Word: redshirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grade-point requirement for freshmen on athletic scholarships is 1.7-. 1 higher than the N.C.A.A.'s own. Big Ten schools are limited to a total of 30 foot ball scholarships for freshmen each year -as compared with 50 for the University of Texas. They also are forbidden to "redshirt" prospects-putting them on a five-year program, keeping them out of action as sophomores in order to beef them up. Redshirting is common practice in the Southeastern Conference, the Southwest Conference, the Pacific Eight, the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Midwest's Big Eight...
...Football. But Coach Duffy Daugherty of Michigan State, the only Big Ten school that was still undefeated last week (after downing Michigan, 20-7), insists that all his friends are amateurs. What's more, their civil rights are being violated by the academic requirements and anti-redshirt rules. Said Duffy: "You aren't forbidden to play in the band if you don't graduate in four years...
...simple, hearty young soldier, joyous at the prospect of a three-day leave home, and a lusty, waspish old baroness who is full of guile and as phony as her title. She is nicknamed La Garibaldina, because she used to be a camp follower in Italy's redshirt army of liberation in the 1860s, a career she has elaborated into her own self-nourishing legend that she was the schoolgirl who inspired Garibaldi's march on Rome. Phony or not. she sends the soldier whistling away into the morning sunshine surprised anew by the richness of life...