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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 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.
Fritz Crisler was known as the "father of two-platoon football". In its earliest iteration, American football — like the sport of rugby whence it sprung — featured all players switching between offense and defense as required, in continuous action without leaving the field.
A major change in the governing rules of the sport was made ahead of the 1941 college football season. Instead of removed players being lost for the quarter, a new unlimited substitution rule was implemented, providing simply, "A player may be substituted for another at any time, but such player may not be withdrawn from, nor the outgoing ...
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Games played (GP) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated (in any capacity); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.
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In baseball, the double switch is a type of player substitution, usually performed by a team while playing defense. The double switch is typically used to make a pitching substitution, while simultaneously placing the incoming pitcher in a more favorable spot in the batting order than was occupied by the outgoing pitcher.