T_E GAMECOCK
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF S. C.
Vol. I COLUMBIA, S. C., OCTOBER 27, 1908 No. 4
arolina
Just on the eve of the battle with our
greatest rival since the days of the annual
game with Clemson, it may be appropriate
to hastily review Carolina's gridiron rec
ords. Our team has met with varying
success In the last decade, but the time
is not far distant when she will be an Im
portant factor in Southern intercollegiate
football.
The team of 1898 was captained by J. C.
Foster and played only three games, win
ning but one. And so the results that it
s Footbal
accomplished were indeed very discourag
Ing.
In 1899 the team was again extremely
unsuccessful and won two out of five
games. William Shand had charge this
season.
The season of 1900 was the most suc
cessful up to this time. Not successful so
much in the number of games won as in
the interest shown by the student body.
T J. Bell was captain, and among the
names of the players' Is found that of
R. B. Herbert. Carolina Played Some offa
the sirongest teams In the South and won
four out of seven, defeating N. C. A. and
M. team in two games.
We regret to confess that the season of
History
'01 was greatly disappointing, in spite of
the high-built hopes. The team was vic
torious in three out of seven games, with
R. E. L. Freeman at the helm.
Nineteen two was the most successful
and satisfactory season in the history of
football at Carolina. "Old scores were
neatly obliterated when the wearers of
the Garnet and Black fairly and squarely
defeated Clemson, their old-time rival, in
one of the best and most exciting games
ever seen in this State. It was won by
pluck, grit, and steady determination, and
by the individual excellence of the play
ers." The score was 12 to 6 in this game,
and Carolina lost but one out of seven
hard games. Among the star players were:
McCutchen (captain), Smith, Oliver, Davis
and Gunter.
Carolina gradually forged to the front,
and in 1903 she was "recognized as a star
of first magnitude in the athletic firma
ment of the South." Carolina won seven
out of nine games, defeating Georgia
Tech. by the decisive score of 16 to 0. Guy
Gunter was her aeader.
The football record for 1904 was one to
be proud of, considering the number of
games, the hard schedule, and handicap
she was under in the injuries sustained by
her best men. "Gene" Oliver led the
team victorious in all but three games out
of eight. The strong Georgia team was
defeated 2 to 0, and Washington and Lee
University crushed.
The record for 1905 was great. Carolina
defeated her much vaunted rival, David
son, and held "Carpenter and his hired
crew" to a small score, when it is remem
bered that this team defeated some of
the strongest teams in the East, among
them West Point. Douglas McKay was
Carolina's plucky little captain.
- It gives us pain to chronicle the season
of 1906. There was one Ineradicable blot
on the field of athletic possibilities; the
absence of football. An all-wise and over
powering Board of Trustees decreed that
ping-pong and croquet were ietter suited
for the physical upbuilding of our stu
dents.
Football was reinstated on 'October 29,
1907, and before the end of the next week
an enthusiastic squad was at work. From
this was developed a fast though light
team, which won all the games that it
played in the short season remaining.
Perrin, the captain, was injured in the
opening game, and Gibbes, the clever lit
tle quarterback, was put In charge. He
starred as a drop-kicker, making twenty
out of the thirty points scored by his
team. One of his goals was kicked from
the 48-yard line.