Word: teamer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn senior Eric Waters led off the first team selections at 118 lbs. followed by the only freshman first teamer. Jerry Reid of Columbia Penn picked up another lightweight first team selection at 134 lbs. with Jeff Thorne, also a senior...
...book Football My Way, discusses how many coaches would handle such a situation: "Alabama's Bear Bryant and Jim Owens of the University of Washington are of the hard-nosed school. They use what they call the 'challenge' system to stimulate competition. At Washington, for instance, if a second-teamer thinks he is better than the player ranked ahead of him by the coaches, he can challenge him to a contest. Usually it is brutal, sometimes bloody, one-on-one block and tackle combat. If the challenger beats his man, he gets the first-team job." This...