The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 30, 1912, Page 3, Image 3
MANY HIGH SCHOOL FOO
HAVE I
Darlington Has Sent Full (
Varsity. Porter and
Have Contribi
Some of the greatest finds and
accessions to the team in the past
two years have come from high
schools. Darlington alone has sent
Hill, Langston, Sligh, Perkins and
Bristow. Avinger, a reliable line
man, -came from Porter M'ilitary
academy, and Dan Heyward got
his football education at the Episco
pal High school of Virginia.
Luther Hill 'played left end on
the Darlington team for t wo years,
making a name for himself by star
ring in almost every game. No
one paid much attention to him.
C-' however, for the first few weeks
last season till one day he was put
in the game to relieve "3rother"
\Voodrow. A man got loose, seem
ingly for a touchdown. and that
gave him the only thing he wanted
--a chance. He got his man and
stayed in the game to the last
whistle. Before the end of the sea
son he was regularly on the job
in every game, and the left wing
was one of the strongest points of
the team. This season in every
game, though outweighed several
pounds, Hill has shown up well and
has always been right there with
the goods.
Langston's work in the back field
also shows up well for his home
training. He came up last year with
two years' experience with the
pigskin, and from the start had a
place on the varsity squad. When
he was knocked out after only a few
minutes of play in the Clemson
game every man on the side lines
felt that the team had suffered a
heavy loss. "Bub's" playing is not
often spectacular or sensational,
but is always steady and does the
work. One of the coaches was
heard to remark after a game this
season "that Bubber Langston (lid
do some running."
Sligh also started out last year
with some experience, but met with
no marked success till this season.
He has held down right end from
WILL COACH EDGERTON
RETURN NEXT YEAR?
(Continued from Page One.)
limelight. The first y'ear a fter
gradluation lhe b)ecamie coach for
D)avidson ando wvorked with the
squladl for two years, turning out
one of the best teams which the
P reshvterians have had in some
years. T[he next y'ear he took up)
the task of training the College of
Charleston, wvhile in that city at
tendhing the Medical College, and
g-ave the Maroon andl White a most
TBALL MEN
ANDED JOBS ON VARSITY
)uota of Players for Carolina
Episcopal High School
ited One Each.
the very jump, and has shown that
what it takes to be on the job all
the time "he's got it."
Perkins showed up strong last
year in the back field. He played
in some of the most important
games on the schedule and made
most of the trips.
Bristow, tipping the scales at the
128 mark, is the lightest man on
the team, but is also the fastest.
Speed is his greatest asset. and if lie
ever gets loose there are mighty
few in the game who can run him
down. ie vent into the Clemson
game for only one down, but in that
one play he gained fifteen yards.
H is running is brilliant and his
headwork good. All in all he is
one of the most promising pieces of
material on the field this year.
Avinger hails originally from
Orangeburg, but came here with
several years' experience at P. IM.
A., wvhere last y'ear he was cap)tain.
"l3oodie" is a good example of the
kind of stuff they send out down
there, and has shown up well in ev
ery game he has played here. Like
all line men, his ciances to star
have been few, but his work is al
ways sure and reliable.
Dan Heyward is from Winns
horo, and though this is his first
year of college ball, already shows
the qualities of an "old head." His
work in the back field during the
whole season has been brilliant. He
has more pep and ginger than any
other man in the squad, and is
always ready to get into the play
on every down. He is fast and
runs through a broken field well. A
Clemson player said, just after the
big game. "That fellow Heyward
can squirm through a line where
there isn't space enough to see
through." That is just how it looks
to everybody. On the whole, Dan
is the most promising new man on
the team, and will make one of the
best players Carolina has lately pro
duced.
aggressive machine. TIhis fall he
pickced out Davis field as the scene
of his activities and( his wvork with
the Gamnecocks speaks for itself.
HeI has already dleparted for the
Medical College to resume his
studies there, sp)ecializing in hosp)i
tal workc. IBut it is earnestly hoped
by every follower of the Garnet and
Blackc that lie will accept the posi
tion of coach for next year's var
sity. The Athletic association will
not let hiimi go without an argument,
and1( his departure would be re
garded as an event nothing short of
a calamity
SCRUB AGGREGATION
PLAYED GOOD BALL
Second String Team Whipped
Varsity Into Fighting Form.
