The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 11, 1928, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
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.
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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.
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