Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TARHEELS CRUS TO CHALK I North Carolina Back Throu< Branch, Slusser, Ward, Spauli Early Stubborn Res Aided materially by perfect in refused to bend, North Carolin rough shod over a bewildered and day to pile up a score of 40 to I tween the two teams. In defeating the Gamecocks, th< Tarheels ran up the largest score or a South Carolina team since Billy Laval took over the coaching reins and administered the worst licking handed the Birds in the last fifteen years of the traditional series. North Carolina's big forward wall of Tarheel huskies completely outplayed the Rooster line at every stage of the game, holding with determination on the defense and opening gaping holes on the offense for their shifty backs to "allop through. Although Julian Beall, Hob Gressett and Monk Shand put on a great fight in the line, they were crushed by the overpowering weight of the North Staters and could do little at critical moments. START GOOD The Gamecocks started out as il ben^ upon making North Carolina pay dearly in the last of a long traditional series between the two rivals. They battled on fairly even terms for a few moments with the Birds, perhaps, having the upper hand, when of a sudden the Carolina backs contracted a fumbling malady and paved the way for the Tarheel rout. Once the scoring started, there was no stopping it, and after the first quarter, the Roosters never had a chance. North Carolina scored early in the first period after the two teams had grappled fiercely at each other's throats for a few exciting moments. After the Birds had advanced the ball to the Tarheel's 24-yard line on a short march down the field, North Carolina held and took the ball on downs. Punts were exchanged and finally a Carolina fumble handed the visitors the ball on their 33 yard line. Several line plays and a 9-yard pass advanced the ball to Carolina's 44-yard line in jig time and 011 the next play, Spaulding pranced through the entire Gamecock eleven for the necessary yardage and a touchdown. Extra point was kicked and the score favored North Carolina 7 to 0. FUMBLE FATAL 1 he second Tarheel touchdown also came as an indirect result of a fumble, recovered 011 the Rooster's 33-yard line. Slusser, almost single handed advanced the ball down the field for a touchdown, ably assisted by a 10-yard pass flipped by Ward to Nelson. Extra point was added and the score was 14 to 0. North Carolina's third touchdown was an outright gift that would dress up any kind of a Christmas tree. Carolina, held back, way back, in her own territory, attempted a lateral pass to take the ball out a piece but something went wrong. The pass went awry, bounded back of the Gamecock goal line and was pounced upon by an alert North Carolinian. Try for extra point failed, but North Carolina was far and away ahead, 20 to 0. The third touchdown absolutely demoralized the Birds and whatever hopes they had entertained of overcoming the initial two touchdowns was drowned in the depths of despair that came their way after this last touchdown. From this time 011, the game was a complete rout and North Carolina's all the way. THAT BOY WARD The rivals see-sawed back and forth in South Carolina territory during the early moments of ihe third session, but the Tarheels gradually worked the pigskin down the field until, suddenly, Ward culminated the drive with a 13yard dash through the Carolina forward wall for the fourth touchdown. After extra point was kicked, the score favored North Carolina, 27 to 0. Ward's beautiful heave to Spaulding, good for some 20 yards, provided the fifth touchdown ror the Tarheels, making the score 34 to 0. With a steady stream of substitutes going in for both sides, South Carolina held a bit better in the fourth quarter and held the North Staters to only one touchdown. This came about ;h roosters ip 40 to o win s Gallop Monotonously " h Birds ling Run Wild To Batter Down distance Of Gamecocks terferenee and a big blue line that n's far famed hundred backs ran erratic South Carolina eleven Saturl) in the homecoming day clash be: BIRDS DOPED TO BEAT HURRICANE | Despite Defeat At Hards Of Tarheels, Lavaliers Favored To Win 1 Still recovering from the severe buffeting handed them last week by the , powerful North Carolina Tarheels, Billy Laval's Carolina Gamecocks will 1 get down to strenuous drills for the remainder of the week in preparation for their important state clash with Furman's Purple Hurricane at Greenville Saturday. The defects exhibited in the GameI cock machine Saturday were so numerous that it will take hard work on ' the part of the tutors this week to improve them and polish off the rough i spots in time for the game Saturday. Furman, possessing a team of great . potential strength has never really hit her stride yet this season and unless they can do better against Carolina than they have been doing in other state games to date, they won't give , the Roosters much trouble. Should [ they hit their stride during the game, , there's no telling v/hat might happen. j v CAROLINA FAVORED ( Although the Birds lost overwhelml ingly last week, dopesters have act counted for it in many different ways, i and Carolina will enter the Furman ; game slight favorites to win. The Hurricane line will outweigh the Carolina forward wall but the hacks are about evenly matched with Carolina, perhaps, having a bit the edge in heft. While