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...Whole Man has returned to football. Now that substitutions have been strictly re-limited, industrialized specialization has left the gridiron and real sport has come back. Two-platooning may have enabled more men to participate in the game, but it certainly did not give more of them a chance to play football. Imagine baseball with separate hitting and fielding teams, and you get an exaggerated idea of what unlimited substitution was doing to football...
...little politicos buzzed into Washington for the big Gridiron dinner, Kansas Senator Frank Carlson, a trusted Eisenhower lieutenant, strolled inconspicuously into the office of New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges. Carlson wanted to talk about the problem of electing a Senate majority leader for the next session of Congress. Bridges restated his position: he wanted to be chairman of the Appropriations Committee; he did not want to be majority leader unless that was the only way to avoid an open fight between Bob Taft's friends and the Eisenhower people who seemed to like California's Bill...
...this, they presumably mean outside games with gridiron powerhouses, the sort of thing that stretches any admissions director's conscience. What is forgotten is that many such out-landers are not so powerful as all that. Teams fielded by such colleges as Colgate and Davidson are much better suited to Harvard's schedule than, say, Pennsylvania or even Princeton...
...Housemasters are at present debating restricting the extended hours to non-football weekends and keeping the room permission for gridiron Saturdays set at the present 8 p.m. No decision has been reached as yet, however, and none can be expected until after the Housemasters' monthly meeting in January...
...second honor to come to Fortunato today. Earlier, he and Ed Woodsum, ace end, were awarded the New Haven Gridiron Club prize as the best Yale football players who performed in the Yale Bowl during the 1952 campaign...