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TERRIERS! CLE SOGER University of South Carolina VOL. XV.- COLUMBIA, S. C., OCTOBER 20, 1922. NJM1 Freshmen Take From the I Captain Boatwright Leads Drive to Victory Tomorrow the University of South Carolina's freshman football team plays its first road game of the year when Coach Brockington takes his charges on an invasion of the lair of the Tiger. The big event of the football year at Carolina and Clemson is the Fair Week contest between these two schools, and now that the freshmen have begun play ing regularly every year there is no doubt that the interest in the varsity contest will be the cause of almost as intense interest in the game of the first year men as well. Quite a number of Caro lina supporters are expected to be on hand for the game Saturday in the land of the Hillmen and it is hoped that every Carolina student who can possibly be on hand will see the game. It is rather difficult to get a line on the two teams from comparitive scores but the Clemson team seems to be a strong aggregation in spite of its defeat at the hands of the Georgia Freshmen last week. The young tigers lost but they put up a fine scrap and it's no dis grace to lose to Georgia, anyway. If you don't believe this just ask Furman, she knows. The Jungaleers' outfit is composed of high school stars who have already made names for themselves on the gridiron and they expect to win from the Gamecocks by a goodly margin. But expectations don't cost a cent in this neck of the woods and we hope that the Tiger enjoys his expectations to the fullest, for we are inclined to believe that the pleasure he gets from this par ticular game won't extend nmch further. And anyone who has seen those Caro lina freshmen in action will know just exactly what I mean. We've got a real team representing that freshman class and Carolina and we don't care who knows it. We started with more power in the line than in the backfield but that has been evened up now, and it is a liberal education in the gentle art of football to see those backs shoot around the ends like they were just out of the mouth of a cannon-and can they plow through a line? Well if you won't take my word for it just put inl a long distance call for Newberry and you will find some fifteen or tw-enty very sore, downcast freshmen who will bear witness, ad intinitum, to the prow ess of one Jaskewicz, of one Holcombe,, of one JelTords and of one Boatwright. These four alone are enough to play havoc with any line, but there are plenty of others to run in when the coach needs to mutter a word in the ear of any one of the standby's. Forinstance, it looked like old times to see Jack Wright out there knocking 'em six (different ways at one time-and always ready for more punishment. Jack is the boy who is going to show the wvay on the basket ball floor this winter, but it seem is that he has decided to make a name for himself in a number of different wvays this year, and is getting off to a fast start on the gridliron. Tlhe backfield is good but that fresh man line wvill play with and varsity line in the state right now. Itartelle, Long, Alex Murdaugh and Joe lillard are four men whom wve wvould like to see playing wvith the varsity sqIuadl this year -and they aren't the only good men we've got, not by a long shot. Why. outsidle of the regular lineup, there are a string of subs thirty feet long on those benches next to the bleachers that are (CONTINUJED ON PAGE 6.) TERRI Goed Games ndian Yearlings B. D. G's Well Organized For Year-2d Meeting Tonight On Friday night, October 6, the Caro lina Bible Discussion Groupes were or ganized at their first regular meeting. There had been a preliminary meeting the week before to iron out a few of the wrinkles, and everything started with a rush last Friday. Fifteen classes were organized with an enrollment of be tween 10 and 20 per class. On last Friday evening, October 13, the second meeting of the series was held and was a great success. One hun dred and sixty boys were enrolled as against 140 at this time last year. The largest individual attendance was 22 in the class of Tenements 3 and 5, Alex Wait's group. The largest score of any one class was made by Olin Johnston's with a total of one hundred and three points to its credit. "0. D.'s" class had three visitors and this put them in the lead for the first week. The "Y" is offering a banquet to each of the men who do not miss a class of the series of ten that will be given. Al so every man of the winning class, re gardless of perfect attendance, will be invited to the banquet. These banquets of the "Y" are things to be remembered and every man in school will have the chance to partake of one if lie will get in a class and stay put for the series. Men on the football team will of course have their absences excused when they are away from home playing a game. The "Y" has adopted a new system of scoring this year, using a per centage basis entirely. However in order to in duce the leaders to work for a larger class, 25 points will be given for each new meniber added to the class. The points for each class will be posted on the bulletin board at Flinn Hall. Each class will start with the hundred points made last Friday night except those who had some visitors. The "Y" is anxious to run the attendance up to over 200 and things look good from now on for that goal. The second meeting of the series will be tonight and it is to be hoped that any Ime who have not