Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance to make the best use of their football talent. In practice, things worked out just the opposite. More boys played, but they became the robot-like specialists of the two-platoon system; injuries increased because the players never got a chance to warm up again after riding the bench; and more than 50 colleges quit football because they had neither the money nor the manpower to support the huge two-platoon squads. Last week, abruptly ending an unhappy era, the N.C.A.A.'s football rules committee abolished the two-platoon system, gave the game back to the all-round...
...player-coach this season, after three or four tentative attempts to retire, Baugh, now 38, was willing to turn the passing chores over to younger players. But in the opening game of the season, Coach Baugh knew that his understudy was not yet ready. Getting off the bench, Baugh put on a dazzling performance: eleven straight completions for two touchdowns and an upset victory for the Redskins over the Chicago Cardinals...
...defensive play of Ed Condon in the second half of the last minute Brown victory on Saturday particularly pleased Shepard. Condon came off the bench to hold Brown's top scorer to two field goals...
...Sundry tackles from the bench, a footrace between a fan and the police at a Georgia Tech game (the cop tackled him in the end zone), and the efforts of a Chicago gentleman to set up a "mall-order athletic bureau" and recruit athletes from all over the country...
Ulen's pessimism is perhaps justifiable on two grounds. First, most squads will be "up" for the Crimson. Secondly, the Crimson sadly lacks depth. "That's always been a trouble of ours--we've been lean. When we swim Yale, they have a bench full of guys in Blue uniforms streching from one end of the pool to the other. Our squad looks pretty small...