Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Possibilities as starting forward combinations are Johnnie Crocker, Bob Feloney, and Dave Farrell, with Bill Ayres, Bill Hamlin, and Lou Preston as alternates. However, two other lines of Tom Mosely, John McKeon, and Sid Greenly, and Dave Key, Art Lee and Wally Sears are strongly in the running...
With three starters over six feet, Coach Warren Berg '44 is looking forward to control of both backboards as well as a steady flow of Yardling baskets. Pat Daly, six foot four, will start at center. Flanking him at the forward positions will be John Rockwell, six feet three and Frank Lionette, six foot two. Lionette in an ex-Everett player and he will be trying doubly hard before his former coach...
...What forwards will make up the lines remains a question right now, but based on past records, the leading candidates are Bill Ayres and John Crocker. Ayres was captain of the '45 Varsity and ended the season at defense, though he had experience in both departments and will undoubtedly play on one of the lines. Also a returnee from last year's team, Crocker was a first-string forward...
...perfectly natural to New Yorkers, but inexplicable to Europeans, who can never quite abandon their ingrained belief that the U.S. scene consists largely of Indian massacres and gang battles. Could the law-respecting British, for instance, understand why two women customers who had seen the shooting failed to come forward until the police laboriously sought them...
...publisher of a little, twelve-year-old Illinois newspaper asked his friend Abe Lincoln for an autobiographical sketch.* Publisher Jesse Fell didn't intend to use it in his own Bloomington Pantograph, because everyone in those parts knew all about Abe. He wanted to forward copies of it to eastern papers, to get them interested in Lincoln for President. The Lincoln manuscript has never left the family's possession; neither has the newspaper. Last week the Pantagraph celebrated its 100th anniversary with an ad-fat, 156-page issue...