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Wednesday, January 26, 1972
University Daily Kansam
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Epee Fencer, Left, Misses Thrust
Kansan Staff Photo by TOM THRONE
KU hosts Kansas Open Turnament
Fencers Practice Hard To Learn Their Sport
Fencing Takes Time
By MATT BEGERT Assistant Sports Editor
The KU fencing team is not the most well-known athletic organization on campus, and fencers don't get scholarships, but they put in a lot of time and money to get a lot of enjoyment out of their sport.
Patrick Christman, captain of the team, placed second in the foil event and fourth in the opee
THE CLASSIC en garde stance is something that takes a little practice to master, for example. To maintain this stance with his feet at a 90-degree angle about shoulder-width apart, weight balanced even on both feet and the knees flexed and not touching the ground. It is harder than it sounds.
KU hosted the Kansas Open
fencing tournament Saturday
and Sunday. It's an annual meet
that features all four events the
Beginning fencers can either take the one-hour course in courses offered by the practice. Intermediate and advanced fencers sport to any would be fencers who soon learn that there is more to fencing than hacking and shooting.
The fencers practice five days a week from 5 to 7 p.m. Practice includes warm-up exercises, a mobility, drill, running, sometimes swimmers, lessons by fencing masters and lots of practice drills.
competition Jean Dechant, a third-year member of the team, took third in the women's foil.
THE FOIL is the most widely used weapon in modern beating and guarding and a thin light blade. The fencer scores with the point of the finger.
The epe is similar in shape to the foil, only the hand guard or bell guard is larger and more durable. The blade is hicker and stiffer.
The third weapon, the sabre, is be a threath through attack and the edge blade the blade can be used to score. The hand guard is D-shaped and the edge blade can be used to score.
Two of the team members who have competed in the NCAA national championships are nationally ranked, and KU had one all-American in the late 1860s. KU's three-male foil team the Kansas and the Kansas division of the Amateur Fencers League of America.
Dual meets with other universities consist of 27 matches or bouts between the nine-man teams. KU has plans to host a Big Eight invitational fighting tournament during the spring semester.
THE KU team competes with feeding clubs and teams that are among the nation's top recruiters. Fencers' League of America as well as with NCAA-sanctioned teams.
KU's area college rival is the
Freshman Eligibility Raises Problems
Athletic department officials a KU are more than a little disturbed by the Big Eight Conference's recent adoption of a new NCAA policy making football for varsity football and basketball.
In a series of interviews last week, Wade Stinson, director of athletics, Charles H. Oldfather, former assistant chairman of the Big Eight faculty representatives, and football coach Don Fambrough all express concern about the lack of freshmen in basketball for eligible football.
The NCAA's freshman rule technically had made freshmen less likely to attend NCAA events. It was up to the Big Ten to approve the legislation for court approval.
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"We expected to take a vote Sunday," Oldfather said. "But we were unsure whether the issue would be settled then."
Stinson indicated surprise that
That's approximately how KU stood when the Big Eight faculty met in Washington, raising body, held a telephone conference Sunday to discuss the issue. The representatives voted to rethink the rules in both football and basketball.
Everyone, on the other hand,
including basketball coach Ted
Owens, was in favor of freshman
 eligibility in basketball.
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a final decision was not put off until conference meetings the first week of March.
Oldfather was hesitant to say what the final vote was or what position KU took. Changing the word school to six schools, he noted, however.
Earlier, when the NCAA considered the rules change at its annual convention during the first half of 2015, he moved that the vote be split into two issues—football and basketball. The Big Eight opted for or the basketball eligibility football change, Oldfather said.
RECruitment pressure from other conferences evidently brought about the change in Big Eight thinking. The Big Ten and Southwest conferences already had adopted freshmen rules.
team from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Most of its faculty are big-name fencing schools, including the Air Force Academy, University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin. University, Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin. Send representatives to the national championships, which are usually held during spring term.
"I would make a difference to a high school student." Towle said. "If you know all of us and all-state, you think you're pretty good and might think you are."
Steve Towle, Shawnee Mission freshman football player, concurred.
"Recruiting is a heavy, competitive business," Oldfather said last week. "This is an imponderable factor—it may make you fearful and you agree they'll fish freshen and you say lily that you won'!."
