Word: platoonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...None of this two-platoon stuff for me," says Henry, "I can hardly figure out one starting squad, much less two." He intends to use pretty much the same men on offense and defence throughout the game...
...lost but three first stringers from its 1948 two platoon system: Joe Quinn, offensive right guard, John Rogers, offensive right end, and Bob Dean, second string fullback and the team's best punter. The entire defensive platoon is back to a man, and if the word out of Ithaca may be considered Gospel, three excellent replacements have turned up for Quinn, Rogers, and Dean...
Cornell, according to the scouting report filed by Coaches Ben McCabe and Henry Lamar, has one of the four fastest teams in the country, as well as boasting depth in both lines and backfield. They use a complete two-platoon system, and their backfield includes such formidables as Hilary Chollet, Jeff Fleishman, Frank Miller, and Lynn Dorset...
Harvard, with a year under Valpey since it last played Columbia, has an edge as far as experience and gridiron poise go. Columbia's defensive platoon includes five sophomores who could be fooled every so often. And there are a like number of sophs in the offensive group who haven't been playing together for very long and who probably haven't come up against a hard-charging line...
Little has thus been forced to climb on the two-platoon system bandwagon, even to the point of employing offensive and defensive coaches. A sixty-minute worker himself, Little is aided by such former Lion luminaries as Gene Rossides and Paul Governali...