Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY DY THE LITERARY SO CITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.. TERMS - $1.50 A SESSION, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Entered as second-class matter November 20, iO8, at the postoflice at Columbia, S. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. IHE GAMECOCK solicits humorous sketches, essays, verses, etc., -.nd will gladly pub lish such as is available, when accom panied by the full name of the author. Unsigned manuscripts will neither be acknowledged nor returned. All checks and money orders should be made payable to J. P. Evans, Business Manager. Editorial Rooms i.n Flinn Hall. Business Manager, J. P. EvANS,..................Clio, S. C. Assistant Business Manager, GEo. H. EDWARDS, JR...........Darlington BOARD OF EDITORS. Editor-in-Chief. BROADUS MITCHELL, '13 .......... Columbia Associatc, MARION A. WRIGIIT, '14........... .renton Sporting Editors, ALVA I. GREEN, '13.................Sumter J. H. ELKINS, '14...............Columbia Local Editors, LESTER LE\vIS, '13........Gallivant's Ferry J. A. KNIGHT, 'I2.................effersOn Law Editor, C. E. BLACK, '12.................Bamberg Student Body Editor, F. WILLIAM CAPPELMANN, '12...Charleston Columubia, S. C., November 1, 1911. The Game. Of course it is a cinch that what Carolina wants above all else is to win that Clemson game tomorrow. Everything else is subservient to this one purpose in the minds of team and student body and faculty and alumni and every Carolina sup porter. Win-win-win, and every thing else dwindles out of sight in the parade and the general hurrah in the Carolina atmosphere. The town will know a rousing that it has not seen since Sherman came through. . It is also a cinch that while we have some confidence of an excel lent chance at victory, still if we do not capture the laurels we want the next best thing. And this, as we see it, and as it has been stated in the student body meetings and at cheer ing practice time and time again, is to fight like only Gamecocks can fight to the very last ditch. Never say die, play like we were winning at every signal, like the field was being swept before us, like the grandstands were going wild with cheers for Carolina victorious. This spirit is that kind that commands admiration from every s)ectator of the game and reader of the news paper stories of the game, it is the kind that forces respect whether a man wvill or no0, wvhether lhe be Clem sonite, Georgian, Davidsonian, Floridian, or what not. The whole world will take off its hat to the bunch of meni that fight a losing game andl fight it like it wvas going for them inistead of their opplonients. If wve lose the game anid have played it in this spirit we will hav'e gainied the next best thing to victory. We (10 not niean by any of this that we entertain fears of losing, but somiebody has got to lose and( some body will want to (10 the next best thing to winininig. Root, You Tightwads, Root. There is now no further cheer.. ing practice before the most impor tant event of the entire scholastic year, whether social or athletic, is pulled off on the State fair grounds. 'Tis needless to name that event and folly to predict the outcome. Every Carolina man, however, knows that, regardless of the result, our team will be on the field fighting all the time with that deathless spirit for which all teams of this institution are famous. The team that meets Clemson on Thursday will, in every sense of the word, be representing Carolina, not alone to Clemson, but to the three thousand or more spectators in the stands. They are supposed to be the cream in an athletic way of our student body-they are missionaries to raise our standard on foreign soil. There is only one way we have of showing the team that we are with them: that is root, and root like it were the only purpose in life. The moral and spiritual impetus it gives to a team to hear their colleagues cheer them is not all. There is an active physical support that every man that has ever played football can tell about in a way that is con vincing. When things are going bad on the field, and there seems a healthy chance that victory lies on the other side, a rousing yell of support is a p'rop and a rock in a weary land, and a player is buoyed up and can go a hundred per cent. better for it. If things are going well, they go better and the best happens as a result. John Hoey has got the exact stuff for the position he is in, and will lead the rooting to do effective team work in a very real sense; and his spirit is that indomitable that if the student body lags he would do the thing by himself. Coaches. There is nothing for a team and nothing for a student body like the right coaches. The teams cannot get along without them, and the student body can be helped in their support of the team and in their interest in athletics by the right kind of men in charge. We have pre-eminently the right coaches-the right regulars and the right voluntaries. There is not a man on the campus today, nor has there ever been a man on the cam pus commanding more admi rat ion at the hands of the student body than does Coach John 11. Neff, Jr. Since his first residence on the campus he has p)roved the gentle man and the perfect and true friend of the students that wve can not but admnire. As coach he is the best in the league, of course. Christie Benet is one of the bcst friends Carolina and her football team has; he got the game back for us, and lie has in a real sense been the father of the sport at the University. His effiorts for the team are appreciatrd by the student body more than can be told. Doug McKay is another old star and fast friend. He has always helped with this big game, and effec tively. Guy Gunter was full when we beat the Tigers in the long ago, and his desire for victory is the same. Mr. Driver has put all the life in the world into his constant work with the s<pad-he has the knack of inaking,'things hustle and he has counted and will count not a little. These gentlemen that are old Carolinians represent to our minds about the best there is in an alumnus. They have gone in with the regular coaches and have shown themselves the same old Birds they were when fighting on the Carolina grid in muddy and torn uniforms. So Long. When we have heard of a person's having "conflicting emotions" we put the expression down as a plati tude without real meaning. But now when we come to quit the quill and take our feet from off the editor's desk, we know what it stands for. Since assuming the plural per sonality, since becoming the voice of the people, we have had expe riences that give risd to varying feel ings. We have abused the faculty for things they have done averse to our ideas, we have deplored the cus tom of Monday morning addresses that cut into the student body hour, we have landed square on the new absence regulations, and last of all we have tried, with disputed suc cess, to paint the campus red with a yellow issue of THE GAMECOCK. We have had our ups and downs. Of TIHE GAMECOCK, as of the county weekly, it may be said: "When it does you a favor you come in and beg a few extra copies, but when it steps on your toes you drop around to lick the editor." We remember the Wednesday nights that we ham mered our Underwood until nigh on to 2 o'clock, and sleepily beat it to the printer's before chapel. We have seen college life in its entirety. And from our experience of it all, of its pains and of its pleas ures, we are sure that while we now may know it not, these college days are our golden and best; they are that time that in after life in the big w~orld a man may long for and may seek, but never again may find. Not as editor, but no0w as a p)er son, I would like to thank my staff for their considerate treatment of me, andc for their work, especially J. P. Evans, wvho contributed largely of his own accordl, and F. William Cappelnmann, wvho, though a senior law and a Past editor himself of Newberry College pl))icat ions, has not triedl to do more than I would haive asked at the outsidle.-Broaduns Mitchell. For the new editor and his staff wer wish the most fortunate term of office. May they find the work as p)leasant as have we, and may they Men of Carolina We greet you and ask you to come and meet us. We are your nearest clothing shop. Always up to the minute. -:- -:. - :. .:. J. A. KNIGHT. Cmpu Agent BAILEY CLOTHING CO. 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