Word: two-platoon
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...proud Cleveland runner would have withheld from Pittsburgh's Franco Harris. "Payton is a gladiator," he said. "Walter follows the code." Brown was a better runner; so was Sayers. But for running, blocking, throwing passes and catching them, Payton is all-around the most productive football player of the two-platoon era. "For most of his career, teams have been able to key on him alone," notes Defensive Tackle John Dutton of the Dallas Cowboys, "and still no one has stopped him." Matt Suhey, Payton's current backfield mate, figures that "the best ground-gaining combination of all time...
...touch football, Lowell uses a two-platoon system, freely alternating offensive and defensive teams. Most of the players participated on last year's team, and the experience showed in the 19-15 victory over Eliot House last week which insured their second straight touch football championship...
Ignacio, the only defensive back ever to captain the Harvard squad in the two-platoon era, was the statistical leader among defensemen this fall with 71 tickles and five interceptions. Ignacio was also cited for making the key defensive play in several games...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Footbal Association voted Wednesday, 19-13, to recommend that the NCAA eliminate two-platoon football and go back to the old system of limited substitution, with nearly all players going both ways...
...said the high cost of two-platoon football was the reason the measure got broad backing. Teams are now forced to carry and equip more players than they would with limited substitution, he said...