Word: midfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North, coached by Army's Ben Touchstone, trailed until the final quarter despite a strategy which threw the South off during the early stages. Touchstone had his second midfield, which included Hudner, play behind the opposing team's cage instead of out front. Thus Hudner was actually playing an attackman's position. Meanwhile, the long sticks of the Southern defensemen ragged the North's attack, which was out front, instead of covering the midfielders behind the goal. The North also had a decided advantage on the center draw...
Munro was particularly surprised that Hudner, considered the best attackman in the Northeast, should have been named to play on the midfield. Hudner's forte is his playmaking and dodging behind the cage, whereas midfielders work the ball up and down the field...
...Crimson coach pointed to the anomaly of Gordie McWilliams of Williams, a midfielder who played only one season of attack for the Purple, shifting to attack in the North-South game while Hudner plays midfield. Munro, however, does hope that Hudner can be switched before the game. Performances at R.P.I. will be a large factor in All-American selections...
Besides Hudner and McWilliams, three other N.E.L. players were picked for the North-South 21-man squad. Bob Fiertz of Dartmouth and Andy Rockefeller of Yale will both play midfield on a North team which includes men from the nation's two top teams, Army and Princeton. The South squad has players form three Crimson opponents, Navy, Johns Hopkins, and Maryland...
Attack: McWilliam (Williams), Wadleigh (New Hampshire), and Patterson (Springfield); Midfield: Fiertz (Dartmouth), Rockefeller (Yale), and Lyons (Dartmouth); Defense: Atwood (Springfield), Fields (Yale, and Bloomer (Dartmouth; Goal: Vincent (Springfield...