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Word: center (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With these exceptions. Team A lined up as it did on Wednesday. R. W. Turner '28 was at center, Daniel Simonds '28 at right guard, and C. A. Pratt '28 at right tackle. G. K. Brown '28 was again at quarterback, with David Guarnaccia '29, A. E. French '29, and J. V. Potter '30 completing the backfield quartet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELL AND DOUGLAS JOIN CROSBY ON SICK LIST | 11/11/1927 | See Source »

Dudley Bell '28, star center who was forced to leave the contest with Pennsylvania in the first quarter, will be in shape in a day of two, it was announced. J. P. Crosby '28, whose leg injury was at first feared serious, may need a little rest, but the Brown game will find him ready for action. A. E. French '29 played quarterback for the greater part of the game, and suffered a severe battering, but Dr. Richards declared that the Junior would feel no ill effects from his ordeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY TEAM IN GOOD CONDITION | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...encounter, won by the Red and Blue, 15 to 6, Morice of Penn sprung a surprise when he took the hall on a pass from center, and held it for Minds, great Penn kicker, to boot a placement goal. This was the first placement goal ever kicked in a game which Harvard played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cridiron Chosts | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

Napoleon gets the credit, according to Lewis, for the solution of the problem. Faced by a similar wedge directed against his center, at the Battle of Austerlitz, the Little Corporal massed reserves behind the point of attack, and swept cavalry in from the sides, to catch the advancing wedge in a vise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cridiron Chosts | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

Lewis turned the cavalry into tackles and ends, and massed his backs in a solid group behind the center. The backs bore the thrust of the head of the wedge, and the tackles and ends swept in to demolish the sides of the Quaker wedge. The play was stopped, Pennsylvania was stopped, and victory lighted on the Crimson banner again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cridiron Chosts | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

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