s Sabre Event.
McClain, Sean
Sean McClain (center) pictured with the 1995 Pan Am men’s foil team. Sean was 2-time U.S. champion (foil & epee), 4-time Jr. Olympic champion (foil & epee), and Empire United fencing coach in New York City
O’Connor, Denise
A two-time Olympian, (1964, 1976), she fenced in five World Championships (1965, ’66, ’69, ’70, ’75), as well as the Pan American Games of 1975 (Bronze Medal). She was the winner of the 1971 Terre des Hommes in Montreal. For nearly two decades, she was a nationally ranked women’s foilist (1959-1976). She captained the Salle Santelli Women’s Foil Team to five national titles. She was also a 3-time chair of the New Jersey Division, coach of Brooklyn College for over a decade at Brooklyn College before becoming Assistant Director of Athletics.. In 1975 and ’76, she was NIWFA College Coach of the Year.. Her students have become champions and successful coaches in their own right.
VIDEO: Denise O’Connor interviewed by Andy Shaw 2012
1937 Alessandroni vs. Levis
Hugh Alessandroni (inducted into the US Fencing Hall of Fame 2010) against Joe Levis (also in the Hall of Fame) This photo was a gift from Robert Levis, son of Joe Levis.
Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant
(1884 – 1971) – generous patron of fencing, advocate of women’s fencing, member of first championship women’s foil team.
Prokop, Austin
Austin “Gus” Prokop became a member of the 1948 US Olympic fencing team for the London Games
1996 Olympic Fencing Team Opening Ceremony
’96 Olympians, photo taken in the holding area prior to Opening Ceremonies in Atlanta
Photo By Carl Borack
White, Ruth
AFLA Women’s Foil Champion [1969, ’71]; AFLA U-19 Women’s Foil Champion (1968, ’70). The first African-American to win a US fencing championship, she won her first senior national championship in 1969 while still in high school in. NIWFA Champion in (1970, ’71).
1891 – O’Connor, Tatham, Nadal, Van Zo Post
William Scott O’Connor, Charles Tatham, C. C. Nadal, and Albertson Van Zo Post
Cerra Tishman, Maria
AFLA national foil champion (1945). Member, U.S. Olympic team (1948). Finalist, Olympic foil individual (1948) – tied for second place, finished fourth. This is the highest Olympic attainment by a US woman. NIWFA champion for Hunter (1938, ’40). First woman to officiate at a national final (1949); first woman member of the Olympic fencing committee (1965).
Zimmermann, Felicia
4 US titles. The first woman to win both the foil (1998) and epee (1999) at the NCAA championships.
Marsh, Ann
2 US titles. Ann Marsh made a legendary comeback against the German foil team.
VIDEO: Ann Marsh interviewed by Andy Shaw at Summer Nationals 2011
Bothner, Charles
Charles Bothner won thirteen US championships – 11 individual and two team. In 1897, he was champion in Foil, Sabre, and Epee – a record that is unlikely ever to be approached again. He represented the Pastime Athletic Club and the NYAC.
Stewart, Mildred
Mildred Langdon Stewart, who lived in West Hempstead, New York, attended Hunter College and was trained by Georgio Santelli at Salle Santelli. She was a 2-time N.I.W.F.A. Foil champion (1936 & 1937) and made the 1940 U.S. Olympic Fencing team. Due to World War II, the Olympic Games were cancelled.
Mitchell, Maxine
Maxine Mitchell, 4 US Titles, 4th 1952 Helsinki Olympics, after a 4-way tie for 3rd.
Dow, Helena Mroczkowska
(1917-1998) – AFLA national foil champion (1940, ’43, ’47, ’48). Member, U.S. Olympic team (1948). Coach of Fairleigh Dickinson University (Rutherford) (1968-71). NIWFA foil champion for Hofstra (1939).
1909 Illinois Athletic Club stars Alfred Sauer, Arthur G.Fox, James W. Knox
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 Athletic Club)