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Crimson Fencers Face Yale Today In Toss-Up Meet

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The two most evenly-matched teams in Cambridge meet in the Blockhouse fencing room at 4 p.m. today.

Varsity and Yale swordsmen have made similar scores against almost every opponent. They both beat Columbia, 14 to 13; and against Army and Princeton, their scores differed by only one point.

Harvard has the advantage, though. The team is still fighting mad after last year's hotly-argued loss to the Blue. Yale won, 14 to 13, though the varsity had the better team and scored twenty more touches.

Last year, the Crimson was winning 13 to 8 half-way through the saber, and needed just one more point to take the meet, when John Gay lost three matches, for his only defeat of the year.

Amid complaints of bad officiating, Yale took the rest of the matches and won. That's the loss the varsity is out to avenge, "and they can do it," says Coach Rene Peroy, "if they want to."

The Harvard lineups: Foil, Raney, Arp, Vera, Frankman (alternate). Epee: Ager, Yates, Constable. Saber; Gay, Carter, Masterson, Westhrin (alternate).

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