Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THREE TEAMS KEEP CLEAN GRID SLA TES Tenements One, Six and Twenty Have Won Two Games and Lost None MORE GAMES AFTER XMAS Crawford Suspends Schedule of Intramural Football Until After Holidays The Intramural football activities ceased yesterday afternoon and will Se resumed after the Christmas holidays. Four or five. days will be allowed for practice and tenement 29 will hook up with 4 and 5 in the initial after-hau day contest. Three teams are tied for leadership at the end of the second week. Ten ements 1, 6 and 20 have two victories each and not a single mark on the "lost column." Tenement 14-15 have thrown a monkey wrench into the system of the series by tying in both games they have played. The teams from 18 and 19 and from 11 and 12 have a standing of 500. per cent. Others have won no games. Few men have been injured in. th;s years series as contrasted with that of last fall when a large percentage were injured more or less seriously. Mr. Crawford is giving good equipment t the players and those that. have been enrolled in the regular gymnasium classes during the fall were given in struction and practice in the rudiments of the gridiron game by Charlie Rob inson and Jack Crawford. Tenement 6, Thirteen; 29 Nothing Games of this week: Buster Joyner's hard hitting team put the skids under the eleven from Burney college by a decisive count. This was the first warni weather game so far. If was played Monday after noon. Drake and Dudley drove through th., Burney line for good gains and the passing machine of the Rutledge boys was in fine working order. Tenement 4-5, Six; 16-17, Nothing The heavy backfield of four and fiv. was the paramount factor in the %;C tory of that team. Cash and Carro way starred. Tenement 16-17 were defeated for the second time in this game. Tenement 1, Twelve; 11-112, Nothing Onlookers were numerous on the sidelines for the opening of this game, for both teams were known to bear a potent threat for the cup champion ship. The light team from DeSaussure conquered 2 and 3 last week. Tene ment 1 continued its march, but ex perienced a strong obstacle in the De Saussure team. *The Pinckney eleven scored in the first half. Woffordl broke away on a beautiful reverse endl run and carriedl the ball 25 yards where he was tackle,l on the ten yard mark. Davis took the oval and in two plays had played it across the goal line. Tenement 11 and 12 opened a strong passing attack Ibut were unable to score. W.iller was the throwing end of the tosses until Rivers rep)laed Gause Ipte in the game. . Davis hurled his "big guns"-Foy, Burns and Wofford at the line as the second half began and in short ordler the oval wvas worked into enemy terrn tory. Burns, with constimnate ease, slipped off left tackle for the second touchdown. Tenement 20, Twelve; 28, Nothing Tenement 20 kept her slate clean by walloping tenement 28 twelve to noth ing. The Elliott team defeated 22 last week 19 to 0. 14-I5. Nothing; 18-19 Nothing Tenement 14 and 15, minus the ser *vices of the dloughty Doug Kindec - played 18 and 19's strong team to a scoreless tie Tuesday afternoon. The DeSaussure eleven hammered the line, Bruton and Howle bearing~ the brunt of the attack to the five yard line and first down when the first half terminated. It was a stiff fight and honors were abouat even. Pick Arrowsmith and Mc. EOORT E. W. BALLENQBR, Editor INKPOTI BILL COOPER will lead the Game cocks to battle next -year. A star' player and a fine -man -has beeii selected for this important post. Cooper is the aggressive type of athlete and that will make him es pecially fitted to captain the team. We wish Bill the best of success in his new position. - INEPT - WARM weather brought a revival of interest in the intra-mural gridiron struggle. Many turned out for the games this week. Here's hoping old "Sol" will bestow his sunny smiles on Melton field as the series opens after the holidays. - INKPOT - ONE OF the best known of South Carolina athletes has become a fa miliar figure on the Carolina cam pus. Charlie Robinson, who played his last game in a Ciemson Tiger uniform in 1924, is taking M.A. work at the University. Robinson holds