Coach Edo Marion's fencing team will go into the 57th annual collegiate championships at New York University this Saturday with a three won and three lost record. It best Boston University 10-17, M.I.T. 13-14, and Trinity 13-14, and lost to Columbia 8-19, Army 9-18, and Yale 11-16.

The Crimson's first match will be with N.Y.U. at 1:15 p.m. The ten other teams competing in the tournament are; Army, Penn, Brooklyn, Princeton, C.C.N.Y., Rugers, Yale, Cornell, and Navy and Columbia--the heavy favorites.

Marion thinks the team will be handicapped by inexperience. "My boys," he said, "have excellent technique, but they need more experience and self confidence." Prior to this year only three of the team's nine members have had any fencing experience, and most of them are sophomores.

The open team, which beat Yale 7-2, and Army 6-3, has the best record. It boasts the only two seniors on the squad, Captain Los Scherer and Phillip Erard. William Plerskalla, a sophomores, is the third members of the trie.

The team was even more handicapped by last year's confusion in changing coaches, which resulted in a difficult adjustment. Marion recognized this, and proudly says today. "The group is now working together as a perfect unit."

Next year Marion expects the squad to be enlarged by five more men in the foll, three more in sabre, and four in epee. The team will also continue to have Dave Kenney, John Livingston, and John Craig in the sabre, as well as foilmen, Paul Forand, Steve Schneider, and Cliff Thompson.

With a larger group, Marion will have ample substitutes to add depth to the team and provide more competition for the team members. "No squad can become really great without competition from within," Marion said.

In order to provide more experience for his young club, Marion said that he hopes to add new teams to the schedule. "The difficulty with that," he said," is that there are only a limited number of groups in the Boston area, and it may be difficult to make additions to the away schedule."

The freshman team's record does not do justice to its ability. Playing a much older Bradford team, it lost. The same thing happened at Yale and at the University of Connecticut.

Praises Technique

Marion praised the Yardlings' good technique, and said he expects them to developed further within a year, so that he will be able to take more of them into the varsity ranks. "Practically all the members are the first years fencers," he said. Marion thinks that there are few properly trained fencing coaches in America, and for that reason most high school experience does more harm than good.

In looking towards the future, Marion is very optimistic, and thinks that with more experience his team will be able to beat many more teams next year. Captain Scherer equals Marion in his optimism. "Team morale is the highest that it has ever been. I only wish I could be around to see them next season," he says.