[2] He was awarded the saber team gold medal at the 1933 International Fencing Championship in Budapest.

[4] He was the coach of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Gold Medal Hungarian Saber Team Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics and defected with the team to the United States after Soviet suppression of Hungarian Uprising in 1956.

[5] The 1959 Yearbook continued: "Cal's Fencing Team, coached by famed Hungarian Master George Piller, enjoyed a successful 1958-59 The Bears beat Stanford, San Jose State, SF State, University of Arizona, and the Air Force Academy to emerge as champions of the Western Intercollegiate Fencing Conference.

"[6] Piller also became the fencing master at the Pannonia Athletic Club, whose fencers also won many championships at the amateur level.

Some of his notable students included Daniel Magay, Maestro Charles Selberg and John McDougall.