BIGGER THAN EVER

Football, always a great sight of the U.S. autumn scene, was showing the fans some dazzling spectacles. Reason: brilliant October weather and fresh winds blowing from the rule book. The return to the one-platoon system swept the boring scramble of unlimited substitutions from the fields: games were easier to follow and shorter, players more versatile. Fans flocked to the stadiums to hear the bands and cheer the helmeted heroes, crowded even breather games in hopes of an upset. Two of the most bruising battles so far saw Big Ten Champion Wisconsin losing to U.C.L.A., 13-0, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Big Seven Champion Oklahoma slip past Texas, 19-14, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl.

These games were recorded by Photographer George Strock in a way that had never been tried before.

To catch the whole football spectacle, Photographer Strock dug up a pair of half-forgotten cameras that were popular in grandfather's time: a boxlike "panoramic camera" with a swiveling lens, and a "circuit camera" turned full circle by a small, spring-driven motor. Years ago itinerant cameramen used these wooden "buzz-boxes,'' turning out four-foot films of school graduations and political clambakes. Today Photographer Strock finds new use for the oldtime cameras by fitting them with modern color film, to capture the charging players and the roaring crowds in a single sweep.

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