"BUT NOW, after I've been here a year, I've learned an awful lot," he said. "We were trying to learn how to be smart, wouldn't learn as much and you
“When the other conferences tell a kid they’ll play him as a freshman, it puts us in a bind.” Fambrough agreed. “The parents I’ve talked to are against it, but it depends on the individual person who plays them like he can play or realizes he needs some time to adjust.”
"I've always felt the freshman year should be a period of adjustment in the classroom as well as on the football field," Farnbrough said. "I'd love to be academically as well as athletically from high school to college, so we try to take it slow and easy."
"Speaking as the faculty representative at KU, I'm opposed to any step that would require two-days," Oldfather said.
Concern about the effect of variety participation on the freshmen was the main objection, and it was unable for football, Old father said.
wouldn't be as prepared as a sophomore."
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Cracking heads with veteran upperclassmen while struggling to adjust to classroom pressures would be a traumatic experience,
MAKING freshmen eligible for varsity football, though, won't eliminate the traditional freshman program in the Big Ten, which circumstances under which freshmen will be eligible have yet to be worked out, and KU is likely to take a strong position against starting freshmen with the rest of two weeks before school begins.
The situation came about because of a surprise move by the NCAA convention. As Stinson told his proposal for a special convention, he saw ways of cutting expenses —was moved to the top of the agenda.
Probably because delegates thought the items in the proposal could be considered more
Oldfather said. It might be discouraging, too. Stinson pointed out.
WOMEN COMPETE in AFLA meets. KU has had one of the strongest women's teams in the division for several years.
"In theory, making freshmen eligible for varsity football would save money because you'd need them on the squad." Simpson said.
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Following a disastrous kickoff, the KU basketball team hopefully will be on the bounce for Thursday night's p.m. game in Allen Field
Women Cagers 2-2 Will Host K-State
Points scored in a bout are scored against the fencer's fence for three points or touches and women fence for four. There is a 6-minute time limit for an AFLA limit for bouts in an NCAA meet.
The K-State women go on the road Wednesday night with a 41-35 victory over Wichita State. KU and Fort Hays State on three successive nights.
The target area, or area that a fencer must hit to score, is the ground behind his weapons. Valid target area for the foil is the torso of the body, excluding the head, arms and legs. A successful attack by a fencer is anything above the waist, and the epee fencer may hit his opponent anywhere to make it harder to score.
Then KU hit the road to Wichita Saturday. A tall SWU team was expected to win, but the ball with seven seconds left, hit Miss Norris, who scored
economically without a special convention. Stinson said, the proposal failed. So when the idea of making freshmen eligible for varsity football and basketball looked for a way to save money.
"I're recruiting, you've always tried to get the real quality athlete. Owen said. So if I want them toinate that in you, do you're selective."
ELECTRICAL SCORING systems have been devised for foil and epce bouts, but sabre are sight-judged by four fistls.
Some money probably can be trimmed from the basketball budget. Stinson said if fewer players are recruited. Oldfather said the freshman program should focus on encouraging walk-on participation.
KU will remain at home for games with Oklahoma and Benedictine Saturday and Sunday.
IRONICALLY, simply making freshmen eligible to play will do nothing to cut expenses, in either football or in basketball.
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But it doesn't work that way because college football is so complex; it takes at least a season to develop the skills exceptional players in the skilled categories—split receivers, running backs and kickers—and would be likely to see varity action as freshmen, Fambrough
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would be improved," Owens said last week. "If you have a bad relationship, and of high enough qualification—and we've had at least one of my eight years here—he might not be able to possibly help out the team."
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Freshmen would have ample time before basketball practice begins. Oct. 15 to make an appointment at college academics, Owens said.
If the NCAA takes action to limit the number of athletic activities put in place, it would put athlete尊权 at a need basis, perhaps money can be saved, Stinson said. Both sides want to get the proposed special convention.
"I THINK that as far as basketball is concerned, the chances are that our program
IT COULD work much like Dick Reeman's swimming program. Freshmen have been one of the other sports since fall, 1968 Reamon won his first Big Eight title the spring before and hasn'
Fencing tournaments are entertaining, uniformed spectators, and fencing in the Midwest is far from being the popular sport that it is.
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"The important thing I see about this is that we can look at weaknesses and do selective recruiting," Reason observed. "Right now, we don't have any outstanding weakness in our team."
Each bout is presided over by a director, who starts and stops the action and awards the touches against each of the opponents.
Tournaments usually begin in the morning and continue all day. The top team in which KU won the foil team division title lasted until 10:30
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