Word: pivots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians improved defense still failed to stymie completely the Crimson's weaving fast-break attack. Ed Smith poured in seven baskets, mostly on his hook shot, from his pivot position, and Rockwell, despite Rowe and later McDonald hovering over him, dropped in five...
Coach Roy Greene's two-platoon squad is loaded with speedsters and six foot pivot men. Hilary Chollet and Paul Lansaw, last year's high scorers, are missing from the Cornell lineup this season, but Greene has replaced them with a couple of six foot four sophomores, Fred Eydt and John Werner, Key man in Greene's attack is center Walt Ashbaugh, one of the fastest men in the EIBL...
...None of his squad was particularly fast--this meant Shepard's favorite fast-break brand of ball wouldn't work. But John Rockwell and Ed Smith were tail and good workers under the basket; be decided to concentrate his attack around the two lanky forwards. He built a double-pivot game around them, and it promptly paid off. Rockwell's work put him among the nation's top scorers by the middle of the fall...
Shepard had more trouble trying to find three men who could work the ball around the double pivot. Bill Hickey, up from the '52 squad, turned out to be chief play-maker, and Gerry Murphy, another of last year's freshmen, began to take on much of the outside shooting. Shepard still is trying to find a fifth player for his starting quintet, however, and has worked through Jim Gabler, Dick Covey, and Cliff Crosby without too much success...
High scorer for the varsity was Ed Smith with 14 points; Brown's Mahoney also made 14. Both Smith and John Rockwell were crowded in their double pivot attack, with the Bruins concentrating defense men under the basket, and the tall forwards were helped out by Gerry Murphy's book shot, which produced nine points, and Cliff Crosby's work from outside. Crosby tied Rockwell with 11 points...