Word: pivotal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Busse, a six-footer who learned the game at Newark Academy, ready to step in and replace Giles Scofield, Princeton's captain and high scorer in 1939. In fact Busse, a good hall handler, a fine shot and a digger for forty minutes, already has won for himself the pivot sport, making him the only Sophomore on the starting five that has been used to date...
...Yale nosed out Lou Young, Dacey's running mate, by only one vote. Yale might have been voted a fifth place in the person of center Bill Stack, but since he was unable to play against Harvard. Penn's Frick gets the nod over Alger of Princeton for the pivot...
Yale's inspirational leader, Bill Stack, was one of the great pivot men of the year, but Frick of penn pushed him hard for top honors. Stack lifted the Eli linemen to great heights on many occasions and saved them from open collapse in other games...
...lineup at center in the Tufts game and proved himself by scoring the winning goal. In the Tech game he was the outstanding star, scoring another goal and coming close to several more. "Murphy" has a priceless talent for playmaking which is the factor that makes him a successful pivot man, but neither this nor his accuracy in setting up shots is as obvious to the layman as his speed and agility...
...first eleven, with Burgy Ayres in his regular pivot spot and Mose Hallett elevated to a first-string-left tackle heath went through a brief workout. Following this, a makeshill A team was formed of men who saw little action Saturday, and they were scrimmaged with the Jayvees. George Heiden was a standout in the redshirted A backfield...