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...League, which includes Brown, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Cornell, banned spring drills last spring. With this fall's abolition of the two platoon system, however, speculation had it that spring practice might return...
...last spring, with praise from the advocates of de-emphasis, and with groans from coaches, and perhaps, a minority of players. It has yet to be demonstrated that the loss of spring practice has resulted in more injuries, worse games, or extended losses, even in the days of two platoon football...
...platoon system has left the game this year, and I hope, for good. But to argue that because the two platoon system is gone, more time will be required to instill the principles of survival in players is unnecessary. Coaches will now work with 11 players rather than with 44, and will have proportionately more time to spend with them each autumn; in addition, football fundamentals come more naturally to the few than to the many...
This January, the Rules Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association took a long step forward by Killing off two-platoon football. With the reinstitution of the limited substitution game, however, the resurrection of Spring football becomes essential...
...even today's players, nursed along as specialists and weaned on two-platoon play, have turned against the system. Speaking for the majority, Columbia's record-breaking Passer Mitch Price explained: "You get a psychological lift from playing both ways. You're in the game more, and if you're pushed around on offense, you get a chance to even up on defense." Added Dartmouth Coach Tuss McLaughry, who coached Brown's famed "Iron Man" eleven of 1926: "The basic philosophy of the two-platoon system has been all wrong. Now we can go back...