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This year, Evansville's Purple Aces are acting more like the Purple Gang-knocking off Iowa, Northwestern, Notre Dame, George Washington and Louisiana State. On the night after Christmas, while 12,203 fans screamed themselves hoarse and a platoon of cheerleaders bounded about the court, Evansville trampled a good Massachusetts team, 113-82. Last week, with victories over South Dakota State (76-63) and South Dakota (98-71), the Aces ran their streak to eight straight, turned the small-college rankings race into a walkover-collecting all but one of the votes for the No. 1 spot...
Under this year's substitution rule, two substitutes were allowed into the game when the clock was running. When time was out, substitutions were unlimited. Proponents of platoon football resorted to deliberate penalties, deliberately incomplete passes, punts out of bounds and other desperate measures to get their specialists into the ball game...
Harvard and Yale almost alone among Ivy teams did not platoon. "I'm glad now that we didn't," Yovicsin said. "I think we beat some teams that we might not have if we had platooned. We thought at the beginning of practice that we would platoon eventually, but that we didn't know our personnel well enough to start right away and tell 50 boys to play offense and 50 defense...
...says Hesburgh, the hard-won image is endangered by a $4,000,000 Hollywood farce called John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, in which Shirley MacLaine and a platoon of harem houris corrupt the Notre Dame football team. Last week in Manhattan, Notre Dame charged foul play, filed an in junction in New York State Supreme Court to block 20th Century-Fox from showing the movie...
...INDIVIDUALISM OF GIL EVANS (Verve). Evans, revered arranger for Claude Thornhill and Miles Davis, gathered a platoon of excellent musicians to stir musical colors with him (in The Barbara Song, El Toreador). The orchestration is sensuously full of woodwinds and French horns, and the arrangements so complex that they invite close listening...