Word: platooning
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Basketball's breakneck pace puts wind and stamina to a sterner test than even modern football does. That is the reason why basketball coaches here & there have experimented with platoon substitutions for years. This season a few schools have been polishing the platoon system into a fine art. Exhibit A is Holy Cross, undefeated in 14 games and, on mid-season form, the top team in the college game...
Showman, Cousy would be up to his tricks again next week, as the ringleader of Platoon 1, when Coach Sheary's boys launch the second half of their season. With the toughest half behind them, including wins over N.Y.U., Bowling Green and St. Louis, Holy Cross's talented platoons were aiming at a goal that few big-time basketball squads ever reach - going undefeated...
...next day Private Douglas was in a boot platoon. He refused to accept a commission until he found he was too old for overseas service without one. Then he pinned on a set of captain's bars and joined the I Marine Amphibious Corps at Noumea...
...another as a volunteer rifleman in an infantry platoon, assaulting the Naha-Shuri line on Okinawa. The platoon was advancing into heavy machine-gun fire and sniper fire when one burst stitched down his left arm from elbow to wrist and severed the main nerve. One month later he was admitted to the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md. for a 13-month stay...
Ranger Coach Lynn Patrick had found a way to jam Detroit's high-velocity forward line of Lindsay, Gordon Howe and Abel by borrowing from platoon football. He simply used his own second line as a defensive unit whose chief function was not to score but to keep the Wings from scoring. When Detroit's main-line trio of Lindsay, Howe and Abel skated onto the ice, so did Patrick's nuisance line. When Lindsay & Co. were called off the ice to rest between sallies, so were their Ranger shadows. Then Coach Patrick inserted the line that...