Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GRID SEASON REPLETE WITH MANY UPSETS Gamecock Smitten with Reverses From Beginning, Make Mediocre Showing WON FOUR OUT OF NINE Victories Won From Erskine Virginia, U.N.C. and The Citadel On Thanksgiving day Carolina wrote the final chapter to a nine-game foot ball season which has. ecen character ized by misfortune from the begining to the end. Coach Lightsey cauight tough breaks before the session opened and they increased instead of decreas ing. A stiff schedule was played, and considering her many misfortunes Carolina did well to win four games out of the nine. This was the first sea son in many years that the Gamecocks hive not broke better than even. Erskine came to Columbia for the initial fracas on September 25, and managed tcj score a single touchdown in the closing minutes of play. Score: Carolina 13, Erskine 6. Lightsey took his men to College Park, Maryland on the following Sat urday for a contest with the Univer sity of Maryland Old Liners. Thi Maryland team, angry for revenge, for a crushing defeat at the hands of the Gamecocks itf the preceeding autumn, thrust their way through the -Garnet and Black defense for four touch downs. Zobels passing was the feature of Carolina's play. Score: Maryland 26, Carolina 0. - Journeying to Virginia on Oct. 9, the Gamecocks knocked the dope into a cocked hat by taking a sensational vic tory from the University of Virginia. With two minutes to play and w:tl Virginia ahead by a touchdown margin. Ed Zobel clutched a fluke Carolina pass and scored a touchdown. He fol lowed this up .with a goal kick to win the game. Score: Carolina 13, Virginia 12. Homecoming Day was a joyous one for alumni and students alike when the Gamecocks toppled the Tarheels -i the University of North Carolina froim their high pedestal, defeating them >v an eight point advantage. Toim Mag*l crashed over guard for 12 yards to put Carolina ahead by six points and Swink intercepted a pass to run for the second counter. It .was by all odds the best played game of the season and Carolin i reached the peak of her form that day. Score: Carolina 14, North Carolina 6. Interest was at white-hot heat for the State Fair classic. Carolina, slack of reserve strength, put the Game cock .at a decided disadvantage, and Clemson ran across three t'ouchdowns in the final quarter to win 20 to 0. Citadel came next and a large per cent2ge of the student body made the trip to Orangeburg for the contest. Captain Wingfield took a long -pass from Wingfield to score the only touch clown of the battle. Teddy Hutchinsory slippery Bulldog halfback, was the star of the game. miaking b)eautiful runs galore. Score : Carolina 6. Citadel 0. Trhe V. P. I. Gobbllers obtained re venge in plenty for Carolina's 18 to 0 victory last year when they piled up a big score in the game at Richmond Zobel played brillianitly for three per iodls making miany tackles. He was forced fronm the field on account of in juries. Score: Carolina 0, V. P. I. 35. "Pep" meetings and shirt-tail p)a rades were held during the week before the game with Furman. The Pumple Hurricane blew with tremendous pow er however and Carolina's dogged de fense was smashed. Cooper and KeeFs were the main defensive Gamecock rars. Score: Furmian 34, Cardlina 0. Jack McDowell and the rest of the North Carolina State Wolfpack crush ed the Gamect>cks in the Thanksg:ving day game. Score: N. C. State 34, Caro lina 0. This closed the 1927 season. Widow-WVill you kiss me, my big blonde baby? - -College Boy-Well you know me Max. Widow-Max .who? College Boy--Well, it Max know difference. Making love to a cold woman is try to play a ukelele with an axe. College Ship Cruise Planned for Sept. '28 Twey - Seven cntries and Thirty-Seven Different Ports To Be Visited The date of sailing from New. York of the second College World Cruise on board the S. S. Ryndam, has been an nounced by Charles H. Phelps, Jr., president of the University Travel. as sociation, as September 19, 1928. After seven and one-half months' cruise of over 40,000 miles by land and sea, the college will return to New York on May 4, 1929. During the cruise 27 foreign coun tries are visited and the steamer calls at 37 -different ports. Sailing westward the. Ryndam calls firsf at Havana, then through the Panama Canal, stopping at Colon and Balboa, thence to San Francisco, and from there across the Pacific tQ the Hawaiian Islands, Japan, China, the Phillippines, Siam, the Str4ft Settlemefits, Java, Sumatra, Ceylo, India, Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, TurlFky, the Mediteranean and Europe. Interesting programs have been ar ranged at each port and special trains will take the students in groups, on island trips in Japan, Java, Siam, Cey lon, India, Egypt, Palestine, Italy, France, Germany, and ; England. In most of the foreign countries official receptions and entertainments will be provided and will afford the students an :nsight into the customs and lives of the people that is not afforded the tourists. Last year, it will be recalled, the en tire faculty and student body were for four days the guests of King Rama VII of Siam; it is expected that the same reception will be accorded to thr members of the second cruise. -_usc Ruth-Is there an art in kissing? Doug-None except, "Art thou will ing?" .but wad Cecil Scott Returns From'Y' Conference Cecil W. Scott, secretary of the 'Y', was in Atlanta from December 9 to 11' where he attended a conference at the Columbia Theological Seminary, held for all Southern 'Y' secretaries. He reports that there were a great many representatives present and that he had a very pleasant trip. Of the subjects discussed the most important was, "'Problems That Confront Student Y.M.C.A. Organizations and How to Meet Them." Plans were also made for the Blue Ridge conference which is to be held next June. --Uc - Overhead at the game-Dearest, your eyes are like two deep wells of love. She-Hold that line. CAROLINA STUDENTS1 A Good Place to Eat MRS. L. K. BEST 1012 Marion Street One - Half Block From Campus "The House of Quaity" Established in 1844 The R. L. BRYAN COMPANY Books, Stationery, Printing. Binding, Office Furniture and Specialties Columbia, South Carolina . .. . .... Iesterlit don't ith the t ch how other smina fMonday, Tuesdy W 4ne.sday Gamille with NORMA TALMADGE Thursday, Friday, Saturday My Best Girl with MARRY PICKFORD SYLVAN BROS. * SYVAN ROS.For Fruit Drinks. 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