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Jordan also said that Bill Frate, junior guard who suffered a cracked fibula in Tuesday's practice, will be out for the season. His loss is a blow to plans for a two-platoon line, the coach continued. "I would have had confidence in this second line," Jordan said, "but Frate was the key player...
...Jordan Olivar. And what old Blues feared after he was injured has happened--his sucessor, Jim Lopez, just hasn't shown the passing accuracy that Yale must depend on. Lopez has helped the Elis defensively, but probably right now Olivar would trade all of last year's defensive platoon for a small, slow, little man like Carroll Lowenstein, with a sturdy accurate arm like Lowenstein...
There are other problem for Olivar. One has been finding a place for Yale captain Joe Fortunato. Fortunato, a clever hard tackling linebacker last year just hasn't been able to make the transition to the game of one platoon. He isn't a shifty runner, and he can't play the line...
...Platoon System. As Crown Princess of Greece, Frederika of Hanover was nearer to occupying a real throne than any member of her family had been for generations. But the shaky throne of the Glücksburgs was no stable institution like the one which long-lived Victoria had kept them from mounting in England. Some 3,000 years before, the ancient Greeks had cast out their hereditary rulers and set up the world's first democratic government. During all but one of the many centuries since the collapse of those democracies, the Greeks have lived as conquered peoples under...
...crowned George I, King of the Hellenes; 50 years later, he was assassinated. Ever since then, the Greek people have been voting the patient Glücksburgs on and off their throne with the unpredictable frequency of a football coach substituting players under the two-platoon system. Paul's brother. George II, was enthroned three times and dethroned twice. Their father. King Constantine, was twice called to the throne and twice thrown...