Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the N.C.A.A. introduced the free substitution rule for football back in 1941, the theory was that more boys would be able to play, injuries would be reduced and smaller colleges would get a chance to make the best use of their football talent. In practice, things worked out just the opposite. More boys played, but they became the robot-like specialists of the two-platoon system; injuries increased because the players never got a chance to warm up again after riding the bench; and more than 50 colleges quit football because they had neither the money nor the manpower...
...three straight Davis Cup losses to Australia, last week liberalized its amateur code to conform with that of other nations. U.S. players, heretofore limited to eight weeks' subsidized barnstorming a year, may now compete in an unlimited number of tournaments, all expenses paid. Still under discussion: a rule, modeled on Australia's, which would permit U.S. amateurs to earn their own keep by working for such interested employers as sporting goods firms...
Reaction to the new substitution rule* was immediate, often indignant, but generally downright delighted. Surprisingly, some of football's big-time coaches, who have the money and manpower to benefit from the two-platoon game, were in favor of the change. Said Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson: "It's in the best interests of the game. The two-platoon system has a tendency to make big teams bigger and little teams weaker." Colorado Mines' Coach Fritz Brennecke saw other benefits: "It will reduce the pressure on recruiting and finances . . . Everyone will have to know how to block...
...Gist of the new rule: a player, once taken out of the game, may not return until the next period, except in the second and fourth quarters, when he may return for the final four minutes of play...
...There are] no grounds whatever to sustain a conviction for contempt . . . The judge was utterly without power to require or compel publication . . . without pay [of the proof] he requested them to publish . . . If a worthy judge may employ contempt-of-court process to silence unjust criticism . . . then this same rule would enable an unworthy judge to silence the press in just criticism...