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COACH BILLY LAVAL Carolina's brilliant director who now turns his interest from a successful football season to the indoor sport. FOOTBALL GIVES WA Y TO. COMING WINTER SPORT Basketeers Begin Work as Foot ball is Pushed Behind Curtain VARSITY NIGHT PRACTICE Graduation Last Year Takes Several Good Men From The Team With the football season now occu pying a dimly displayed page in the his toric volume of King Time's "Gridiron Battles of the Past," attention is now abruptly switched to Carolina's pros. pects for a successful winter on the basketball coirt. The varsity and freshmen have been working hard in the preparatory grind for the opening game, the former prac ticing at night, while the latter have been getting in their workouts in the af ternoons. Coach Norman, recently, has had charge of the candidates for both the Gamecocks and Biddie fives; but, now that football season is over, Coach Laval will assume complete control of the "try-outs" for the major quintet. This will mark the first cage seasont fo 1 the Birds under the tutelage of Billy Laval, as it recalled that the former Furman mentor devoted most of his in terest to spring fooball, upon becoming head coach at the University, last January. TIhe material for the varsity has been hard hit through graduation. Fair, once all-sovthern forward, Clark, a utility man and Jimmie Farr, star performer at guard, were handed their "dips" last year, while Holcombe, star center, and Billy Lamar, another exceptional for ward ended their careers with the 1928 season. This year's team will be built around the veterans that remain from 'last sea son's quIntet. Captain Chandler will be back at his forward position, while Win dus , McElrath and Pritchard are can didates at guard, with W,hite leading at center. The prospects from the 195 Biddie five will help fill the gaps, as well as furnish tough competition for last steason's letter ment who are back to regain their old positions. The freshman material, composed of various high school stars, is shqwing splendid ,form and will probably develop into a dangerous machine as the season gets under way. A large number of candidates reported for the opening practices; lAit, for facility in handling the best material, the sq,uad has been norrowed to about 18 to 20 men, or three teams. Practice games will be played by both varsity and freshmen before the indoor ceabon actually gete under way. The Irst gomeclt * gme, .chedule4 for' th (Gemenees. Is to~ be- plaeed eith the Uni The Fog THE GAMECOCKS-hung up a success ful record for the football season, despite the reverses suffered the latter half of the fall. COACH LAVAL by evtering upon his first year as Carolina's mentor, dem onstrated his ability to construct just as successful teams at this in. stitution as he did at Furman. THE BIDDIE GRIDIRON prospects were fortunate in having Coach Norman to give them their prelimi nary taste of college pigskin tac tics, before being graduated to the Varsity. THE SCHEDULE for next fall, with the exception of one game, is prac tically the same as this year's. The Florida 'Gators, who replace the University of Chicago, will meet the Birds in Columbia in November. KAYOED -PRESSLEY and Fatty Squall, all-southern on Izzy Sch wartz's jackass team, looked like a couple of spark plugs in the line against Citadel's enraged Bulldog, last Saturday. Three cheers for Justus. ATTENTION IS NOW turned to the indoor season. Basketball and box ing will reign supreme in the winter sports at the University. CAROLINA'S QUINTET for the 1928 29 season, though handicapped by the loss of five letter men through grad-ation, bids fair to furnish tough going for opponents listed on the schedule. CAPTAIN CHANDLER, Pritchard, Windus, White and McElrath, from last year's aggregation form the material around which the team will he built. Additional candidates from last season's freshman outfit will help fill the gaps left by members of the squad who finished their ca reers with the 1927-28 Gamecock five. THE CAULIFLOWER industry is making rapid progress wnder Jack Aliston. However, there is still room for more. candidates, who like to punch and get punched. T'H-E FIRST MEET for the leather pushers comes shirtly after the hol idays, when P. C. will attempt an invasion of the Gamecocks' roost. The next opponents will be the North Carolina Tarheels, January 19th. TENEMENT FOOTBALL gets under way this week. The survivors of the elimination will play for the intra-mural championship, at a time to be definitely decided upon im mediately following the holidays. versity of Tenessee at Knoxville, De cember 28. The state season opens when the Blue Hose of Clinton will be met in Columbia, January 5. Twenty games have been arranged for the varsity, nine to be played at home, with remaining eleven scheduled fo: opponents on the road. Teams in three states will be met; the Vol. of Tennes see; University of Georgia, at Athena, and the Jewish Progressive Club, at At .launta: Duke and the University of North Csretinsa..n .Tarhat