Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holt turned towards coach Joe Restic and indicated he wanted to try for the score. Restic assented, and Holt called his favorite right option play and dove the necessary yard...
...Stanford faculty committee that first uncovered the staggering grade point average was appointed four years ago when the university did away with D and F grades and permitted students to take a pass/fail option in any course outside their major. The committee has until Christmas to make its final report on how the new system is working. It probably will not be too harsh. "We just live in a nonjudgmental society," said Committee Chairman Bradley Efron, a professor of statistics. But today's graduates may be in for a rude shock when they discover that in the workaday world...
Though he's gained 739 yards rushing in four years (averaging 5.2 yards per run) Plunkett prefers not to run with the ball. "I don't mind running on the option play, but would rather pitch out," he says. "I can't do it 10 or 15 times a game. I'd rather not take that kind of punishment...
Still, no universal moral will be drawn from a young football player's misfortune on an October afternoon. Sports injuries like Waldrep's leave little room for discussion. The only way to eliminate them is to eliminate contact sports altogether, hardly a viable option. Players who love to "hit" wouldn't stand for it, nor would the thousands of armchair quarterbacks who spend their spare weekend hours watching athletes parade up and down synthetic turf. All that can be hoped for in our sports-conscious society is that every possible precaution be taken to prevent serious injury...
...increase could also be due to the desire of students to reduce the cost of schooling, or to a desire to begin professional training as soon as possible. At any rate, the factors that possibly account for the rise are so liable to fluctuation as to make this option difficult to assess...