already lined up with some group will (o so iimediately so that they can get into the swing of the course from the very first. There is more enthusiastn over the Bible Dis cussion Groups this year than there has ever been. The boys on the campus are enrolling more generally that ever before aind for the first time there are quite a number of students enrolled who (o ntot live on the campus. Mr. Bell asks that it be announced that there will be NO M BhETING FAIR WEEK because of the large number of boys who will be at htotme. It is impiossibile to putt too mutch em phasis on the thing that thte Y. M. C. A. is trying to do on the campus. It is the strongest religious influence at Carolina andl we must look to it itn large -mieasure to overcotme the antagomiism to the p)eo p)le of thte state in general to Carolina because of alleged lack of religious en vironment ando influence. The Bible Discussion Groups besides being of great value to thte individual studentt on the campus will be of p)erhtaps evett more value in placing Carolina in the right lightt before thme state attd the legisla ture-and everything that (hoes such a thing in these (lays and times is of in estimnable. benefit to our University. S. IERS vs. New Alma Mater Song Dr. Wauchope Writes An other Fine Poem. Once more the pen of Dr. George Armstrong Wauchope has made a no table contribution to the already splen did group of Carolina songs. Dr. Wauchope has had the leisure to do a number of things this summer as you may see by the article we take fromthe State on his address of some (lays ago. This song as a fine literary production will of course appear in the Carolinian, but it is printe(d in the Gamecock in the hope that each student will clip it out and paste it in his handbook along with the other Carolina songs that have conic down to us from past years.. Carolipra Coroita. (Tune: "Drink to me only with thine Eyes.") Fair shrine where dreaming Muses dwell, Acclaimed by all thy peers, Our Alma Mata, rich in lore, We share thy hopes and fears; To blazon far such fame thy star Of destiny appears, And laureled sons and daughters rise To crown thy hundred years! Thine ivied walls nature and art With every grace endow, And velvet lawns wide--terraced sleep Beneath each arching hough; To see what priceless stores of truth The fruitful years allow, And loyal sons and daughters come To crown thy radiant brow! G. A. W. Dr. Wauchope will ever be dear to Carolina men as the author of our most popular college song, "We hail thee, Carolina," but we predict that in this. his latest prothuctiot, we have a song which will rival the earlier work both in beauty as a poem, and in the general esteem of Carolina men as being a song that embodies tle Carolina traditions and the i(leals that have been sacred to this campus for more than a century. It is diiicult to over-estimate the good influence that a really got)d college song may have over the students and the gen eral spirit of the college life. It em bodies something more than the vild enthusiasm of the football yell, some thing more than the humility of a con certed prayer. The swelling harmony of a college song is the very essence of the spirit of that college. It is sone thing deep and compelling. It has in it a note of gran(leur, for it represents the hearts and)l souls of the individual mien an( women blending into the heart and soul of the school, with all that it stands for. In the stirring notes of our Alma Mater we can trace the proud spirit of the Carolina athlete, the noble perio(s of the Carolina orator, the ster ling character of the true Carolina man. I t is the prodluct of all that is highest and best in p)rinciples and idleals of the University of South Carolina. The University of So'uth Carolina and all interested in her wvel fare owe a dlebt of (deepest gratitude to D)r. WVauchope for this splendid contribution to our rich' array of college songs-it is sonme thing that is wvell worth wvhile: a great thing for Carolina. S. - 0oo Co-Ed Glee Club to Be Formed. Certain vange intangible rumors of a Co-ed Glee Club have at last crys tallized. The club is to meet each Wed nesdlay afternoon (starting this wveek) at 4 :15 in the afternoon. l'very C'o-ed is urgedl to come out and help "fill the air with sound." M. C. F. GAMECC Tarheels Win Ii Mini Wofford Here this Afternoon Good Game Expected After a glorious fight against North Carolina last Saturday the Gamecocks are at home again and this afternoon will entertain the Terriers in their own back lot. Of course we are expecting a victory over the Methodists but they are always prepared to spring the un expected and invariably put up a hard scrap. Their record of the season is a fairly good one, though not so impres.. sive as that of the Garnet and Black. In their first game they trounced the North Georgia Aggies to the tune of 20 to 0. In their second start they were not so fortunate, losing to the strong team from Camp Benning by a couple of touchdowns. Last ,wtek, howver, they, staged a comeback, winning from the scrappy little Seceder team from Due Vest by the score of 5 to 0. The newspaper reports of these games credit the Terriers with a hard-fighting line and fast, snappy backfield-and these are the two things that go to make up a football team. Metzger's men are not in the best of condition owing to the terrific struggle against North Carolina last Saturday. but the lineup that will start is a power ful aggregation that will make the Meth odists