soan. By Foggr May CAMPUS TEAMS BEGIN PRACTICE FOR FOOTBALL Seventeen Teams Entered Con test Last Year-Only 5 So Far Ta Year FRATERNITIES MAY ENTEI Tenement Footbal Instaled Sevea l Years Ago For Pur pose of Recreation Folowing in the wake of the last var sity game will come tenement football to occupy the throne just vacated by the Gamecock warriors. Tenement football does not have the color and glamour of a varsity game but the fierce competition and keen riv alry remains just the same. At this time last year seventeen teams were eagerly awaiting the first crack of the gun, to either send them into oblivion on the campus or to hurl them to the purple heights as campus cham pions of 1927-28. There are 27 tenements on the cam pus but to date only tenements 11 and 12, 4 and 5, 27, 10, 20, and Lexington County have sent in team1 Fraterni ties also have the privilege to enter teams but none of them have done so. If all tenements and fraternities entered teams there would be much keener com petition. Director Crawford insists that every student should take an interest in intra-mural football. Tihe time limit has been extended so that tenements wishing to enter teams may do so. Tenement football was inaugurated several years ago for the purpose of giving students not able to make the varsity team, a chance to play. Plenty newl equipment has been ac quired including new head-gear, should er pads, shoes and footballs. There are still enough footballs left for each team. No overgrown "Cow" will have a chance to mar those beautiful fea tures, for they are barred from the game. This does not mean that every intra mriral player is a coming star, but it does mean that they have a better chance of becoming one, than if they were sitting on the grandstand. Half of the schedule comes before. and half after Christmas, the contests beginning promptly next week. If short of time, call Mr. Crawford by telephone, number i3518, and he will HF.RE'S HOPING the mighty team of Tech, boasting such stars as Mizell Thomason, Lumpkin and Speer, will take t;p where Alabama left off and uphold the honor of the Southern Conference. The Trojans of South ern California, champions of the Pacific coast, will be the Yellow Jackets' opponents in the great in tersectional classic, January 1st. RALPH CUARING Whose name appeared in more starting line.ups thea did any other Gamecek the faar yeara he aaeA. Swimming Team Led By Legare Walker Prospects Make Rapid Progress In team Development-To Meet in Spring The aquatic prospects, under the tute lage of Jack Crawford, are making rapid progress in the development of a team, for which meets with other institutions will be held sometime during the spring. Legare Walker, former star swimmer from the College of Charleston is insli gible for Carolina's team, is assisting Mr. Crawford in rounding the men into shape. Walker has had quite a bit of experience and serves as a valuable man to the coaching staff. At present, Walker is acting in the capacity of "manager" and will continue to do so until one is selected from those making the team at which time a cap tain will also be selected. The men are practicing between the hours 3:00 and 4:00 every Monday, Wiednesday and Friday and, as has been previously announced, have access to the pool at the Y.M.C.A. The squad, which now numbers about fifteen, has been thinned out considerably in order that the best material can receive a greater benefit from the coaching. "Don't practice too hard for you might over-train. Practice just enough to loosen up those old muscles and get them coordinating "Don't learn too many signals. Not over two or three are needed. The best of teams only have a few. "Get a Coach, follow his instructions and get to work." gladly take the team over. In concluding the director gives the following advice: Shoes Mark the OUR DELUX AND IDEAL THE MARK OF DISTINCT] PRI( $4.00 a MARION MILLER, C MERIT S 1531 M1 The College Man's First Choice You will find here more than the average number of shoe styles fust suitsed to the college man's taste. ,John Wardsareprea..sIsu.. as the shoes that college ME N' SHO E S College 19haw DRUFUS GRIFFIN A fine end whose best season closed with the Raleigh game. Boxers Will Fight N.C. And Ga. Teams Carolina Team to Meet Five Col lege" In Coming Season. The University of South Carolina boxing team will meet the teams of five southern institutions during the coming season. The University of Georgia will be met in Columbia, as will the Univer sity of North Carolina. The other three matches are with prominent South Carolina colleges. The complete schedule is as follows: January l-Presbyterian College in Columbia. January 19-University of North Car olina in Columbia. February 8-Citadel in Columbia. February 16-Clemson College in Clemson. February 23-University of Georgia In Columbia. Carolina Man! LINE WIlr GIVE YOU ON AND WELL, DRESSED %ED nd $6.85 ampus Representative HOE CO. LIN ST. 1NUS ENC LS aseM0staw Send$1.0O.e,"" i;"' LinmAR nilCL CO.. les. Ua .&... * P. 20eetre-$.OO per .c. Clumbia Laua&iy I32S Taylne Aa- Pho.. 4954