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...Rene Peroy's Varsity fencers will face their first real opposition of the season when they cross swords with Seton Hall at 3:30 this afternoon. The small New Jersey college handed the Crimson its only defeat in dual competition last year, and substantially the same team will invade Cambridge today...
Cetrulo, a veteran on the slashing, hard-fighting Seton Hall team, will present a major worry for the Varsity swordsman. The Yardlings will fence the Boston University freshmen in a preliminary meet at 1:30. Rene expecting little opposition there, will use as many substitutes as possible...
...even Coach Rene Peroy, would deny that there is enough material this winter for an outstanding fencing team. Practically all of the first-stringers are back, and the 1939 record is not to be sneezed at. Yet it is perhaps too early to climb out on a limb and predict a full string of wins...
Last year's swordsmen, although they soundly drubbed Yale and annexed the Pentagonal foll championship besides, did not come up to preseason expectations. Rene called the present group "a well-balanced team," and said the chances were good for an undefeated season "unless something happens...
...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 how to do it, but with phenomenal speed and accuracy he shows them how it's done himself...