Word: pivot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bunks Burditt, the Varsity's high-scoring captain, was successfully bottled up by big, close-guarding Cornell players and made only three field goals; but the inability of the Harvard guards to pass into Bunks not only for pivot shots but also for setting up scoring plays damaged the whole Crimson attack...
What Haushofer had to say to Hitler was partly based on a short pamphlet (The Geographical Pivot of History) written in 1904 by British Geographer Sir Halford Mackinder (who expanded it in 1919 into the now reissued Democratic Ideals and Reality). Like Haushofer, Mackinder knew the significance of that stony string of sea bases that joined England to her colonies and dominions. What, he asked, could menace them and the sea power which upheld them? Answer: the possession of a body of land so vast and rich that sea power could never encircle it effectively. Mackinder saw such a body...
...change of defense and Captain "Bunks" Burditt's uncanny knack at caging pivot shots and drawing fouls enabled the Crimson hoopsters to come from behind and defeat a well-coached Wesleyan quintet 63 to 46 in the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night...
Burditt, who tallied 25 points before the evening was over, went to work from his pivot post, and with his peculiar under-handed bucket shot, succeeded in either drawing two fouls or dropping a deuce almost every time he was fed. George Dillon's hook shots from the foul line helped the Crimson rise, and a one-handed jump shot by Hugh Hyde with seconds remaining in the first half put them ahead 21 to 19 at intermission time...
...rout assumed gigantic proportions, Brown removed Burditt, who caged nine of twelve fouls, and his cohorts, and the second five took over. Don Lutze played his usual strong defensive game, and Hugh Hyde's pivot shots in the Crimson's double-bucket system began to find the range later in the contest...