Word: pivots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...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...
...Army game was the pivot. From then on, the varsity played exciting, if not razzle-dazzle football. This was one of the encouraging things the 1951 squad did for Harvard football. It came up from fiat on its back to put on hard-played, crowd-pleasing shows the rest of the year, even if it did not win every game. The Crimson lost to Princeton, for example, by a greater margin than to Cornell. Yet the Tigers' victory seemed much less of a rout than the loss...
Robert Cohen, center of a strong Eliot line, seems to have the pivot post on Closed's team. Dudley Fennel, however, another good middleman, will play a good deal, and could even start...