what is probably a world's high school record for drop kicks in a single gane. - INKPoT - IN THE Carolina-Clemson contest of 1923, Charlie defeated the Game cocks by placing a neat drop-kick between the uprights. Clemson won seven to six. - INEoT -- INTER-COLLEGIATE activities are at their lowest ebb at this period of the year. Football is over except for a few sectional contests, and basketball has not taketi the reins yet. -INKPOT- - ONE of the inter-sectional games which will be watched with interest by South Carolinians is the Southet i conference picked team's battle with a picked team from western col leges. U--c ElIveen warred privately while the bat tie raged. The game almost came to a free-for-all oice or twice. Tenement 6, Twelve; 4-5, Nothing Tenement 6, scored two touchdowvns in the first half to put the gaine on :.-.. This was the only contest played v,.* terday. Dudley and Floyd were out -I tenement six's line-up. Drake, the fast halfback was handicapped by the we field and failed to show his usual good form. A long punt from the ten yard line by tenement 4-5 was fumbled by Drake and in the inssuing scramble the oval was knocked far down the field where larnes, of the p)unting team, recovered on) the 15 yard line. Drake intercepted a pass to dIrown the threat and the game ended three minutes later. Drake hurled a long pass to Fogle as the final quarter opened andl he all but managed to reach the goal lin. TIhe opposing defense tightened, how ever, and no further scoring wvas ac complllished. Standing of the Teams Won Lost 'Tied Tenceent 6...........2 () ( Tenement 1............2 0 *) Tenement 20 ........... 2 0 0 Tenement 18-19 ........ I 1 Tenement 14-15 .......... 0 0 2 rTeneent 11-12 .........I 1 0 Tenement 4-5 ...........1 2 0 Tenement 2-3 .......... 0 1 0 Tenement 22 ...........0 1 0 Tenement 28 ...........0 1 0 Tenement 29............ 0 1 0 Tenement 16-17 .........0 2 0 - use Nineteen Varsity C's Given Football Men Twenty-One Freshmen Players Cet Coveted Numerals for Past Season's Work Nineteen varsity players were given the coveted block "C" and 21 fresh man players their numerals for woric during the recent football season a. Carolina. The advisoy board, in whose "BILL" COOPER Football Captain Elect Florence Boy Leads Gamecock Warriors "Bill" Cooper Elected to Captain Football Squad of the Coming Year William Cooper, a Florence boy, was. elected captain of the 1928 Universify' of South Carolina football team, at, a banquet for the football squad given Tuesday night at the Jeit-.rqon hotel. Cooper has( been an outstanding var sity back for two, seasons and, was a regular player on the freshman eleven in his first year at the University. The news that he had been elected as cap tain was received with much enthus iasm'6n the campus. "Bill," as he is known by everyone, was one of the most dependable backs on the Carolina team during the season just finished. He pounds )opposing lines with terrfic power and he is an excel lent defensive ian. The football banquet was charactir ized by the absence of long-winded specches. Former Captain Wingfiell was the only member of the team to be called on to talk. Power Rogers, pres:dent of the Block "C" club acted as toa.tmiaster. HIEINIE FAIR Captain of Basketball Men hands the awards rest, too action rec ently. Although is case, of course, where a' ian already has the "C" ne~ wvas g'ven the right to add a star for the extra year and the captain was given his crescent.. Varsity awards: Capt. Wingfield, Holcombe, Keels, Windus, F. Thomas, Wolfe, Rodgers, Beall, Guarino, Price, Joye, Sw'nk. Cooper, Zobel, McGilt, Fulmer, R, Stoddard, Joyner and Man ager Coggeshall. Freshman awards: Captain Beall, Weinstein, Leardo, Brown, Yarborough Zimmerman, Leschinsky, Christopher, Morrison, Moore, Shand, Boineau, Gressette, Mullen, Holloway, Donelan,' Eden. Rlontn and A.bill, -Adne -O3 1117 Washington St. 6ILLY OwBN & PAuL A Meal a Minute MERCHANT'. 'AILORS .,qeiv* st"t Columbia,... C. SANDW16HA & VAFFLS Ckasing, 'Prisig - H Repaiing r Aigina agd g saxd6kc Suits &: Overciats Made to Order S Milk-0c P Pint THINGS THA T REMIND US OF CHRISTMAS! 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