{"id":366,"date":"2025-06-24T19:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/lilien-elliot\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:31:49","slug":"lilien-elliot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/lilien-elliot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilien, Elliot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elliot Lilien founded the fencing team at Concord-Carlisle High(1965) and coached there for twenty years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left; width: 375px; height: 331px;\" title=\"ELLIOT LILIEN\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/ELLIOTLILIENconcordcarlisle.jpg\" alt=\"ELLIOT LILIEN\" width=\"375\" height=\"331\" \/>Elliot Lilien founded the fencing team at Concord-Carlisle High(1965) and coached there for twenty years.\u00a0 &#8220;We have National Champions at one level or another in Doug Powell, David Donadio, Peter Sils, Jim O&#8217;Neill, Katie Bilodeaux, Peter Cox and M.J. O&#8217;Neill.\u00a0 Peter Brand, the present coach at Harvard, was No. 1 sabreman on our 1969-70 team which broke the long winning streak of Essex Catholic High of New Jersey. Lillien led his team to win streaks of 21 meets, 61 meets, (stopped by Penn) and then started another of 29 meets.\u00a0 At one time 90 fencers came out for the sport at Concord-Carlisle.&#8221;\u00a0 They\u00a0 beat the dominant Essex Catholic<br \/>\nteam three times.\u00a0\u00a0 From 1986-1993 he was head coach at Brown University.<br \/>\nAt Brown they had 70 fencers out for the sport.\u00a0 They won seven New England Championships (4 men, 3 women).\u00a0 At one time or another they beat Ohio State, Rutgers, Air Force, North Carolina, Princeton(W) and Stanford.\u00a0 His top moment was when both of his teams beat Harvard at Cambridge, because of the great disparity in resources and the difference in atmosphere of the two teams. He coached as an assistant at Harvard from 2001-2004.\u00a0 With Peter as the coach the whole program changed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 1993 he founded(with the assistance of others) the Northeast Fencing Conference.\u00a0 He did this because the NCAA rules(limit on meets, not-counting bouts against non-NCAA teams) appeared to threaten college fencing in New England.\u00a0 At that time the league had 12 teams.\u00a0 Now it has 23. He&#8217;s the Commissioner.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been an opponent of the NCAA all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \t<a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=152&#038;Itemid=41\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-364\" alt=\"ELLIOTLILIEN.jpg\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" height=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/ELLIOTLILIEN.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left; width: 99px; height: 115px;\" title=\"ELLIOTLILIEN.jpg\" width=\"99\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \tElliot Lilien founded the fencing team at Concord-Carlisle High(1965) and coached there for twenty years.<\/p>\n<p> \t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364,"parent":0,"menu_order":105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[255,78,104,254],"class_list":{"0":"post-366","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-great-coaches","7":"tag-elliot-lilien","8":"tag-fencing-history","9":"tag-great-coaches","10":"tag-lilien"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}