Tottenham's attacks had looked blunt up to that point, not least because it was without star center forward Emmanuel Adebayor.
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Which aren't bad numbers at all for a player who only spent part of his career as a center forward.
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Fernando Llorente, an old-school battering ram of a center forward, has been embroiled in a contractual dispute all season long with Athletic Bilbao.
In 2009, out went central defender Kolo Toure (another captain: Do we see a pattern here?) and center forward Emmanuel Adebayor, the second-leading goal scorer the year before.
Morten Olsen, the Danish boss, put out a lineup that included a center forward, two wingers who remained high up the pitch and an attacking midfielder and ended up with 47% of the possession.
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Rooney also played in central midfield for Manchester United at times last season, when he completed more passes than any other center forward in the English Premier League, according to statistics provider Opta Sports.
In a game it had to win if it harbored serious hopes of advancing from Group D, England coach Roy Hodgson named Andy Carroll, the 6-foot-3 center forward, to a lineup designed to unsettle Sweden and exploit a supposed weakness at crosses.
"We wanted to give the city something to be happy about, " said center forward Chris Kelly, who had an assist and a goal, the 100th of his NHL career, adding that he was disappointed to be unable to deliver a win for Boston.
The Center looks forward to continued partnership with the Manhattan Institute and Politeia in advancing these important ends.
"It's almost a shame he discovered the role of center-forward so late in his career, " said Udinese coach Guidolin.
Though not commenting on the date of the event, Microsoft did mention that it would be focusing more on the Xbox's role as a set-top entertainment center going forward.
With two central midfielders behind him, a winger on either side and a prolific center-forward like Mr. Torres ahead of him, Mr. Gerrard had license to roam and freelance.
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We at the Center look forward to working closely with sensible elected officials on both sides of the aisle to help this country prevail, as it must, in the War for the Free World.
But when Italy striker Fabio Quagliarella left Udinese to join Juventus on the eve of the 2009-10 season, former head coach Pasquale Marino opted to field Di Natale, then 31 years old, as a center-forward.
The three-on-three game will enable gamers to play as a guard, forward or center, draining buckets from outside and pulling off special moves like alley-oops.
Center Cody Hodgson, forward Marcus Foligno and defenseman T.
Watson joined starting guards Deron Williams and Joe Johnson, center Brook Lopez and forward Reggie Evans on the floor for the pivotal moment of Sunday's victory: a 17-point Nets run early in the fourth quarter.
The Sabres forward shoved Rangers center Brad Richards from behind and into the boards on Sunday night.
The Center for Security Policy looks forward to hearings that will apparently begin next week on the Halperin nomination.
Putting Stoudemire at center and Anthony at power forward for long stretches may be asking too much of both players both on the defensive end and from a fatigue standpoint.
The Center for Security Policy looks forward to a hearing on Thursday that offers the prospect of a measure of balance to what has generally been undue influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and its apologists in the halls of Congress and elsewhere in official Washington.
The Center for Security Policy looks forward to working with legislators and the executive branch to ensure that America 's security interests and sovereignty are safeguarded as our record trade deficits give rise to ever-increasing opportunities for foreign investors to recycle U.S. dollars through purchases of what remains of our industrial, technology and service sectors.
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These days he is healthy and looking forward to completing the Center for Sustainable Living sometime this winter.
But beyond any single innovation, the exhibition argues that the most modern aspect of Uruk was its status as a forward-thinking urban center.
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Stepping forward, aiming into the center of the clump, the older man fired, reloaded, and fired again.
The touchstone of the Springs Preserve is the forward-thinking Desert Living Center.
The Sabres also called up center Luke Adam fill in for injured forward Ville Leino, who will miss his second game with an upper-body injury.
Trading away Gay also eases a luxury tax hit due next season, while concentrating the team around center Marc Gasol and All-Star forward Zach Randolph.
Cavaliers center Tyler Zeller was given a technical foul in the third quarter for shoving Nuggets center JaVale McGee while Faried and Cleveland forward Tristan Thompson got tangled up on a couple of occasions.
And there is the whole concept of the network service center, by which data can be forward-staged and transmitted via the network as opposed to people picking up their hard drives, or, in this case, what used to be thumb drives or servers, and moving them.
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