Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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AN ALL-CAROLINA TEAM (Continued from Page One.) to select from this galaxy of pigskin pushers an eleven which would be faster, heavier and at the same time combining both skill and strength, than the above. This team, in condition, would not only clean up anything in this part of the country, Vanderbilt not excepted, but would hold any eleven in the second rank of Northern intercollegiate football to a standstill. This aggregation would have aver aged not less than 170 pounds in form, and possibly i9o from tackle to tackle. A second team could be selected which would be little inferior to the first. Fendley, Freeman, Lumpkin, W. Cogburn, Ruehr in the line, and Jim Wyman, the two Wilds boys and Ben Wyman behind the line would be a strong nucleus. McCutcheon was a good tackle in his day, and Holmes, Gibbes, Withers and Bundy Davis, though light, were of the first water. -The State. CAROLINA AND THE CITADEL. Of the outcome of the 1908 Caro lina-Citadel game little can be pre dicted. The Citadel will go upon the field with ten of the men who played in last year's game at her disposal. Carolina, on the other hand, has lost heavily from her squad. Of the fif teen men who represented the Univer sity in Charleston in 1907, only five are still in uniform. With Crouch on the sick list, there are only four a)bout twei'tvy suibscfilbe is"ou'tsi~Ie~'Z)I iargan anu Iuraugn In Lne 1in0e, aiiu Belser and Cooper in the back field. Sligh, Wessinger, Cartwright, Gon zales, Reeves, Gibbes, Clarkson, Croft, Parrott and Graydon, nearly the entire team of last year, are no longer in the running, either having left the Uni versity or being disabled from injuries sustained during the present season. Of the present squad some of the strongest players will be disqualified by the rules of the Southern Intercol legiate Athletic Association. So that no conclusion can be drawn from the game of last Thanksgiving, and none with any certainty from comparison of the scores made by the two teams dur ing this season. Of the Citadel team little could be learned before going to press. It is true that with the exception of right end andI right half, the same team that played last year could line up against Carolina Thursday; but this gives no definite idea of the strength of the team. The Citadel has played but three games this year, but conclusions drawn from them are at best unreli able and ev'en inconsistent. Carolina won from the College of Charleston by a score of 17 to o. Later the Col lege of Charleston played the Citadel a olo' tie game. -This wvould seem to indhicate that Carolina has a stronger team than the Citadel. But twvo weeks afterwvardls, t'he Citadel defeatedl Charleston College 27 to o, scoring ten points more against them than Caro lina did. This second result 'plainly c.ontradicts the first. Howeve, the Char'leston team was weakened in juries to quarter and both halves in the second game--which may be made to account for the ten additional points at least. Georgia wvon from Carolina 29 to 6, and from Mercer i i to o. Mercer, then, seems to be stronger than Caro lina by twelve points.. Now, the Cit adel claims to have beaten Mercer Ii to 5, and it is true that on Tuesday, November 17, a team supposed to be representing Mercer University was defeated by the S.- C. M. A. in Charles ton. However, the Macon News came out next morning with a description of the game under this heading, "Mer cer Scrubs 5; Citadel Got ii." Man ager Workman, of the Citadel, ob tained a signed statement from the Mercer manager that the team which played in Charleston was composed of "members of the squad and repre sented Mercer University." This, of course, does not constitute them the first team, and the fact that not one of their names appears in the lineup of Mercer against Georgia Tech seems to support the statement of The News. So that it would seem that there is really nothing in the Citadel Mercer game 6n which to base a com parison of the two South Carolina teams. Except possibly this: Mercer Scrubs scored against the Citadel; Mercer 'Varsity could not score against Georgia; Carolina did score against Georgia. SCRUBS WILL PLAY (Continued from Page One.) son, and the stigma, of a scrub, only in name, we can not help but admire their work. The following will probably be hon ored with a trip to Sumter: Gresham, Who. with a year's more vxn erience, yet atta t such a markefi deere. will make a good man for the line. Wynne, who has had much training and has had the honor of playing on the 'Varsity in those games not played under S. I. A. A. rules. Carter, who played ball previously at Clemson, but is not eligible under the rules. McNair and Sharpton, the former a good end and the latter a steady line man. Izlar, who played some 'Varsity ball, and is at left halfback. Hart, Simpson, Sligh, Blake, Warren and Hanna, who will play better ball with a couple of years' training. THE STARS (Continued from Page One.) Dillingham-Right half back (6 feet tall). Jim Still ivan-Captain and quarter (5 feet tall). Coach, Moody; Umpire, Fickling; Referee, Furse; Waterboy, Peterkin. These are tall men, sun-crowned men, and the all-Carolina team had better lie low, for this bunch will ride 'em on a rail.. The above team is in strict training. Their diet consists of sawdust and Glenn Springs water. Watch the stars. * * * * * * "Fresh" Wright recently petitioned the Faculty to .be allowved to dirop chapel. The petition has niot yet been granted. * * * Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty (li-am; Fur Patrick Philips has departed, And things are not what they seem. Jim Sullivan-"Who's got a cork screw ?" THE SCRIBES Heretofore t9ic Scribes have been ornamental