by Doug Nichols | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Funke, Erich |
I’ve been spending a fair bit of time lately perusing the scrapbook of Erich Funke d’Egnuff that was donated to the Archive by Marc LeRoux some time back. It’s mostly comprised of news clippings dating from about 1937 to 1947. With as seldom as...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 23, 2020 | Artifact |
Shoulder patch for UC Santa Cruz. The sports teams at the University of California at Santa Cruz have an unusual mascot that can be used as a stumper question in trivia contests with excellent results in many parts of the country. Ariolimax californicus is a common...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 16, 2020 | Artifact |
A pair of 1950 Pacific Coast Championship medals. These two first place medals were won by Francis “Fran” Carter, who competed for the Halberstadt School of Fencing. In 1950, Fran won first place in both the Junior Women’s Individual and Team...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 13, 2020 | Angell, Tommy, Blog Post, Brownlee, Laurance, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches U - Z, De Jong, Duris, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers F - J, Halberstadt, Hans, Huddleson, Demi, Mori, Torao, Vince, Joseph |
When I struggle with ideas for writing about fencing history for this site, I have a couple of favorite fallback topics. If you’ve been reading for awhile, you can probably guess most of them. Aldo Nadi, Helene Mayer, Hans Halberstadt. All three of those...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 9, 2020 | Artifact |
1935 medal from the Southern California division of the AFLA. An excellent example of hand engraving on the back of this medal. This was purchased from Ebay along with a number of Ralph Faulkner medals. Presumably this was one of his, as well. The pantograph, a...
