Varsity Fencing Team Enters Intercollegiate Tourney in New York

Edo Marion's varsity fencing team will meet it other colleges this afternoon and tomorrow in New York City in the 57th Annual Intercollegiate Fencing competition.

Participating in the meet, in addition to the Crimson are Army, Navy, Yale Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Rutgers, Pennsylvania, NYU, CCNY, and Brooklyn College.

Columbia and Navy are the favored teams in the match. Navy won last year, but has lost a match to Columbia earlier this year. Yale is especially strong in the sabre division, which it won in the pentagonal meet three weeks ago.

In the Crimson lineup are Paul Forand, Stove Schneider, and Cliff Thompson at foils; John Craig, Dave Kenney, and John Livingston will fence in the sabre bouts and Phil Erard, Bill Pierskalla, and captain Les Scherer will appear in the epee event.

The high team in each of three divisions will each receive a trophy.