Word: platoons
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...week's big game matched two of the undefeated: Georgia Tech, the nation's top defensive team, and Duke, Southern Conference leader. Tech's Rambling Wrecks were a one-point favorite at kickoff time, and from the opening whistle their famed lightweight (191 lbs. average) defense platoon set about the business of smothering Duke's star passer, Worth ("a million") Lutz. Tech Tackle Bob Sherman twice broke through the heavier (by 15 lbs.) Duke line to block punts and break up touchdowns. Georgia Tech ended up on the long end of a 28-7 score...
...emphasis has now shifted. The Tigers are pointing to their defensive platoon and are calling that the key to victory...
...offensive platoon, Caldwell still has most of last year's big line, but he has had to rebuild the backfield completely. Along with Kazmaier, Dick Pivirotto, George Stevens, and Russ McNeil were lost at graduation...
Caldwell has a good, experienced line, a defensive platoon that has been rather stingy with yardage, and an entirely new backfield that has raised Princeton to the first place in Ivy offense, garnering 196 points
...Tailback Sears showed that he had other talents. Twice, on passes of 34 and 40 yards to End Tom Nickoloff, Sears drove the unheralded Trojan offense down inside California's lo-yard line, controlling the ball and keeping the pressure on. And in this two-platoon age of specialists, the senior physical education major, 21, did double duty as a defensive back. He was Jimmy-on-the-spot as a secondary defender when a last-ditch tackle was needed or a pass had to be knocked down...