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...reaches six feet six inches into the air and has the breadth and depth as well to hand out plenty of punishment under the basket. Having served three years in the Army before heading Cambridgeway, Dalley is the only veteran on the squad and is slated to handle the-pivot post as center...
Coming from Everett High Lionette plays a local brand of basketball, giving Berg the typical problem of a Freshman coach-synthesizing the various sectional styles into one. Frank boasts a wicked pivot-shot from the basket and plays heads-up defensive ball...
Barclay expressed a preference for a single-pivot offensive, "if," he adds, "the practice sessions disclose enough tall and talented center material." the Varsity will use a man-to-man defense, said Barclay, who favors a fast-moving, rapid-passing style of play...
...better. At one end of the field, the tackle coach is instructing eleven tackles in the refinements of "forearm shivers." At the other end, twelve brutish guards are doing "duck walks." Nine T-formation quarterbacks, never far from the centers, are working on a half-dozen different types of pivot-the crossover, reverse, reverse-deep, hop-around, slice and crossfire...
...When questioned at practice yesterday, he said that he intended to try Herb Neal at short. Neal has been clouting the ball hard in practice and hit two long blows in the Bowdoin game. He also has shown a lot of pep and fire in his play around the pivot position during practice...