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Caldwell emphasized that injuries had increased and were more serious since the two-platoon system was abolished. Raimo agreed with him. Neither coach mentioned that their records had taken a nose-dive since the rule change...
...football's two-platoon era this season marked the decline & fall of the specialist, the player who could block but not tackle, the player who could pass but could not defend against enemy passes. This year All-America football selectors did not have to worry about such refinements as offensive and defensive teams. Last week and this, the Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Look and Collier's released their choices. Notre Dame Halfback Johnny Lattner, for the second year in a row, made everybody's team. The consensus...
...anted up some $250.000 at a time when Magsaysay's Nationalist Party was seriously short of funds. On election day. 25 U.S. officers were sprinkled around polling areas by Major General Robert M. Cannon to ''observe" units of the Filipino army on election day. and a platoon of U.S. foreign correspondents, dispersed through the islands, helped protect Filipinos against monkey business at the polls...
...this had been a tough season for a fine passer. Injuries, defensive weaknesses, and the difficulty of working in the same backfield with Clasby, had slowed down Lowenstein this year and had prevented him from throwing touchdown passes more than any defensive backfield could have. Lowenstein was a one platoon player in a two platoon game, a T formation passer in a single wing backfield, yet he was always an offensive threat and a credit to Harvard football.CRIMSONStephen S. ShohetBOB COWLES hauls down a pass during the indecisive first period of Saturday's game, which Harvard eventually...
Captain Girard "Jerry" Haverty, one of two seniors in Kelley's starting eleven, will start at fullback. He is playing his third year of varsity ball, after two seasons of defensive action under the double platoon system...