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Harvard and Yale almost alone among Ivy teams did not platoon. "I'm glad now that we didn't," Yovicsin said. "I think we beat some teams that we might not have if we had platooned. We thought at the beginning of practice that we would platoon eventually, but that we didn't know our personnel well enough to start right away and tell 50 boys to play offense and 50 defense...
...Yovicsin recommended a return to free substitution in the annual report each head coach makes to the American Football Coaches Association. He also recommended returning the goal post to the goal line in order to encourage field-goal kicking...
...think they'll take some kind of step towards free substitution this year," Yovicsin said. "If they don't approve it altogether, they might stop the clock when the ball changes hands. If they do that, of course, free substitution is back. But I'm not even sure about that--they've been very unpredictable in the past...
...Yovicsin said that the early signing of college football players to professional contracts would be the chief topic when the Football Coaches Association meets in Chicago next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday...
...college administrators, the deans and athletics directors, are going to have to do something about this," Yovicsin said. "I don't like this business of signing contracts while you're still playing in college, and I don't like this business of rushing over to the sidelines after a bowl game and signing up, either. A boy can play pro football if he wants to, but he ought to keep these business deals separate from college athletics...