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1946–47 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

The starting lineup included 4 of the 5 Whiz Kids, guards Smiley and Vance, forwards Phillip and Ken Menke as well as All-American guard Walt Kirk and Fred Green at center.

1955 FC Dinamo București season

Forwards: Carol Bartha (12/4), Ion Suru (22/7), Dumitru Nicolae (21/2), Alexandru Ene (23/14), Onoriu Boian (7/1), Nicolae Magheţ (11/2), Valeriu Neagu (23/10), Mihai Raica (1/0).

1982–83 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

Guards Bruce Douglas and Doug Altenberger, and forwards Scott Meents and Efrem Winters joined sophomores George Montgomery and Anthony Welch to form the nucleus for a team that would win 95 games during the next four seasons.

2012–13 San Diego Sockers season

In postseason honors, forwards Kraig Chiles and Brian Farber were named to the 2012-13 PASL All-League First Team.

2013–14 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team

In addition to the five high school players signed, coach Bob Huggins also received commitments from Junior College transfers Jonathan Holton (Palm Beach Community College) and Remi Dibo (Casper College), both forwards.

Aaron Paye

On August 8, 2008, the Minnesota Thunder announced a trade with the Atlanta Silverbacks, sending Nathan Knox back to the Minnesota Thunder, a team he had played for previously, and Paye going to the Sliverbacks in an even swap, as both are forwards.

Bernard Hackett

Hackett was one of several forwards to sign for Chester in the summer of 1955, as manager Louis Page also purchased Charlie Jolley, George Allman, Jack Haines, Jim Collins and Frank Wayman.

Billy Jarman

Only five players have played test matches for Great Britain as both a back and a forward, they are; Colin Dixon, Frank Gallagher, Laurie Gilfedder, Billy Jarman, and Harry Street.

Carlo Checchinato

Checchinato's international try total was an all-time record for forwards until 2007, when it was surpassed by Colin Charvis of Wales.

Craig Dowd

In 2009 he took up a position as the forwards coach for North Harbour in the Air New Zealand Cup.

Czechoslovakia at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Forwards: Josef Maleček (5 goals scored), Jiří Tožička (1), Oldřich Kučera (4), Ladislav Troják, Zdeněk Jirotka (3), Drahoš Jirotka (3), Alois Cetkovský, Walter Ullrich

East Midlands derby

Those who have include goalkeepers John Middleton, Steve Sutton and Lee Camp, defenders Gary Charles, Gary Mills and Darren Wassall, midfielders Steve Hodge, Glyn Hodges, Darryl Powell and Lars Bohinen and forwards Mikkel Beck, Dexter Blackstock and Dean Saunders.

Every Vote Equal

It includes forwards by John B. Anderson, Birch Bayh, John Buchanan and Tom Campbell.

Foster mounting

Although possibly not part of the original intention the mounting allowed the Lewis gun to fire forwards and upwards, rather than straight ahead, to attack an enemy aircraft from behind and below, a favourite tactic of the ace Albert Ball and a precursor of the Schräge Musik tactics used by German night fighters in the Second World War.

Gre-No-Li

The three forwards led Sweden to Olympic gold at the 1948 Olympic tournament in London.

Honoré Lechasseur

They both travelled forwards in time to an alternative 1984 (based on the novel by George Orwell), where they spent time trying to work out how to get back to their own time – which they ultimately did, whilst also ensuring that the future they had witnessed never came about.

Iron Monger

The story then fast forwards to Obadiah being enrolled in a special school at his mother's personal request.

Jacques Lamoureux

His twin sisters Jocelyne and Monique, born 1989, both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the woman's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.

Janet Tavakoli

She taught "Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, Options and Swaps" at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as adjunct associate professor of finance.

Jason Leonard

Leonard played his whole England career in a largely dominant pack and in his early career played with established forwards such as Brian Moore, Wade Dooley, Dean Richards, Mick Skinner, Mike Teague and Peter Winterbottom.

Jason Lidden

With the arrival of new coach Warren Ryan and players Paul Langmack, Andrew Farrar, and David Gillespie in 1991, Lidden was moved to the forwards, but played five-eighth in that year's semi-finals, the club's first appearance for many years.

Jean-Philippe Lamoureux

His sisters Jocelyne and Monique, both born 1989 (twins), both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the women's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.

Jeffrey L. Gurian

The book traces the history of the Comic Strip Live comedy club in New York City, from its opening in 1976 forwards.

