Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protégé on this season's squad is ham-fisted Center Bill Wanish, who can hold a basketball in each hand palms down. In last week's game, Bill made 15 points. His No. 1 helper is Negro Elmo Jackson (ten points), a lightning-fast forward. Both Wanish and Jackson were regulars on Allentown's tricky T-formation football team, also coached by Crum, which has also won the Pennsylvania state championship for the past two years...
After dropping five of its first six games, Northeastern has been building itself up like a rolling snowball, in copping three in a row. The visitors' slick, six-feet three-inch forward, "Inga" Walsh, spearheads a fast-breaking attack which shifts into a man to man coverage on the defense. Backing up Walsh, coach Johnny Grinnell has four more competent lads, all over six feet...
Captain Saul Mariaschin will start again at forward for the Crimson, working with Hauptfuhrer or Page. Brady and either Gannon or Henry will be at the guard positions...
Elmore is not the entire Boston College attack, but he helps. John Letvinchuk, a six-foot-four-inch forward, is a skillful forward, as is his co-operative, Phil Kenney. Jim Sharry and Ray Carr, both veterans of last year's B.C. five, are at the guards...
...Varsity, Barclay has instituted one lineup change. Bill Brady, a substitute who saw limited action in previous Crimson engagements, has been moved to a first-string forward berth alongside Leo Page. Brady, according to Barclay, has shown steady improvement of late...