by Doug Nichols | Mar 9, 2015 | Blog Post, Tournaments, Tournaments 1981 - 1990 |
For those of you brought up in a digital world with your Googles and YouTubes, I’d guess it’s hard for you to imagine a time when finding information about fencing was near impossible. In these days of live video feeds of world cup competitions and up-to-the-minute...
by Doug Nichols | Mar 5, 2015 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Richards, Ed, Tournaments, Tournaments 1961 - 1970 |
The mastermind behind the ultimately triumphant performance of the US Masters team at the 1970 World Fencing Masters Championships was, without doubt, Raoul Sudre, head coach at Cornell University. A year and a half prior to the event, he began calling prospective...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog Post, Bradford, Vinnie, Burchard, Peter, California, Clark Skillman, Laurel, Ellingson,Joy, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Metkus, Andrea, National Tournament, Tournaments, Tournaments 1981 - 1990 |
The Fencing Center of San Jose, CA, was the brainchild of a group of fencers from Michael D’Asaro’s program at San José State University who enlisted the help of a group of interested adults and parents in the endeavor to create a viable club in the heart of the...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 13, 2015 | Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, California, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Domolky, George, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Magay, Daniel, National Tournament, Orley, Piller, George, Tournaments |
The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco is perched at the top of swanky Nob Hill. One of the premiere hotels in the city, it opened in 1907 after an extensive refurbishing of the damage done by the 1906 earthquake to the about-to-open Beaux-Arts building. Famed...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 18, 2015 | Baker, Jack, Biagini, Gerard, Blog Post, California, Coaches K - O, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers F - J, Fencers K - O, Huddleson, Demi, Marki, Ferenc, Mitchell, Maxine, National Tournament, Need Help, Tournaments, Tournaments 1961 - 1970 |
Harold Hayes of The Pacific Fencing Club on Alameda Island, Oakland, CA has been a generous contributor of cool things for the Archive. Among other things, he transferred possession of two long boxes of material he received from Mary “Demi” Huddleson, past editor of...
by Doug Nichols | Jan 17, 2015 | Blog Post, California, National Tournament, Need Help, Selberg, Charles, Tournaments, Tournaments 1971-1980 |
The 1979 All Cals (as in, All of California) took place at the West Field House at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It was a collegiate competition for a conference that was in the process of dwindling as funding for fencing programs across the state were...
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