Jermaine Palmer

Despite being the first signing of the season, and initially presented as a first team player, Palmer found his path to winning a place in the team permanently blocked, and he found himself playing second fiddle to the likes of fellow forwards Michael Reddy, Gary Jones and Martin Gritton.

Jimmy Rutherford

Rutherford's goals per game ratio at Queens does however compare well against other prominent forwards to have played for Queens surpassing such as Dave Halliday, Billy Houliston, Jim Patterson, Neil Martin, Andy Thomson and Stephen Dobbie.

Ludwig Goldbrunner

During his international career, Goldbrunner played against the best center forwards in European football, namely England’s George Camsell, Portugal’s Fernando Peyroteo, Belgium’s Raymond Braine, France’s Paul Nicholas, Italy’s Silvio Piola and Spain’s Isidro Langara.

Masrezwan Masturi

Faced with heavy competition from fellow forwards Ashrin Shariff, Norikazu Murakami as well as attacking midfielders Therdsak Chaiman and John Wilkinson, Masrezwan could only manage 20 appearances (majority as substitutes) in the entire season.

Mathieu Schneider

Drafted in the third round of the 1987 NHL Entry Draft, 44th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens, Schneider was the Canadiens' fourth pick (after forwards Andrew Cassels and John LeClair, and fellow defenseman Éric Desjardins).

Miljan Miljanić

He also moved Pirri from his midfield role into the sweeper defensive role while the offensive movement usually converged with crosses for target forwards Santillana and new signing from Espanyol Roberto Martínez.

Missouri Plan

But then the nominee must undergo an evaluation by the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation of the State Bar of California, which then forwards a nonbinding evaluation to the Governor.

Nellie Ball

Nelson used an unconventional lineup that featured three guards (Richmond, Hardaway and Šarūnas Marčiulionis) and two forwards (Mullin and the 6-8 Rod Higgins at center).

Noh Alam Shah

Once regarded as one of the best forwards in South East Asia, Alam Shah was a member of the Singapore national football team when it won the ASEAN Football Championship (formerly known as the 'Tiger Cup') in 2005 and 2007.

Nutopia

In 2006, a Nutopia website was created that forwards to a site about the documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon, distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment.

Philip Cezar

He is the premier example of a power forward with finesse unlike the power forwards of today like Eric Menk and Danny Ildefonso, and much earlier, Alvin Patrimonio and Nelson Asaytono, who rely primarily on sheer power and brute strength.

Pontypool RFC

The club's strength during its glory days was its forwards, particularly the legendary Pontypool Front Row celebrated in song by Max Boyce.

Ray Shero

In his first season on the job with the Penguins, Shero made a small splash in the free agent market, signing forwards Mark Recchi and Jarkko Ruutu, along with defenseman Mark Eaton.

Rodger Wylde

The 1979-80 season saw Wylde not playing as regularly for the team as Terry Curran, Ian Mellor and Andy McCulloch became the main forwards during Wednesday’s promotion that season from Division Three.

Ryan Whitney

Under the guidance of new general manager, Ray Shero, the Penguins improved from a last-place finish in the Eastern Conference the year before, to a playoff berth, with Whitney part of the youth movement in Pittsburgh that included forwards Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Jordan Staal and goaltender Marc-André Fleury.

Scutosaurus

As with some species of Pareiasaurus, with which it is clearly related, the quadrato-jugal or cheekbones extend outwards and forwards, makings an angle of about 120° with the maxillary border.With its large cheekbones, Scutosaurus may have been able to make a loud bellowing sound.

Sorry, I've Got No Head

A weatherman (William Andrews) that runs backwards and forwards and ends up falling over.

Southern reedbuck

It gets its name from two Latin words: reduncas (meaning bent backwards and curved, while the horns are bent forwards) and arundo (harundo) (meaning a reed; hence arundinum, pertaining to reeds).

Stanky Legg

In the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, USA forwards Jozy Altidore and Charlie Davies used this dance as their goal celebration, making it a popular reference in the underground US Soccer scene.

When Smuts Goes

Researcher Gary Baines compared the book's deeply pessimistic message and its looking forwards to a disastrous future to the tone of J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians several decades later (1982).

Yugoslavia at the 1968 Winter Olympics


Forwards: Franc Smolej, Bogomir Jan, Boris Renaud, Albin Felc, Viktor Tišler, Rudi Hiti, Slavko Beravs, Miroslav Gojanovič, Roman Smolej, Janez Mlakar, Ciril Klinar.


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