Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Next Week's Issue Will Have a List of the Freshme Football Car didates Fresh! Make it 3 Strail COACH ME3 BRANCH BOCOCK IS TO COACH ALL ATHLETIC COMES DECEMBER FIRS'I Well-Known Georgetown Stat Will Coach AU Sports Here -Metzger Retires Branch Bocock, whom Carolina stu dents will remember as umpire of the lasi Carolina-Clemson setto, well known all round coach and in his college day. famous three-sport star of Georgetowr University in Washington has bee: elected head varsity coach in all branche at the University of S. C. He will as sune his new duties on December first beginning his coaching with the report ol the basketball squad. The contract of Sol Metzger, widel! known football mentor who is concludinE his fifth year at Carolina, has expire( and he has decided to retire from the coaching game to take up his nespapei feature writing. Mr. Bocock, whose pioture in on thi. page, now lives at Winston-Salem, N. C His coaching experience includes V. P. I. Univ. of N. C., Univ. of Georgia and Louisiana State. In each of these place: he met with unqualified success. He re ceived his law degree at Georgetown an for some years beforeturning to coach ing practiced with Senator Chamberlair of Oregon. As Mr. Bocock is a rather fine looking man this information is issued for the co-eds who might wish to "vamp him" He is 38 years old, MARRIED, and a member of 'the Episcopal Church. H< will move here with his family in De cember. Bocock's fame as a player at George town and his success as a coach put him it wide demand as an official. He was tc have been an official at the State Fait game this year but since his election haf asked to be relieved of that assignment In announcing the election of Bococl the University made public a new policy Heretofore each major sport has had it! own coach. Under the new system Bococl is to be all-year coach. The same polic3 will apply to Freshmen athletics Burnett Stoney former Carolina star, re turning to his Alma Mater for his work Last spring the University engaged Jame: G. Driver, of Virginia, as Director of Student Activities. He too, spends the ful: year at the University. Stoney will as sist with the Varsity this year as Brock ington will handle the first year men it an effort to annex three straight stat< championships. Branch Bocock comes with the high est recommendations both as a coach and as a man. It is a striking fact thal instituions, where he has previously coached, emphasized his value as dleveloper of character and manhood, as much as they did his undisputed ability (Continued to Page 6) OFFICIAL SCHEDULES Varsity Sept. 27.-Eskine .....At Home Oct. 4--Univ. of Ga.. .. At Athenu Oct. 11-N. C. State ... At Home Oct. 17--Presby. Col. . .. A t Home Oct. 23--CLEMSON .. .State Fair Oct. 29-Te Citadel.. At Oran'b'g Nov. 1---Univ.of N.C.. . Chapel H ill Nov. 8--Furman Univ. . . At Home Nov. 15--Sewanee. ...At Home Nov. 27--Wake Forest .. At Home (Thanksgiving Game) Freshmen Oct. 4--Presby. Col. . .. At Home Oct. 18--CLEMSON . . .. At Home Nov. 1--Newberry. ...At Home Nov. 7--Furman . .. A t Greenville 7ZGER SAYS Captain Meyer Asks For Hearty Support (By Captain Meyer) The University of South Carolina has this year better prospects for a winning football team than ever before in the history of the instution. The candidates are all a conscientious, hard working lot with the good of the team at heart. Each t and every one of them is determined to do his best for Carolina. But the team alone and unsupported cannot win games. We need the support of every man and I woman in the student body at every game. We want every studennt to come out and "yell his or her head off" for us, winning or losing and we promise to do our best to make it easy for you to yell. We want the band out ,naking plenty of r music at all the home games. They add a lot to the spirit of the occasion and put I pep into spectators and players alike. If the team does not seem to be run as good as you think you could run it-just tell it to yourself, nobody else-we want boosters, not knockers. The men and coaches are doing the best they can and will only be handicapped by advice from you. Always support the Gamecocks, THEY ARE YOUR TEAM AND ARE WHAT YOU MAKE THEM. Always look on the brightest side of things. --U.S.C Hankins was back on the campus Tuesday with the same old hat. That's how ye scribe knew him. --U.S.C. It is rumored that Skeet Gasque is coming back to beat the bass drum in Dr. Olson's band. He's taking law. No way to pick a dingle Skeet. -U..C. Have you applied for heat in your ra diator this year?