scrap for all they are worth and as Chap said at Chapel Hill when the Tarcels looked threatning, "Nobody ev er scores through the Carolina line on straight football." This is gospel if anything ever was and if Vofford ex pects to avoid a whitewash they will have to uncork soiething out of the ordinary line in football. Captain Alex Waite. back at his ol position in the iine, played the game of his life against North Carolina and his work won mitch favorable VoIlIicment froin the sports wri ters of that section. Alex is fully jus tifyiig tle conlidence placed inl hin by his teannuates in electing him to tle c iptainlcy of the eleven and is a leader who carries tle teaml) over the hard places by dint of his exaliple and en cOtIragement. Anid inl the line with him Joc \\'lieeler is showing why lie \wis given a place on the 1921 \-II-State team. Joe is even better than last year, though we wouldn't believe it pos sible if we hadn't seen hii inl action. That pair of old warliorses who hold down the guard positions so Well. "Jonlinly Nack" and H 'arry ,ightsey, need no conuent. Their play is all that can be expected from even such old stagers as thiemselves and little ground is gaiied in their respective territory. Alex and Shag Siliionls are a pair of tackles who inake the opposing backlield shiver whenever they look over what lies bietween thieim and anyv kind oif a gainl-and( it is seldom that a man is able to (10 more thani LOOK past these two tackles. Oni the ends Franikie MIev er and( Fant Kelly have pierhiaps shown moure stuff than aiiy of the oithers who have b.een used on the wings. They arme fast andu s.ure on bothI otfen se anmd defense, deadly tacklers andl heady players at all times. A whale of a l ine -we say!! In the back feld we have had little ditTicult ies dlue to injuries and the ne cessity for more shi ftinig than has bieen good for the team, butt we can now l cust oif a goodly supp~ly of backs, each of whom may lie cunitedl upon to (d0 his share ini carryinig the ball dlowni the field. And what is perhlaps even more impiort ant: our inter ference has been improv (CONTINUED) ON PAGE 6.) )CKS TO] i the First ates of the Play Gamecocks Lose Heartbreaker Snipes Stars Fighting with a grim determination and a rever-say.die spirit the "fighting Gamecocks" met their first defeat of the season at the hands of the heavy Tarheel eleven of the University of North Caro lina, at Chapel Hill last Saturday. A fine rain, a slippery ball, and a still more slippery field made the fight all the harder, but the Gamecock team was there till the whistle ended the contest. rhe Tarheels had their hands full du ring the whole game, and they may thank their stars for the first few min utes of the first quarter, for in those iew minutes they acquired enough points to winl the game, although they suc ceeded in nosing out the Gamecocks by a few scant three points, the final score being 10 to 7. North Carolina kicked off to start the game and the Gamecocks put the ball in play on their own twenty-five yard line. A couple of line bucks failed to gain i materially and Carolina prepared to punt. Then it happened-a costly fumble, a quick recovery by a Tarheel, and South Carolina's goal line was crossed for the first time this season. Blount added the extra point by a kick from placement. A few minutes later ,another disaster occurred, when a Game cock back missed a signal and a Tar heel snuggled the ball safely in the pit of his stomach. By a series of line plunges the North Staters advanced the ball to S. C.'s 35 yard line. But just here they ran up against that old time v kig uall the Gariiet and Black eleven is so fano(us itr. Seeing that their ground gaining was about over, Blount again Came to the rescue ind booted the ball between the crossbars for an additional three points. Score-North. Carolina, 10; South Carolina, 0. But the game was yung and the Tarhecls Iead only made the Birds fight the hard er. Never another chance did they get to score during the remainder of that <uarter. or the Ine following. The play surged up and down the field; ftbles seeming to be the order tif the day. I.ine bucks, end runs. passes, and punts gaiied little advantage for either side. The kirds had just taken the ball on downs When the half ended. ,.. ; - !I every elmnd ha.s a silver fining. and so soon after the second hali opened this silver sheen caie to view. And when it came it caime with a rush that bewildered the Tarheels. lere is how it happened, according to thiose w so a it; It is said that the Blue and White team and its support ers are still trying in a dazed way to figure out how it happened, but are not Ih :ig much uccess t.....s there se1tn_s to he no sIhroud1( of mlystery surronding it. It is thet ( amiectck ball tin the 33 y ard line; uies Sizemmore, andh Rhtame are all hack ;tIhe N. C. ends are all set for a run aroundl either of their host tions; the signals crack. and "lHghitin'" Joe Wheeler snapts the hall; the TPar heel forwvards make a rtish for Size tmore whotm, they suppose, has the hall; lbnt t hey made a slight miiscalculation, for while they were exerting themselves to get toi "Sizey," 1lightsey, McM illan, and W\heeler have been~ husy opening up a veritabhle wagoni roadh, and( "Rock"' Snipes has gone crashing through the Tlarheel line, has tludted the grasping fingers oif the hacks, and is cancelling space and( annihilating distance toward the crtoss hars and the white line at the tCONTINUED) ON F'AGE' 6, DAY !