Word: pivotal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Coach Fisher will start A. Horween '20 at centre, thus replacing C. F. Havemeyer '21, who has been playing the pivot position regularly since the Boston College game...
...line will be completed by G. E. Dennis, interscholastic end from South Boston High School. He is over six feet tall and is scheduled to intercept all the forward passes that the Tufts warriors attempt. F. H. Russo, the burly star from Colby Academy, has been holding down the pivot position since the beginning of the season...
...Yale, Harvard and Princeton offered nothing striking in the pivot position, although LaRoche of Yale is entitled to great credit for going successfully through the two big games as a last minute selection. Robinson of Harvard was a cool hand who made no mistakes, but seemed weak in interference. He added to his ball handling ability considerable skill in drop-kicking...
...indifference and who feel themselves called to a wider, nobler, service than that to which the usual political program leads. For, after all, the tariff, the merchant marine and civil service reform, however long and heatedly they may be discussed are not the dominant issues of this campaign. The pivot on which the election really turns is the maintenance of the national spirit, of that love of liberty which does not seek to become license that has made America great in times past...
Cool, the light Cornell centre, seems to be the logical choice at the pivot position. He is very experienced, passes well, and is a valuable man on the defense by reason of his powers at diagnosis. He has been marked all season as a centre of great ability...