Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Priddy's first line has the two high-scoring whiz-kids of the team in left-wing and captain Amory Hubbard and center Walt Greeley, kid brother of last year's strong varsity defenseman Dick Greeley. Walt, an all-scholastic forward from Framingham, looked like the fastest and smoothest man on a weak squad in the Melrose debacle...
...ball and swung. The ball whistled down the middle of the mist-shrouded fairway and disappeared from view. Sam pursed his lips, blinked his grey, button-bright eyes and was satisfied. Then bantam Ben Hogan, the little man who had come back to haunt him, stepped forward. To the dismay of 4,500 assembled witnesses, Ben hit one that hooked crazily and landed in a ditch out of bounds...
...Holy Cross success was depth in its platoons. What Forward Bob Cousy (rhymes with woozy) added was near-perfection at handling a basketball, plus a touch of crowd-pleasing showmanship seldom seen on college courts. One of his specialties: a behind-the-back dribble in which he raced down the floor at top speed, dribbling with his right hand, then bounced the ball behind him and pivoted off in another direction, dribbling lefthanded. Another: stealing the ball from an opponent about to pass. Against Kansas, Cousy stole the ball twice in seven seconds, scored four of the 261 points...
...Hughes libretto, Bert, mulatto son of a white plantation owner and a Negro housekeeper, puts his white half forward after he comes home from World War II. He begins mildly enough; he just drinks his Coke in the drugstore like anybody else, instead of taking it out back...
...average of a little better than 13 points per game in the varsity basket ball team's ten remaining contests will enable forward John Rockwell to set a second all-time Harvard scoring record...