I’ve been spotlighting some great players from the past recently like receiver Hal Bedsole (above) because it often seems like these players are forgotten despite their contributions. But here’s another reason: When many of these guys played, the rules required you to play both offense and defense. And there was one substitution per quarter. Rosters could be 40-50 players.
Compare that to last season when everyone was amazed USC managed with 70 scholarship players and only 2-3 substitutions on defense. It was a different era but one that deserves to be appreciated.
Toward the end of last season, we only fielded 45 healthy players……..
Hal Bledsole a great one.
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I do in fact. I wish I could read one of yours! 🙂
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What do you think Chucker Bucker? Do you like it too, my friend?
The ridicule strokes his ego….nice try!
In high school Bedsole was a quarterback who would literally run over the smaller defensive backs. It was not even fair.
Notice how much darker the Cardinal jersey was in those days.
Ugly Bucket– We just love how you show off your SUCLA “class”
Having experienced one platoon and two platoon football I can tell you it changes who one recruits,they have to be able to play the whole game and substituting was extremely limited;avg line weights were very low 200’s,few were mid 200’s;backs mostly under 200,incl linebackers…it was still great football.
The problem is not that we had a reduced roster, the problem is we had a reduced roster while our opponents had full rosters. I would put our 50 against their 50 any day of the week.