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Show Platoon Age Ends Football next fall is going to take on a different look; all because the National Collegiate Athletic Association Associ-ation killed the two-p!atoon (free-substitution) (free-substitution) which in turn killed football in some 50 small colleges. The new regulation will bring back the era of the all-around "iron-man" "iron-man" offensive and defensive performer per-former . . Ed Price has been given m new five-year contract' as head football coach at the University Univer-sity of Texas, the southwest Conference Con-ference champions of 1852 . . . Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly, the world's best woman tennis player, was named "athlete of the year" for 1952, the . second successive time . . . Leroy (Satohel) Paige signed bis 1953 contract with the Browns for a reported $20,000. Paige Is probably the oldest player in big-league baseball, no one knows for sure but be Is somewhere between be-tween 45 and 5. |