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...defeat Harvard by one touchdown, Princeton coach Charley Caldwell walked into the post game press conference and astounded the assembled reporters. "Now if you want to watch some really good football," he said, "you'll go out there and pump for the return of spring practice and two-platoon football...
...year later, on the eve of the post-season coaches' conferences, Caldwell's views seem as inappropriate and undeserved as on their first utterance. Despite his argument about improving the game and reducing injuries, one platoon, fall season football has proven its worth...
...case for the retention of one platoon football is considerably more clear cut. The scores of Harvard's Ivy League games for the two years under the ruling are the soundest argument for limited substitution. The biggest margin of victory is still the Crimson's 13-0 win over Yale in 1953, while the present season, in which Harvard lost to the University of Massachusetts and still beat Cornell and Princeton should convince anyone of the close competitive game which the one platoon rule has returned to football...
...proponents of two-platoons argue that it produced a better game and allowed many more boys to play, but close football is often a very fine substitute for professional football, particularly on the amateur level. Admittedly, there were many more boys who played under the old two-platoon rules, but perhaps the resultant specialist was not a football player in the complete sense of the word...
Even after two years of de-emphasis, football is still dangerously susceptible to the combined pressures of bigness and popularity. This year is no time to slacken requirements. Even if the NCAA in its forthcoming meeting returns to two-platoon football, the Ivy colleges, now entering the threshold of legitimacy, should limit substitution, just as they should limit practice sessions...