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living by split-second timing, has in the new TV decade lost its
psychic and social relevance for our new way of life. The ball
game has been dislodged from the social centre and been
conveyed to the periphery of American life.
In contrast, American football is nonpositional, and any
or all of the players can switch to any role during play. It is,
therefore, a game that at the present is supplanting baseball in
general acceptance. It agrees very well with the new needs of
decentralized team play in the electric age. Offhand, it might be
supposed that the tight tribal unity of football would make it a
game that the Russians would cultivate. Their devotion to ice
hockey and soccer, two very individualist forms of game, would
seem little suited to the psychic needs of a collectivist society.
But Russia is still in the main an oral, tribal world that is
undergoing detribalization and just now discovering