{"id":460,"date":"2025-06-24T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/armitage-norman-c\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:35:00","slug":"armitage-norman-c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/armitage-norman-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Armitage, Norman C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>17 US saber titles<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 303px;\" title=\"norman_armitage2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/norman_armitage2.jpg\" alt=\"norman_armitage2.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"303\" \/>(1907-1972) &#8211; AFLA National Sabre Champion [1930, \u201934, \u201935, \u201936, \u201938, \u201939, \u201940, \u201941, \u201942, \u201945); National Outdoor Sabre Champion (1929, \u201930, \u201932, \u201933, \u201935, \u201939, \u201940). Member, US Olympic team (1928, \u201932, \u201936, \u201948, \u201952, \u201956). Finalist in Olympic sabre individual (1932) &#8211; finished ninth. Member, Olympic bronze medal-winning sabre team (1948). Carried the US. Flag in the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics (1952,\u201956). IFA sabre champion for Columbia (1928).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" title=\"Norman C. Armitage\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/NormanArmitage4.jpg\" alt=\"Norman C. Armitage\" width=\"235\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Norman Armitage (Fencing.\u00a0 Born, Albany, NY, Jan. 1, 1907; died, New York, NY, Mar. 14, 1972.)\u00a0 One of the greatest sabremen ever produced in America, Dr. Norman Cudworth Cohn Armitage was the U.S. champion in his weapon 10 times indoors and 7 times outdoors for a total of 17 titles in 16 years.\u00a0 His career was so distinguished that Armitage was twice chosen as the standardbearer for U.S. squads at the Olympic Games, carrying the flag in the opening ceremonies in both Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne (1956). Armitage began fencing as an undergraduate at Columbia and made the U.S. squad for the 1928 Olympiad at Amsterdam.\u00a0 He was to appear in every Summer Olympics held in the next 28 years (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956).\u00a0 After his graduation in 1927, Armitage did graduate work at Columbia to earn degrees in science and chemical engineering.\u00a0 He won his first national championship in sabre in 1930.\u00a0 Armitage is the only fencing Olympian to compete for the US under 2 different names.\u00a0 He was born Norman Cudworth Cohn and later changed his name to Armitage.\u00a0 He was the indoor national individual champion in 1934, 1935, and 1936 while earning a law degree at New York University, which was granted in 1937.\u00a0 Two years later, he won his fifth indoor national sabre title.\u00a0 Armitage was a member of the U.S. national three-weapon championship teams for the Fencers Club of New York four times (1929, 1932, 1933, and 1935), the team sabre champions in 1934 and the team epee champions in 1939.\u00a0 In 1940, he began a run of four straight indoor individual national titles in sabre and, after losing the final in 1944, won his 10th and final indoor individual championship in 1945.\u00a0 In 1948 at the London Olympics, Armitage achieved the elusive Olympic medal as the US Men\u2019s Saber team won the Olympic Bronze.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \t<a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=182&amp;Itemid=51\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-457\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"norman_armitage2b.jpg\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/norman_armitage2b.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px; width: 110px; height: 125px;\" title=\"norman_armitage2b.jpg\" width=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \t17 US saber titles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457,"parent":0,"menu_order":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[308,234,309,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-460","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-mens-saber","7":"tag-armitage","8":"tag-mens-saber","9":"tag-norman-c-armitage","10":"tag-saber-fencing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}