Ed Lucia
Professor Ed Lucia (Fencing Coach)
CCNY Fencing Coach and 1960 Olympic Team Coach.
Ed Lucia was my Varsity fencing coach from 1970-1973.
He had a tremendous impact on my life not just in the sport of Fencing but in succeeding in the game of life...
I and my teammates honor him and offer this tribute to a great coach, a mentor, and a great humanitarian.
-June 2007
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Edward Lucia

An article published in the CCNY Alumnus (Winter 2009) edition
Copyright by CCNY ALUMNUS Winter 2009 Issue. (Page 8)
An article written by Jack Lee and fellow teammates - paying tribute to our coach.
A poem written by Lucia in High School - Engravings in Steel (1933)
Foaming were the cups
Filled with bubb'ling wine
Jest were bandied forth
Toasts proposed and quaffed;
Through the noisy mirth
Rose an angry shout;
O'er the laces white
Trickles streams of red;
Oaths resounded clear
Utter silence now;
"You I challenge Sir!"
"And I accept your glove!"
"Gentlemen give pause --"
"Insults must be purged!"
"Lying tongues must cease!"
Now the space is cleared,
Doublets thrown aside;
Blade caresses blade,
Dust flied from the boards;
Sparkling are the swords,
Sparkling more the eyes;
"Use thy secret thrust!"
Shouts an eager voice.
Round the circle clear
Wary duelists tread;
Husbanding their strength
Seeking careless guards;
Swiftly speeds the lunge
Cobra's rival - ah! -
Slowly drops a sword
Foible carmine stained;
Slower sinks a form
On the tavern floor;
Sinister the hue
Seeping through the lace;
Ghastlier the hue spreading on the face
Tortured is the scream
Of the sufferer's cry;
Anguished more the face
Of the vanquisher.
Forming are the cups
Filled with bubb'ling wine;
Yet the jests are stilled
And no toasts are raised.
Some related links...
- Time Magazine article
Ed Lucia (Collegiate Coach of the year-1964) - Encyclopedia of the Sword
Info on Lucia. - USFA Hall of Fame - 1974
Edward Lucia - Hall of fame. - Welcome To The Museum of American Fencing
Lucia featured in Museum of American Fencing.
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