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Connoisseurs of fine wines are usually heavy-jowled, bloated men with pot bellies. But Rene Peroy, Harvard's fencing coach, cultivates an expert taste for wine along with a tip-top physical condition. Past sixty-five, he can fence with one student after another, leaving them limp with exhaustion, while he hardly breaks into a sweat...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Rene Peroy | 2/6/1952 | See Source »

With a squad that coach Tom Calhoun '51 calls "not in tip-top shape," the Crimson rugby team opens its season tomorrow against M.I.T. The game will be played at 2 p.m. at Tech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Open Season | 10/20/1951 | See Source »

...snorting tip-top undefeated Princeton basketball team plays the Crimson tomorrow night in the New Jersey whistle-stop. The Tigers, just back from winning the Spartan Classic tournament at Michigan State, are ranked fifteenth in the nation, but Norm Sheppard's men are in their best physical shape of the year and hungry for an upset in their first Eastern League game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Plays Tigers In EIBL Opener Tomorrow in N.J. | 1/5/1951 | See Source »

...Harvard men are tip-top, natural, real he-men who displayed themselves as thoughtful...the best college group I've ever encountered in any of my American tours," the Canon said. "I'm sure I didn't sway all of them, but we parted with mutual respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Converts 600, Says Harvard Men Really 'Tip-Top' | 11/4/1950 | See Source »

...layoff bodes no good for the Bolles' sweepswingers, the entire Seattle entry list is aboard the train and forced to accept the same conditioning hazard. For this reason, prior physical conditioning will play a heavier role than usual; and before entraining, Bolles happily stated that his boys were in tip-top shape...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Crew En Route to Washington Race | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

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