schlager7's video: 1980 NCAA Sabre Finalists

1980. English. Vintage ESPN video of the top 24 1980 NCAA Sabre fencers including the finalists listed below. 1. Paul Friedberg - Penn 2. Steve Renshaw -- Clemson 3. Don Lear -- Penn State 4. Paul Cordts -- Johns Hopkins 5. Chris Lyons -- Notre Dame 6. Neil Hick -- Wayne State - 1982 NCAA individual champion László Pongo is the referee (director). He was a world-class fencer and a member of the National Champion Sabre Fencing Team in 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1970. He competed at the U.S. Team World Championship in 1958, in Warsaw, 1961; the Hungaria Cup, Budapest, 1964; the World Championship, Paris 1965; the North Atlantic Sabre Championship, 1966, and in 1968. László was also a United States Fencing Official at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He became an international diplomat in fencing. He traveled to Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and many other countries during his time as an official, communicating the importance of the strategy, and classical principals of fencing. From age 70 to 78 László took up teaching and coaching fencing, before he passed away in 2005 at the age of 80.