Word: pivot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another difficulty which has been felt all this winter is the glaring lack of good centers. Dave Eaton and Skip Ervin departed via the diploma route last June to leave the first two pivot positions wide open. To make matters worse, Bob Cox, third string center, and Johnny Paine, Freshman pivotman last year, were both kept off the ice by scholastic probation until this week, when both were released...
With no potential Austie Hardings to fill this tremendous gap, the Crimson mentor was forced to experiment, and it was not until the Princeton "social series" that he set upon rangy Burgy Ayres to pivot the first line. Cox seems to fill the bill on the Second trio now, and George Gebelein, a promising Sophomore, will probably continue to center the third line...
...Bill Stewart at forwards, Sam Hunter, another Soph, at center, and Jolly in the back-court, with Junior Frank Burgess, who at present holds a slight edge over the slow starting Jack. When Howie Dunbar gets himself into shape it is expected that he will be moved into the pivot spot and Hunter will be shoved back to reinforce the guard situation...
...been the regular center all season, was laid out Thursday with a rib injury, and in his place Howie Gleason, until recently a backfield operative, will start. Gleason has had no game experience at center, but has seen a lot of service under practice-session fire at the pivot post this week...
Sophomore George Putnam will be at right end for the opening whistle while Dave Fay and Bill Barnes will start at the tackle slots. Bill La Croix should start at the pivot post...