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"All-American" Intercollegiate Team
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June 1941
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6
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"All-American" Intercollegiate Team
An "All-American intercollegiate fencing team" which contains competitors from 25 colleges is listed in the recent "Intercollegiate Fencing Bulletin," prepared by Dr. Gerald I. Cetrulo of Seton Hall College, vice-chairman of the American Collegiate Fencing Coaches' Association.
While in some instances it seems to be true that excellence of fencing has been subordinated to geographical considerations, the team is nevertheless a formidable one and those who compiled it should be congratulated for a difficult job well done. The selections, according to the bulletin, "represent the opinions of some of the coaches of the American Collegiate Fencing Coaches' Association, opinions of some of the leading fencing judges, the writings of several newspaper men, and computations based on sectional and A.F.L.A. competitions."
The squad is as follows:
First Team
Foil—1. Steinhardt, St. John's; 2. Moody, Army; 3. McNamara, Northwestern.
Sabre—1. Cetrulo, Seton Hall; 2. Wright, Harvard; 3. Spector, C.C.N.Y.
Epee—1. Tauber, N.Y.U.; 2. Girardot, Seton Hall; 3. Boland, Illinois.
N.B.—Cetrulo and Tauber, although receiving enough votes to make the first Foil team easily, were omitted and placed only in Sabre and Epee to make room for a nine-man team.
Second Team
Foil—1. Liederman, L.I.U.; 2. Riccardi, Seton Hall; 3. Kelly, Cornell.
Sabre—1. Stolces, Navy; 2. Meyer, Dartmouth; 3. Hutton, N.C.
Epee—1. Glassman, W. & M.; 2. Turley, Middlebury; 3. Taylor, Army.
Honorable Mention
Foil—Mascia, Columbia; Malone, Seton Hall; Monzeglio, N.Y.U.; Rudolph, Rutgers; Curtis, Washington; Grover, William and Mary; Malik, Illinois.
Sabre—Goldring, Lafayette; Deladrier, St. John's; Ringi, Panzer; Marzulli, Seton Hall; Molkup, Chicago; Schmidt, Yale; Greenbaum, Pennsylvania.
Epee—Hauser, Case; Hausman, Yale; Hampe, Wisconsin; Brua, Harvard; Kent, Cornell; Smernoff, North Carolina; Keeler, Navy; Metzger, Columbia.
The squad of 40 men is made up as follows: Seton Hall, five; St. John's, Army, Harvard, New York University, Illinois, Cornell, Navy, North Carolina, William and Mary, Columbia, and Yale, two each; and the following with one: Northwestern, C.C.N.Y., Long Island University, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Rutgers, Washington (St. Louis), Lafayette, Panzer, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Case and Wisconsin.
While Seton Hall’s team, unbeaten in over 60 straight dual meets and championship competitions, undoubtedly deserves its places, there seems to have been a tendency to underrate New York University’s strong squad which scored an equally impressive victory in the I.C.F.A. championships. The inferior positions given to Tom Stokes of Navy, I.C.F.A. sabre titleholder, and Marvin Metzger of Columbia, epee runner-up might be disputed, but on the whole the team is doubtless as competent as any that might be picked.
