Word: grasson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starring for the Blue were Captain Maurice Grasson, son of their Coach Robert Grasson, with three strong wins in the foil and Phil Viscidi with another three in the sabre. Two match winners for the New Haven boys were Bill Randall, Calboun, and Barthel in the epee and Streeter in the foil...
...Coach Tatum's implication that fencing is not a sufficiently exciting sport without bloodshed, other college fencing instructors were quick to protest. Snapped Yale's veteran Robert Grasson: "Very foolish." Echoed Harvard's Rene Peroy: "Foolish and unsafe." More impassive was George Santelli, saber coach of the 1936 U. S. Olympic team. Shrugged he: "To approve . . . would be to approve the possibility that someone might be killed, so I do not approve...
Crimson hopes will be placed on William F. Gerber '37 in the Foil; Captain Edward O. Miller '37 in the Epee; and Edward S. Skinner '38, veteran, in the Sabre. Yale's team is built around Maurice Grasson and Philip Viscidi, who both will fight in all three events...
Hard feeling flared up after Saturday's set to in the Indoor Athletic Building when the Crimson swordsmen came from behind to nose out the Eli fencers 14-13 for their first victory over the Blue in four years. Coach Grasson felt that the judging was prejudiced against his team and took no pains to conceal his emotions. Rene Peroy, Crimson mentor, refused to get excited about the meet and simply said "Grasson is always a very poor loser...
...University team, graduates and guests from other colleges will participate, is to be held on Friday, at 8.30 o'clock, in the fencing room of the Indoor Athletic Building. The affair is open to the public. Every year, Rene Peroy, University fencing coach, invites guests, such as Robert Grasson, Yale fencing coach, and the Lane brothers, who were both on the 1924 Harvard team that won the Intercollegiate Foils Championship, as well as the best men on the present squad, to participate in a few bouts with foils, sabre, and epee. Last year a special feature of the program...