Word: center
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four men who compose this year's University pivot material measure up to their potential possibilities, or even to their past achievements, Coach Arnold Horween '20 should find little to worry about in the way the center assignment is carried out this season. With two University veterans of proved worth, a consistent first year performer, and a last year's second team star all available the Crimson coaches have an unusual amount of center material to chaw on in building up the 1927 University line...
...particularly brilliant performer. As a Freshman in the University, however, he was unable to play football. At the beginning of the next fall he was retained on the University squad but was not regarded as a very likely first team prospect. For several weeks he substituted in the center berth and then came the 34-0 defeat at the hands of Princeton. A complete shake-up resulted in the Crimson ranks, and Turner who had shown up to great advantages in a relief role was advanced to first team rating. In the subsequent victory over Brown he fully vindicated...
...star pivot of the eleven. Bell is a powerful defense player and an accurate passer. In addition to the two veterans mentioned above the University coaches have A. B. Bigelow '30, a strong and consistent performer on last year's Freshman eleven, and B. H. Dorman '29, first scrub center last November to fall back on Dorman was alternate pivot on his Freshman team two years ago, but last year at the beginning of the season he was started in the class ranks. Here his playing soon attracted the coaches attention, he was promoted to the Seconds...
...shifted to guard before the season was over was one of the mainstays of the strong Crimson forward defense. Like Captain C. A. Pratt '28, Simonds appears to be in better form than ever this fall, and should prove, with Pratt and R. W. Turner '28, veteran center, a source of steady strength to the University team. He is one of that rangy type of lineman which has to a great extent replaced the slow, massive guards and centers of former days and which in a still more open and speedy game, such as the new rules promise before...
...getting across the line of scrimmage which may win him a place among the University's first eleven gridiron representatives. Parkinson was captain of the Groton School team three years ago and then played regularly on his Freshman team after coming to college. Last year he was shifted to center where he was somewhat handicapped by his unfamiliarity with the position. Back at guard again Parkinson appears to have all his old punch in defensive play, and with the experience of two years on the University squad added to his former football knowledge should be a valuable asset to line...