The Sebastiani Years -
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Albert W. Peters also arrived in Houston in 1977 and joined Salle Sebastiani as a Prevot d'Armes.
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Peters, as a college student, had been the Intercollegiate Fencing Association's epee champion at New York University in 1974.The same year his epee squad won the IFA title and went on to capture the overall IFA championship.From 1975-1977 he had competed as a member of the New York Athletic Club's national championship epee team.Peters would become a Salle Sebastiani mainstay throughout its existence.
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In a surprising short period of time, Salle Sebastiani assembled an impressive string of fencers, especially epeeistes, which would include Al Peters, Tim Glass, Robert Hurley and John Warren.
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In individual epee, the Gulf Coast fielded a more formidable roster into the first preliminary pools, consisting of B. Kluber (2 wins-3 losses), B. Markovich (1 win-3 losses), John DuBose (2 wins-3 losses), Robert Hurley (3 wins-1 loss), Tim Glass (3 wins-1 loss) and Al Peters (5 wins-0 losses).
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His clubmate Al Peters managed 2 wins to 3 losses.
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Glass and Peters advanced to the third round of pools.
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Glass won all 6 of his bouts, while Peters won 3 and lost 3.
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Another Salle Sebastiani stalwart, Al Peters took third place, with SWTSU's John Moreau neatly lodged between them in second place.
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Salle Sebastiani's contingent emerged with the top rank in the final listing with Joe Elliot in third place, Al Peters in fourth and Bob Hurley fifth.
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Among the Gulf Coast fencers who competed this year were R. Aiken, Clarence McCraw, Claire Curt, R. Baum, M. Frey, A. Colquhoun, JohnWahren, Roland Reed, Brian Reed, T. Curn, Jim Sheffield, Andy Dunks, Al Peters, Bob Hurley, Tracy Yelton, Tim Glass, and Patrice Caux.
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Peters and Baum advanced to the second preliminary round of pool, in which the top four of each pool would advance.
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Al Peters placed third with 3 wins and 2 losses.
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This time Baum did not make it, but Peters once again placed third in his pool.
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Once again, Peters came in third.Unfortunately, once he reached the quarterfinals pools, he placed fourth and advanced no further.
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Salle Sebastiani's Al Peters and Tim Glass easily advanced, with each finishing a comfortable 1st place.
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Peters placed 1st.
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In the third preliminary pools Hurley was eliminated, but Thoreson, Peters and Glass continued.
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Peters and Glass found themselves in the same pool.
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Peters was eliminated by placing 4th.
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Sebastiani fencers David Adams, Al Peters and Mike Ytterberg finished 4th -6th place, respectively.
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Members of the French team took the top two spots from a field of 26, but Salle Sebastiani's Al Peters grabbed third place.
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Hurley's club mate Al Peters placed 4th.
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In men's foil, Salle Sebastiani's Al Peters captured 13th place from a field of 202.
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Al Peters took 34thplace.
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My first tournament was in Houston, and my first bout in a competition was against Al Peters.
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Roland brought me to a new level in fencing, and my first tournament back I was able to compete, if not beat Tim, Al and others."
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The top three spots in epee were a clean sweep for Salle Sebastiani with Al Peters, Bob Hurley and Slavic Rotkiewics winning 1st -3rd places.
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He was not rated, because the lowest rating was a C. He got his C in Alvin after he graduated in a tournament with Tim Glass, Al Peters, myself and some others.
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On Sunday, Al Peters took 6th.
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Her colleague Al Peters captured first place in men's foil from a field of 47.
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Mens' foil (35 entries) was a clean sweep for Salle Sebastiani, with Al Peters, Robert Hurley and P. Schmidt taking 1st -3rd places.
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"The next summer [1981] I worked with Michelle Sebastiani, and, there was a pool of talent to learn from such as Tim Glass, David Adams, Al Peters, etc."
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His club mate Al Peters placed 23rd."T.
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Sebastiani fencers Al Peters, S. Rotkiewicz, and Gary Thoreson came in 52nd, 53rd and 55th, respectively.
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They were: August Skopik (Texas A&M University); Steve Farid (Houston Fencers' Club); Al Peters (Salle Sebastiani); Ken Hogan (MMA); Lew Smith (Southwest Texas State University); Ben Price (Baton Rouge Fencing Club); Ted Cotton (New Orleans Fencing Club); Denny Clark (Dallas Fencing Club); Jim Reinhart (Rice University); and, Lois Goldthwaite as "representative at large."
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Salle Sebastiani epeeistes Gary Thoreson and Al Peters placed 18th and 23rd, respectively.
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Salle Sebastiani stalwart Al Peters finished in 64th place.
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Club members Rotkiewicz, Al Peters and Tim Glass made it into the direct elimination round of 32, where the first two were defeated (in Al Peters' case in a contest with the South Texas Division's formidable John Moreau).
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Club members Rotkiewicz, Al Peters and Tim Glass made it into the direct elimination round of 32, where the first two were defeated (in Al Peters' case in a contest with the South Texas Division's formidable John Moreau).
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Al Peters climbed back into the competition by winning his repechage bout 10-9.His colleague Rotkiewicz was not so fortunate and lost his second chance 10-7.Peters was taken out in his next bout, losing 10-3 to Risto Hurme, the former Finnish Olympian.
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Tim Glass, John Wahren and Al Peters were first, second and third, in that order.
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The third place slot fell to Al Peters.
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When we were moving to Houston, Herman Hospital or UTHSC arranged a lunch meeting for me with Al Peters.
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It lasted only half a decade but included a formidable array of fencing talent that included Al Peters, Tim Glass, Bob and Tracey Hurley and many others.
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Al Peters
Shown here in later years as fencing coach at Cornell.He came down to Houston with Michel Sebastiani in 1977.He was part of one of the most formidable cadre of epee fencers ever amasses in once place.
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After Sebastiani moved to Princeton, Peters coached fencing at Rice University.
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