Word: wilkinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like plotting a military campaign. I get a tremendous kick out of it." Like Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, the master coach, Blaik can be found at his desk as early as 8 a.m. and as late as mid night. Oklahoma's shrewd, hard-working Coach Bud Wilkinson, 34, begins his day at 7:30. He, too, exploits the organization of manpower, but with variations on the theme. For old time's sake, he uses versa tile Halfback George ("Junior") Thomas on both offense and defense, usually alternating the rest of his backfield whenever the ball changes...
...lines alternate about every five minutes no matter which team has the ball. Coach Wilkinson thinks it is good for morale to let everybody help to score the touchdowns. In the era of super-coaching, when defensive and offensive adjustments are made up to the instant the ball is snapped, a new type of football player is in demand. The first quality Wilkinson and other topflight coaches look for, even in linemen: ability to react quickly...
Errors Reports. This week, with the Big Seven title safely tucked away for an other year, Wilkinson & Co. have an old score to settle. They meet tough Santa Clara, the team that spoiled their other wise perfect season last year. Notre Dame's Leahy, after studying the films, will tell his players exactly how many errors they committed against North Carolina (by Leahy's count they committed 88 in beating Michigan State the week before), and pound them into readiness for Iowa...
...everybody got such a kick out of platoon football as Coaches Blaik, Leahy, Waldorf and Wilkinson. Complained some old-fashioned fans: the new game turned out more specialists, but was it really as much sport? Smaller schools, lagging in man and coaching-power, could hardly keep up the pace. As Pennsylvania's switch to the platoon system last week indicated, however, the new game looked tempting to the schools that could play it. It seemed to be around to stay...
Same Values. Few Southern papers indulge in the old "inflammatory treatment" of race stories, says Race in the News, but there are still a few lucifers: "[Newsmen] strongly suspect that the 1946 riot in Columbia, Tenn. and the 1949 lynching in Wilkinson County, Ga.* would never have happened had editors there showed either more courage or less prejudice...