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...Penn State squad that lost four out of its first five clobbered unbeaten Ohio State 27-0, the year Texas did not win the Southwest Conference championship, the year mighty Mississippi had to settle for a tie with weak little Vanderbilt. It was the year free substitution and the platoon system came back to college football?if the coaches were willing to take penalties to get their subs into the game. It was the year collegians outdrew the pros?when attendance in the Big Ten averaged 59,000 a game to 49,000 in the National Football League. And, most...
...Explainers. Khrushchev's sudden ouster has seemingly stirred little emotion among the Russian people. But shock and indignation have mounted in Communist parties abroad, and the task of soothing the foreign comrades left Russia's new B. & K. team red-eyed with fatigue. Into Moscow swept platoon after platoon of insistent commissars-French, Italian, Austrian, Danish, Indian, Mongolian-all clamoring for explanations. Why had Khrushchev been ousted? How could the new regime justify its coup d'état? What were Moscow's new policies-particularly vis-à-vis Red China? And, ahem! was Nikita all right...
Penn plays two-platoon football, and its defensive unit has at times been quite good this year. Its five-man line, averaging 205 pounds, contained Brown and Rutgers efficiently, though Princeton ran through it easily enough and Cornell, after scoring early touchdowns through the air, managed an efficient running attack...
What does Blackman have to stop Harvard with? Well, to begin with, good depth, perhaps the best in the league. He is the only coach playing three-platoon football, alternating a team of offensive specialists, a defensive team, and a two-way unit...
Cornell plays two-platoon football, alternating an offensive and a defensive unit. On offense the lonely end is out and Cornell features a balanced attack with guards George Arangio (210) and Gene Kunit (235) doing the glocking on pulling plays...