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...captain. Al Stein. These two will team at the guards, with another letterman, Paul Brandt. Sophomore Ed Lehman, who averaged over 15 points on his freshman team, will play at the other forward position. Six food seven inch Dick Johnson will be the other starter in the center pivot...
Blodnick and Lionette, who played together for the first time in a varsity contest, worked very well in a shifting pivot arrangement. Blodnick was substituted for forward and Captain John Stevenson early in the first half and stayed in for most of the rest of the game. He ended up second in scoring with 13 points behind guard Bill Dennis' 14, while Lion- ette scored 11 markers...
Wilson this year has one player, Dick Manning, whose style he is working especially hard to revamp. Manning played the pivot position in high school, where he learned to shoot mostly one-hand shoot from inside the foul line...
Wilson, however, decided that he did not need a pivot man on the taller-than-average freshman team. So he is now teaching Manning how to shoot set shots from the outside and only come in to the basket to take rebounds. In the opening freshman game against M.I.T. Saturday, Manning was purposely instructed to stay out. This was in order to lure the Engineers' big center away from the backboards which he would have controlled if he had played in close...
...other four starters are all over six feet, but none of them is big enough to become pivot man. For this reason, Wilson has decided to play all of them on the outside, with all four able to cut down the middle. Dick Manning will play at the center slot, while Harry Sacks and Paul Shaw will team at the forwards. Rolin Perry will be at the other guard...