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Fencing for Southeaster Massachusetts University (SMU) is like running a Harold Stassen Presidential campaign. There's never much chance for success, but the tolerance for embarrassment is remarkably high. Today, SMU comes to Harvard to take on what may be the strongest Crimson team in years SMU's chances do not look particularly bright for this afternoon's contest...
...SMU is a small state college in Dartmouth drawing most of its students from the surrounding Fall River-New Bedford area. SMU does not get experienced fencers. In fact, according to Corsait coach Eugene Williams, "We get zero in terms of experience...
Last year SMU lost, 25-2, to Harvard in a mis-match of monumental proportions. The year before, the Corsairs dropped the Harvard contest...
Crimson coach Edo Marion said yesterday that while SMU boasts a fairly large program, "the team is perennially weak." Harvard captain Terry Valenzuela was less generous in his analysis of SMU's chances. "We could beat them in street clothes," he said. "I don't think that we'll lose a single bout...
Today's match will be the second of the young season for the Corsairs. In a triangular meet with Dartmouth and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, SMU turned back Dartmouth, 14-13, while losing to Worcester Poly, 18-9, Neither Dartmouth for Worcester has much strength as a fencing power...