Word: pivoting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman basketball five seek their fourth win in as many starts. They face probably their toughest opponents of the season, according to Coach Berg. "Tufts is tall and fast. Their pivot, Don Goodwin, has been favorably compared to the Cross' star, George Kaffan, and his 6 ft., 5 in, may cause us some trouble," he said yesterday...
Extra inches meant little except in the pivot spot. Centers Nelson of Winthrop and Rockwell of Adams commanded the backboards. In the Dudley-Kirkland fracas small Herbert Lewis was guarded by giant Tom Guthrie...
...opener and went down before the Brockton YMCA five Wednesday night. John Altrocchi and Bill Mobraaten will line up in the forward posts with Dick Covey and Chuck Brynteson covering the guard positions and Frank Lionette at center. Lanky Pat Dailey will see part time action in the pivot post, while John Goldsmith and Dave McGiffert will get a chance to fill in at the forward slots...
...Bill Brady, Chip Gannon, and the still ineligible Walt McCurdy, Barclay has five experienced guards, but of the coach's 12-man squad, only Cliff Crosby has always been a forward. Captain George Hauptfuhrer was shifted from center to the other forward slot when Barclay acquired two other capable pivot men in Bill Prior and John-Rockwell...
Last night proved that the exceptional all-round improvement shown during the last week of practice in team play was not only a dream raiser. Plays clicked and extinguished any semblance of a Tech defense, with pivot-man Pat McCormick, his alternator John, Lombard, and Smith virtually roping off the backboard areas and tipping the points in at will over the heads of the M.I.T. quintet...