Word: center
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Erickson, Eli guard, and John Herrick, Crimson center, tied for high scoring honors for the evening with 11 tallies. The return of Herrick to form after a slump of several weeks was one of the bright spots of the game for the Cantabs...
Probable starters for the Yardlings are Don McSweeney and Lub Lubchansky, forwards, Homer Peabody, center, and Bob James and Fran Simpson, guards. James will have the job of holding down Pete Dudan, Andover high scorer, while Peabody tangles with veteran Dick Mayo...
About the time that Peter Stnyvesant's $24 island and began to realize there was something west of the Alleghenies other than a horse trading center on the Mississippi and one or two gold fields in Alaska, Americans carried a jack-knife a lump of wax, and a package of miscellaneous stamps for trading purposes in their pants pocket, bought a Tootsic Roll at the corner store, and went to "The Great Train Robbery...
...Tiny Thompson didn't seem to care how many times the puck was shot past him. Rather he played the clown most the time and purposely left the net undefended on many occasion to engage in mad scrambles several feet out. At one time he carried the puck to center ice before losing it. At the time someone mentioned that Tiny was once the fastest member of the Bruins on skates. He did pretty well today even with the pads...
Morover, projects such as this will ultimately lead to a wholesale shift of the center of gravity from the College to the Houses, and this will make easier and more logical the development of individual House "personality." This is an ultimate goal for the House system, and will go far toward remedying the illogical present situation in which Freshmen choose a House on ridiculous criteria the construction of the building, the comfort of the common room chairs, or the number of attractive waitresses. Two years ago House "personality" was a nebulous idea, a pious hope; today there are signs...