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Although professional football has uninterruptedly retained the two-platoon system since 1949, in 1953 the NCAA took the collegiate game back to the one-platoon system with new limited substitution rules, changes made ostensibly for financial and competitive reasons.
Free substitution or rolling substitution is a rule in some sports that allows players to enter and leave the game for other players many times during the course of a game, generally during a time-out or other break in live play; and for coaches to bring in and take out players an unlimited number of times.
The one-platoon system, also known as "iron man football", is a rule-driven substitution pattern in American football whereby the same players were expected to stay on the field for the entire game, playing both offense and defense as required. Players removed for a substitute were lost to their teams for the duration of the half (until 1932 ...
The NCAA football rules committee issued guidance Wednesday to close a loophole that allowed second-ranked Oregon to exploit an illegal substitution penalty late in its victory over Ohio State to ...
Oregon’s apparent ingenuity has led to an in-season rule change. The NCAA sent out a rules memo Wednesday outlining the new procedures for officials when a team commits a substitution foul ...
During his weekly radio appearance, Ohio State coach Ryan Day addressed the NCAA's rule change concerning illegal substitution late in games.
The substitution of absent players happened as early as the 1850s, for example from Eton College where the term emergencies is used. [5] Numerous references to players acting as a "substitute" occur in matches in the mid-1860s [ 6 ] where it is not indicated whether these were replacements of absent players or of players injured during the match.
The NCAA issued a rules interpretation that will allow offenses to reset clock if 12 or more defenders participate in a play late in a half.