Good Material Among the Gamecock
lets That Gives Promise of
Future Development.
Though playing "second fiddle''
to the varsity and gracefully yield
ing the center of the stage and
most of the limelight to the first
string men, the scrub team, that
happy medium between the big
warriors and the squirts, has shown
that as a football lighting machine
it is no slouch itself and all the
season has been a worthy second to
the No. i Gamecock eleven. Every
man on it has been an able under
study to his opponent on the Varsity
and has developed that individual
into the highest efficiency as a foot
ball player, which, after all, is the
function of the scrub.
Some men on the scrubs have
just shaved being varsity stars and
it is not at all improbable that next
year's team will have many men
who have gone up higher from the
second string hunch of 1912. Sev
eral of its members have been
shoved into some of the season's
games and there acquitted them
selves nobly and reflected great
honor on the modest aggregation
which they represented.
Star Scrubs.
Boulvare started the season as a
scrub, but the fierceness of his play
out on Davis field every afternoon
could not fail to attract the atten
tion of the coaches with the result
that Boulware was promoted. He
has been used as full back in sever
al games and turned the trick suc
cessfully each time.
Bristow, a freshman from the
DarlingtonI High school, played
half on the scrub aggregation in
the early scrimmages of the season.
He is the lightest man on the squad,
having to stand on the scales two
or three times before the beam will
rise, but a swiftness of foot brought
him the call to higher company and
lie p)ackedl his dluds and moved out.
There wvas no return, he had gone
forever.
Even Bill H-arth begani the sea
sont on the second string team, but
a head that showed football brains
wvhere sawdust is found in the aver
age p)erson,. marked him as one of
the comning generals of the year. A
chariot of fire swvooped down and
Bill had joined the hand of Immior
tals.
Second String Graduates.
There are others on this band of
Gamecocklets wvhose work has
marked them as stars of the future.
Owen, at tackle, showed up wecll all
the season and wvith another year
at college would develop into a full
fledged varsity player. But his
graduation in June threatens to end
his career on the gridiron, unless he
should return and study law. Mc
l'eer, at the other tackle, like Owen,
waited until his senior year to dis
cover the fact that he can really
play football, and the discovery will
be of no value to the team, for Mac
will start tackling life off the grid
next June. Jimmie Allan runs a
team very well as quarter, but with
beginning ()f next summer he will
run down clients instead of punts,
hence his development is cut short.
But there are others in the prep
varsity department who give prom
ise of showing good enough forn;
next fall a fter a year's seasoning
to be used in some of the varsity
games.
I alorc-de at center had a splendid
season on the scrubs and was used
for a few- minutes in the College
f Charleston game, acquitting him
self well. He will put up a strong
hid for a job on the first string team
next year. Kollock, end: Dudley
and Mel eod, guards: Perkins.
Shtller and Dick, backs, will make
somebody hustle to stay on the
prime eleven of 1913.
\ll the mien mentioned above
tilled places on the scrub team which
met Porter Military academy in
Charleston November 9, winning
from the prep school boys by the
score of 32 to 7. The following
Saturdlay they relieved the varsity
in one quarter of the game with
the same team played on Davis
field. During this time they suc
ceeded in shoving across one touch
down, so that their record for the
season is 38 points won and 7 lost.
Wade I Hoffman, ex-elitor of Tiii r
GAM(EcocK and a young mar.
thought to be quite literary in his
tastes and aspiratiois, startled those
of his friends who held to this view
regarding him by working in a pre
liminary wrestling match at the
theatre Tuesday night just before
the Turner- Poulios bout. Nor did
lie give a had account of himself or.
the mat, for while lie did not throw
his opponent in the allotted fifteen
minutes. he managed to keep his
own shoulders off the canvas. the
fray eniding in a drawv. 1-is studenm
friends in the roost yelled loudly for
him at all stages of the gamie, but,
somehow, there just wvasn't any pin
ning his elusive antagonist.
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