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With the abolition of two-platoon football, the Ivy League's athletic problems will become more--not less--acute, since the League bans spring practice in football. That question is also expected to be discussed...
...Crimson, 19 to 10, after the first ten minutes. In the second quarter, the home team scored 14 straight points in one spurt and ran ahead, 45 to 20, at the half. After that Columbia Coach Lou Rossini substituted freely, using 18 men in a three-and-a-half platoon setup. The Crimson finally outscored Columbia, 18 to 17, in the fourth period...
...capture for many more, and rotation home for most of them. Rotation is a human necessity, but its effect on the army as a fighting force is nonetheless corrosive. A division commander figured recently that the majority of his combat soldiers had been in Korea for only five months. Platoon and company leaders seldom keep their units for longer than four months. For some reason, very few captains and first lieutenants experienced in company command are coming out on replacement, and there is a shortage of company leaders. Noncommissioned squad leaders are also hard to come by, and many squads...
Army policy requires that Puerto Ricans and KATOUSA be dispersed through squads and platoons alongside continental Americans, rather than placed in separate units. The results in enforced understanding and companionship are often good and warming. But the language difficulty is serious. The result at the front is that squad and platoon leaders must communicate with their men in an awkward mishmash of straight American, pidgin talk and sign language, with occasional help from the few interpreters at hand. All this forwards the brotherhood of man. But it can be tough on night patrol in the cold wastelands between the lines...
...fabulous completion percentage of .703. Two years later Baugh threw 354 passes, completed 210 of them for 2,938 yards, setting three alltime N.F.L. records in one season. As a quick-kicker, he had no peer; as a defensive player, in the days before the two-platoon system, Baugh once led the N.F.L. in interceptions. Almost since the day he entered the league, the big No. 33 on Baugh's back has been the biggest gate attraction in professional football...