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...Poppa Grasson's Bulldogs will be particularly strong in sabre, and are likely to get a 5 to 4 win there. The Crimson's Tom Wright recently won the New England Open sabre title, while follman Ben Johnson captured the novice crown in the same weapon, but since Wright is still ineligible and Johnson will be used only in fell, that won't help much...
Navy is the big menace in the Pentagonals and Intercollegiates this year, while Yale will be the most serious obstacle to success in the dual meets. If Eli Coach Grasson teaches his swordsmen the usual lunging, slashing, pellmell tactics, it is doubtful if they will be a match for the calculated, better-timed motions of the Peroymen. In the meantime coaching will be all-important, and Rene is the man to see to that. Schooled in Olympic competition, and three times a member of the U. S. national foil team, he not only tells his fencers...
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...