rqtler than useful. They organized late in the year, and only the names of tile honored few appeared on a page dedicated to. them in the Annual. Then the organization fell to pieces and the Scribes, as a factor in college life, disappeared. But this year the organization bids fair to be of great importance in the year's work at tile University. The band has al ready been organized, and for some time actual work has been going oil with a zeal that is a credit to the insti tution. At tile first meeting R. E. Gonzales was elected president; J. A. Marion, vice-president; A. D. Oliphant, secre tary and treasurer. The following members were en rolled: R. E. Gonzales, J. H. Brown, M. L. Marion, J. B. White, J. C. Sheppard, Jr., 0. D. Oliphant, Hutch inson and J. A. Marion. A constitution was drawn up and adopted, and from that time the work has been pushed forward. The Scribes meet every two weeks, and at every meeting each member is required to read some original pro duction, which is afterwards presented to the editor-in-chief of The Caro linian. The main purpose of this or ganization is to help out the various college publications, and especially The Carolinian. Heretofore the re sponsibility of getting out the college publications, and especially our maga zinc, has rested on not more than half a dozen men. And, sad to relate, oil more tian one occasloli'"7 smulkI man has been compelled, under va rious assumed names, to write more than half of the magazine. This does not speak very well for a student body of more than three hundred men. But in this, as in too many other things connected with this institution, an as tonishing lack of interest has been manifested. The Carolinian has often been delayed one week, two weeks, go ing to press, while the editor-in-chief had to scour the campus for articles which were not forthcoming, and at last, in desperation, lie has had to call upon tile professors to fill out the re quired number of pages or do it him self. The Scribes hope to improve the conditions that have too long existed, and are now putting forth their best efforts in the interest of the magazine. At each meeting the various produc tions are read and criticised, after wards they are rewritten and turned over to The Carolinian. This prac tically insures the greater amount of thre material every month. And the editor-in-chief wvill be relieved of hav ing to fill out his magazine withl "hot air" whlen lie 11as a student body be hind him capable of publishing a first class magazine. WVe should put out a magazine not surpassed by any in the South, and there is brain enough in the University of South Carolina to do it. Sidney Smith, one of the old star football men, was in the city Saturday. Soph. Trippet (speaking to Gray don)-"Say, Graydon, why are some people so putilonimus ?" * * * Fresh Ellis-"Mr. White, can your tell me what inning Bingham scorer1? LAST GAME OF THE SEASON (Continued from Page One.) so that the three games played in 1907 were won with a practically inexperi enced team. ' In the Carolina-Citadel game last year the old mass play style of foot ball was brought in opposition to the new open formation style of play. The Citadel had gone into training in Oc tober, coached by Ralph Foster. Of the teams which she had met in the early part of the season, the Charleston Athletics, the South Carolina Medical College; and the team of the Fort Moultrie garrison, all outweighed her considerably. They pounded the lighter Citadel line with heavy back and tackle rushes, neglecting almost entirely the forward pass and the on Side kick. Even the Charleston Col lege, with whom the Citadel played two games, though having a lighter team, placed their faith as much in the fierce line plunges of "Tiger" Hume at full, as in the open style of play. Thanksgiving Day found the Citadel trained well in the old style of foot ball, and presenting a defense prac tically impregnable to line bucks, but sadly ignorant of the resources and op portunities of the newer game. The lapse in Carolina's football experience had served to warn her to a large ex tent from the old style of play, and for this reason and because compelled to do so by the lightness of her squad, the new style of play was adopted wvide end runs, long forward passes, and the on-side kick being her chief weaponis of oen~ise. At first it seemed that the old method of attack would triumph. The Citadel's backs and tackles tore through Carolina's line for consistent gains, and a touchdown within the first five minutes of play seemed inevitable. But a stand was made, Carolina got possession of the ball, and after just three minutes of play Gibb6s sent a drop kick from the thirty-yard line, making the first score of the game. The other scores were merely repe titions of the first. It was the lum bering, out-of-date machine opposed to the swift, upto-date pattern, a Goliath dodging the rocks from the sling of a David. It would seem that the Citadel has profited from the lesson learned last year. In the Mercer game last Tues day, her first touchdown was made by a thirty-yard run from a forward pass, quarterback to end. However, the scc ond time a touchdown was made, the ball was carried over by the backs and the tackles. The Citadel has not abandoned the old style of play rather has she combined the twvo, p)ro dlucing a formidable offense. But it may also be said that Carolina had accomp)lished the same result last year, and this season has further per fected her system. Dr. Wauchope-" Mr. Waring, what part of the verb to be is is?" Fresh 'Waring (very fresh)--"Pro fessor, I thought it was all of it." * * * Fresh Littlejohn wants to know why they dlon't put "a bill of laden'' on the Mess H-all tables. Prof. C. L. Shealy, 'o8, spent Sat urday 'on the campus with friends.