Word: two-platoon
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With the abolition of two-platoon football, the Ivy League's athletic problems will become more--not less--acute, since the League bans spring practice in football. That question is also expected to be discussed...
...recent years, every time the pass master cocked his arm to throw a football he set a record. In 1945 he had a fabulous completion percentage of .703. Two years later Baugh threw 354 passes, completed 210 of them for 2,938 yards, setting three alltime N.F.L. records in one season. As a quick-kicker, he had no peer; as a defensive player, in the days before the two-platoon system, Baugh once led the N.F.L. in interceptions. Almost since the day he entered the league, the big No. 33 on Baugh's back has been the biggest gate...
...make it 10-0), 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...
...presidential campaign had only three weeks left to run, but the Republicans still didn't hate Adlai Stevenson and the Democrats still didn't hate Ike. In 1952, the two-platoon system had come to politics too. Each party had not only picked a candidate but had provided its foes with a living, breathing, campaigning villain. Last week the G.O.P. was so sore at Truman and the Democrats so incensed at Bob Taft that both Ike and Adlai were still good guys to millions on both sides of the political fence...
Lahar is not an exponent of the two-platoon system. Captain Main often goes both ways. Simmons, leading offensive halfback, is described in a Colgate press dispatch as one of "the top defensive backs in the East." Although some of his lighter linemen would give way to replacements, Lahar would very likely use a tackle like Tomanek, 220-pound sophomore, for the better part of a game...