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VOL. VI. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA, S. C., NOVEMBER 23, 1912. Nod.8. CITADEL TEAM MET THANKSGIVING DAY Gamecocks and Bulldogs Will Clash on Davis Field. Annual Game With Cadets Promises to Be Interesting-VonKolnitz and Dunn Ineligible. The tables are turned this year and the Gamecocks meet the Citadel on Davis field, instead of in Charles ton, as formerly, for the closing game of the season Thanksgiving day. This annual affray with the cadets is second in point of interest only to the Clemson game and it is expected that more than a thousand fans will witness the contest. Alumni and supporters of the two teams will journey from all parts of the State, bedeck themselves in gay colors and shout themselves hoarse from the side-lines and stands. Down in Charleston interest in the game is at a high pitch, as is evidenced by the fact that the stu dent band and an entire company of cadets will make the trip with the team. A competitive drill will be held and the company which makes the highest score .will- come along with the Bulldogs. Citadel is Strong. Coach Edgerton, who watched the Citadel romp on the College of Charleston last S'aturday, is author ity for the *statement that the team which designates its pugnacity by the very suggestive emblem of the - bulldog may be relied on to unfold some thrills against the Gamecocks -equally pugnacious, by the way when the two football machines clash on Thursday. The Citadel back field is especially strong this season and will make a strong attack on the Carolina ramparts. Carolina's Line-up. Both vonKolnitz and Dunn are ineligible for the season's last game, since the meet will be played under the S. I. A. A. rules. Brann may be out of the game on account of a game pin, though in the remaining days before the meet the injured member may come around all. right. Big Mills is back and will inject his personality into the game from the tackle position. With *Branni out Avinger *will be used at the other tackle.-IHe and "Big John" are doing .very nicely, thank you, and should uncork something Thursday. Hill at Half. Young Luther Hill has been moved to Capt. vonKolnitz's half (Continued on Page Four.)Y MR. CHRISTIE BENET ADDRESSES Y. M. C A. Former Carolina Football Player and Coach Makes Address in Chapel Wednesday Evening. The weekly meeting of the Y. M. C. A. in the chapel Wednesday evening was addressed by Mr. Christie -Benet, an alumnus of the university. Mr. Benet has become since the day he entered here as a freshman a sort of Carolina institu tion whom every succeeding class has, come to know because of his constant and loyal support of his alma mater. In his college days the name of Christie Benet was known throughout the football circles of the South because of the record which he made here and at the University of Virginia. Mr. Benet deplored the tendency among college men of today to re gard themselves as unfortunately situated, because, as they think, the times offer no opportunity to men of genius. They are inclined to believe that all creative work is at an end and the world is now moving 'forward along lines which others have mapped out. Young lawyers, said the speaker, regard law as a perfected science with all of the great principles of the profession embodied in it. The same is true of those who enter the medical field. The young doctor is discouraged because he belies s that preceding generations have discovered all the great agencies for the saving of human life and the relieving of suf fering. Mr. Benet showed the fallacy of this reasoning by demonstrating that in every age there have been those who felt that perfection had been reached and all the world's secrets discovered. They have been the stumbling-blocks of progress. But others, said the speaker, have caught a vision of the future and pushed forward with the high pur pose ever in mind of attaining the goal. The young man of today has be fore him all the learning of all past ages. Modern means of travel and communication have wonderfully b)roadened the scope of his influence so that whatever of merit he may do or say will become known in the farthest corners of the earth. So, then, said Mr. Benet, every man of this century is under a much greater obligation to promote human wvel fare than were his forefathers in the earlier dlays of history. COLLEGE JOURNALISTS GATHER AT WINTHROP W. V. Hoffman, H. R. Crosland and J. B. Mitchell Compose Carolina Delegation-Others to Go. Winsome Winthrop is host, or rather hostess, to the annual con vention of the South Carolina Inter collegiate Press Association, begin ning December 5. H. R. Crosland, \V. V. Hoffman and J. B.. Mitchell compose the Carolina delegation. though Slats Latimer, M. A. Wright and S. I. Cohen will attend in an advisory capacity. They wvill not be admitted to the councils of the as sociation. The programme for the conven tion has not been announced but it is known that several addresses of unusual excellence by English schol ars of this and other States vill fea ture. Many papers will be read by members of the Association and the Winthrop lassies have arrangett a programme of social events which will occupy the most conspicuous place in the minds of the delegates. Broadus Mitchell will read a paper on "The History of College Journal ism in South Carolina." Prof. Moore at Spartanburg. The university was represented at the 18th annual meeting of the As sociation of Colleges and Prepara tory Schools of the Southern States. held at Spartanburg the. past week. by Prof. A. C. Moore. Wofford and Converse acted as hosts for the as sociation. One interesting fact about the convention is that, al thoug.h it met as a guest of two South Carolina institutions, it has no members in this State, the reason being that no South Carolina institu tion has high enough entrance re quirements. Many instructive ad dresses were heard during the two clays' session. An invitation to deliver an address in the chapel Tuesday evening was wired William Jennings Bryan by the student body through its presi dent Tuesday morning when it was discovered .that he would not reach the city until 6 o'clock in the after noon. The traini on which the Comn moner was to have come w~as delayed much longer than had been expected and he did not arrive here until i :50 WVednesday morning. The train did not stop and wvhatever prosp)ects might have existed for having him speak in chapel Wednesday wvere lost. GAME PORTER ELEVEN DEFEATED BY VARSITY Light Charleston Team Easy for Gamecocks. Cadets Fight Gamely But Are Over whelmed-Many Scrubs Work in Practice Game-Score 65-0. Although fighting heroically at every down and putting up as fine an exhibition of genuine grit as Davis field has ever seen, the Porter team, outweighed 20 pounds to the man, was swept off its feet by the 'varsity attack last Saturday. .The final score, 65 to o, looks rather large in print, but it gives no idea of the splendid showing of the prep aggregation against a team greatly superior in weight and con posed in large measure of seasoned players. The entire Carolina 'varsity took the field against the visiting team in the first and last quarters, the sct-ubs worked throughout the third frame and a combination of the two teams battled Porter in the second round. A view at the score by -quarters shows that the Carolina first string team is the one which did material damage to the. lads from Charles ton. In the first quarter 27 points were scored by the 'varsi-ty and in the final frame with the same bunch of old heads back on the job, 26 was the net result. These* wo quarters account for 53 points. A toich down without goal in each of the other rounds of play ran the final score of the afternoon -up to 65. Porter Stars. For the academy the work of Stroheker was of a high order, though he was prevented from showing his real strength by the handicap of insufficient interference on- the end runs and a striong line which shut off all gains in that quar ter. Pinckney also played a good game, especially on the defense when he made severa'l good tackles. Smith and Hawes on ends showed up well. Perry, Deere and Grissom in the line, while playing against much heavier opponents. not infre (uently broke through * and made lay~s go to seedl behlindl the first line of battle. In fact the entire cadet team fought with sp)lenid( dletermi nation, but they were playing against a team wvhich was a class higher than themselv'es: For a prepl aggregation -they showved unusual ability, their wvork being unmarred by the fumbling 'hich is supposed to feature Pore) school play.