Word: two-platoon
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Princeton grid coach Dick Colman stirred up a controversy yesterday by suggesting Ivy League football teams return to the NCAA-banned two-platoon system...
Last fall, after Princeton scored in the last two minutes to defeat Harvard by one touchdown, Princeton coach Charley Caldwell walked into the post game press conference and astounded the assembled reporters. "Now if you want to watch some really good football," he said, "you'll go out there and pump for the return of spring practice and two-platoon football...
...proponents of two-platoons argue that it produced a better game and allowed many more boys to play, but close football is often a very fine substitute for professional football, particularly on the amateur level. Admittedly, there were many more boys who played under the old two-platoon rules, but perhaps the resultant specialist was not a football player in the complete sense of the word...
Even after two years of de-emphasis, football is still dangerously susceptible to the combined pressures of bigness and popularity. This year is no time to slacken requirements. Even if the NCAA in its forthcoming meeting returns to two-platoon football, the Ivy colleges, now entering the threshold of legitimacy, should limit substitution, just as they should limit practice sessions...
...plenty dissatisfied, with the way the struggle had been going. He had an answer, though. Two-platoon football. "You just can't expect a kid to be sharp on both offense and defense without it. Who the hell does old Jordan think he is kidding with all this mummsey wummsey stuff? He wants it just a badly as the next fellow...