-Polier the fellow with the long nose sells them-also hot bath tickets to men. Old Sol Smiles .... .. . Sol Metzger still wears his habitual smile and easily too for after this season he loses the worries of the coaching world and starts his newvspaper writing. Sol inltends5 to p)ut out a winining team this ye:ar. FOOTBALL New Iear ') . . . .... This is Branch Bocock, recently elect ed head of all Carolina sports, who wvill assume his duties here beginning with the Jimmie Drive Record in E Head of Student Activities is Well Equipped for His Work at Carolina-Returns Home. The University of South Carolina this year enters upon its new policy of an all year round coaching staff. Trhe king pin of this new system is the man known as Director of Student Activities. James G. (Jimmy) Driver, who last year entered upon the preliminaries of this office, is now rather well known among the students but it will not be amiss to say a few words of his highly varied career. Jimmy was born in Harrisonburg Virginia where he attended High School upon completing his secondary education lie entered (then rather small) William andl Mary College. For three long years he p!odd(edl along with the varsity squads in four major sports and in his senior year the task of faithfulness was award ed for he was in one year elected captain of four teams--baseball, football, basket ball and track. This record Sol Metzger tells us is equalled by only one other man in college football. When Driver had taken all the laurels W. & M. could offer him he attended the University of Virginia where he was a four-letter man. Then comes Carolina's first contact with our present Director for during the years 1911-12, and 1912-13 he uvas Di Se s. IPROIL0SPEC TS ?OUnd Coach I . S. .....0 Basketball Season. Hie is a former Georgetown U. star and is well known in coaching circles throughout the South. r Has Varied irecting Wor reto o thetc fr heGmeocs inbaeball andeask etbaalfrm. ineavding cires hoahon utine outh.e tre yeas Varywetinteeadcn trcting W oc aridhmtrkhu rnor ofe Awyfathleticsh Gahocks. Iacieall 1912h-Was ne nousfo thac't years wewhaer tncehd theGarets For thei frs ther1 colears wfe defate lenand that the wh itteah of 2 captin,sh Cainructe als tte champns in basoetl pactic band pysiiaalxer caisengfe the cachingsties wor ovter tracticag dihichucried fhoude thoudiers. then tae retnadead Meo he couldh andtke wary frome asheti oathoughs. at is int'6 eret to nebertatathi Colle Wlas had aryWraned ntol msorea notarbleschedrue d igte antwnd outc 10 toir t hery. grdio Luckily four oters collegero takn tage the oWarcled immy to6) m cs.Afterthenamstc hepors onth phyicliPiclte ofwudd. odes nd all Your Gamecock Con tributions to Box 444 Canteen W. Eichel, Sport Editor A RE GOOD COACHING STAFF HEAD MAKES NO PROPHECIES PRACTICE PROVES TO BE FAVORABLE (B3y, Sol Metzger) The Football practice began on Tues day, September 2, for the former varsity and Freshman players of last year. The men who reported the first ilay were Wright, Bartelle, Dukes, Boyd, Gunter, Swink, Boatwright, Edmunds, Jeffords, Rodgers, and Brice. Within a week Captain Meyer. Mills, Jaskiewicz and Seideman joined the squad, which was also augumented by the return of various men with scrub experience from previous years. Morning and afternoon work-outs, except on rainy (lays, have been indulged in ever since. During othe 'rainy weather practice was confined to the afternco session only. Blackboard talks, the so called "skufl" practice, have been held every afternoon. Afternoon sessions have been held late to avoid the heat, al though the squad has been favored with cooler weather than usual. Morning ses sions have been secret as will much of practice from now on until the session is closed. This is necessary all reports to the contrary notwtihstanding. The men reported in better condition than in the past four years and the squad has worked faithfully. It is greatly hand dicapped by lack of material' at certain positions, there being but two substitut es at this wriing for five positions. The team should be slightly heavier than last year, though the personnel will not change greatly. We miss Joe Wheeler, "Shag". Simmons and Bill Holland, all of whom were last by grad uation. As to the outlook for the season little (Continued to Page 6) Leads Birds We all know.ths. man, Captai pWay aainst v hi.tehs man, indeain able fighting spirit and just can't be kept clown. Look at the bottom of every play and there is Frankie. This is Captian Meyer's last year and he promises that he wvill do his share toward making it Caro lina's bt.