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...famous Army types are present, and all of them are beautiful played. The overworked and woman-ridden First Sergeant wants, desperately to get away from his morning reports and into combat. A baboon-like, whistle-blowing platoon sergeant wants to know the purpose of overnight passes, because "any fool knows it takes more than a coupla hours to make any decent broad." The company commander suffers terribly because his wife, who plays bridge with the adjutant's wife, always knows what is going to happen before he does. The eternal yardbird, the eager second lieutenant, the PX floozie...
Selectors gave special consideration to men who played both offense and defense (an increasing rarity under the two-platoon system). This favored all-around players like Notre Dame's Lineman Leon Hart, and made it tough on headline heroes like Army's Stephenson and Stuart, who rode the bench when the other team had the ball...
...Medal of Honor awards for World War II. The recipients were Staff Sergeant John W. Minick, of Carnegie, Pa., who crawled through a Hurtgen Forest minefield', tackled an entire German company and killed 20 before he fell; and Staff Sergeant Gus Kefurt, of Greenville, Pa., who led his platoon in a hand-to-hand encounter in France, killed 25 Germans before he was cut down by enemy fire. Minick's and Kefurt's Medals of Honor were presented to their widows...
...people who sat in on Indiana's rout didn't seem to think so. Michigan, using one squad for offense and another for defense, made 300 line-up changes during the game. The unlimited substitution rule made it all legal. At West Point, where the two-platoon system is well established, the offense and defense units practice on different fields, learn different sets of signals. Nobody denies that it is the most efficient way of running a football squad. What a rebellious contingent of coaches wanted to know was: where do the little schools with no reserves...
Under Blaik's new two-platoon system, Cain & Stephenson operate only on offense. They trot out on the field when the Cadets have the ball, trot off when the enemy...