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COLUMBIA 35, BUCKNELL 3--You know there isn't a whole lot happening on the Columbia football scene when the big press release of the week is "John Witkowski vs. Columbia--quarterbacking greats." Betcha didn't know he, already completed more passes than Sid Luckman did in his years as the Lion signal caller...
...Even Sid Luckman, one of the best quarterbacks ever to play pro football, couldn't pull Columbia out of its then-70-year slump. He was named to the All-America team while directing the Columbia offense in both 1938 and '39, but at the same time, the Lions suffered through 3-6 and 2-4-2 seasons...
...purpose arena that would serve equally well for football and baseball, a neat trick never satisfactorily performed. For example, when stadiums basically designed for football are also used for baseball, the outfield is likely to be so shallow that even weak hitters tend to turn into Hank Aarons. Charles Luckman Associates, the big Los Angeles architectural firm, decided on a novel approach: they designed a stadium that called for two large grandstand sections in fixed positions at the north and south ends of the field; the four other sections, paired on the east and west sides, were to be moved...
...move the massive structures, each of which would be as high as a 14-story building and weigh 1,750 tons? After looking at a variety of techniques, the Luckman designers, collaborating with Rolair Systems, Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif, found the answer in air-film technology. Already used by Boeing to move heavy airframes about and by San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system to swing subway cars around at terminals, this new technology allows large, bulky objects to be maneuvered on so-called air bearings-thin (.031 in.), porous plastic disks. When air is forced through...
...fact, says Luckman's project chief, Samuel M. Burnett Jr., the stands can be maneuvered by muscle power alone. All it could take to prepare the stadium for baseball next spring is some season-end shoving by the football team...