no lineup has been announced yet for the game, the following men are the likely choices to start the affray: Gressett and Powell at ends; Shand and Adair, tackles; Moore and Hughey, guards; Beall, center; Rhame, quarter; Boineau and Stoddard, halves; Culp, full. when Ward dashed 20 yards over the goal line after Branch, House and Spaulding had lugged the ball down the field in a sustained drive. Little Shorty Branch and Jimmy Ward, the latter a South Carolina boy, starred in the backfield, while Hugh Stoddard was the lone luminary in the Gamecock secondary. Beal played a great game at center and Gressett looked great at times. The rest of the line played mediocre most of the time and were never able to outcharge the Tarheel forwards. IT. H. O. Agnes?Look, they're bringing that player off the field. Do you suppose he's hurt? Dot?No, stupid, he's just too lazy to walk. NEW TENNIS COURTS With three new courts on the vacant lot west of Burney college now under construction and expected to be in playing condition within the next few days, tennis lovers of the University will have just that much more ample outlet for their athletic inclinations. While there are a great number of courts already situated at different parts of the campus, the court game is so popular with students, both men and women, that the construction of these new courts was absolutely essential. Should the court game continue its phenomenal increase in popularity at the University, officials will have to take steps to remove a dormitory or so to make room for new courts. By JULIAN KRAWCHEK I BIRDS TO PLAY TECH AND DUKE Replace North Carolina And Virginia On 1930 Grid Schedule Georgia Tech's Rambling Wrecks and the Blue Devils of Duke University will appear on the schedule of Carolina's 1930 Gamecocks according to an announcement by R. K. Foster, director of athletics at the university. Tech and Duke will supplant Virginia and North Carolina as conferencc games for the Birds next year, the last ' two elevens being unable to arrange dates with Carolina for 1930. According to rumor, either Erskine or Presbyterian College will be dropped from the Gamecock schedule next year to make place for an additional conference foe, which will probably be either Georgia, V. P. I. or Tulane. PROBABLE FOES 1 While the remainder of the schedule hasn't been released yet, it is generally understood that Clemson, Furman, Maryland, Florida, Citadel and N. C. State will be played again next year. Whether or not, Tennessee will be on the schedule again, remains to be seen. In arranging games with Tech and Duke, Carolina officials have wisely selected schools with large stadiums and great potential strength. Tech won the national championship last year and promises to continue to put out great teams in the future. Duke, while a newcomer in the conference, promises in another year or so to be one of the strongest teams in the south, and is a distinct asset to Carolina's schedule. There has been considerable talk of meeting Chicago again in 1930 but it is doubtful if the game can be arranged as no contract can be agreed upon by both teams. Chicago, it is said, wishes to draw up a home and home contract, but due to Carolina's lack of a stadium, this is impossible. ir.H.o. BIDDIES-FURMAN MEET SATURDAY Furman Brings Great Yearling Squad Down For Game On Melton Field Having enjoyed a two weeks rest since their one sided victory over the Citadel Bullpups at Charleston, the Biddies of Carolina are slated to clash with one of their most powerful foes of the season here Friday when they lock horns with the Furman yearlings on Melton Field. Furman has one of the best freshmen teams she has developed in years and only last week handed the Clemson yearlings, conquerors of the Biddies, a drubbing in Greenville. The Biddies have been used most of the season for the purpose of scrimmaging the varsity with opposition plays and consequently has not developed as strong an offense as she might have had. She has one of the best freshmen lines in the south, defensively, and if the backficld can function properly behind it, should be able to give the Little Wind a good scrap. So far this year, the Biddies have lost to Clemson, tied Presbyterian college, and defeated Citadel so that her record is at the .f><)0 mark to date. U. H. O. FIGHTERS TURN OUT FOR DRILLS Aspirants for the boxing team at Carolina this winter reported to Coaches Allison and Crawford last Monday at the field house and were issued equipment and initial instructions. Workouts were announced for every afternoon at the gymnasium. Among the men who answered the initial call for candidates were West, Wilson, Watts, Brailsford, Bradley and other promising material. Other men who are expected to report within the next week or so are Parker, Craven, Leardo, I)e Vaughn, Stoddard, Lutniansky and others. While Harry Wolfe and George Keels, the two mainstays of the team yast year won't be back this year, several men arc being groomed for their old positions and in all probability, capable men will be developed for those berths. De Vaughn, a husky football tackle, is perhaps the most likely choice for Wolfe's old position as heavyweight. A 180 pounder, De Vaughn is shifty on his feet and is said to pack a mean wallop. Due to football practice he has been unable to report yet but is expected to do so directly after the grid season is over. Sport Chants IT IS BEGINNING to look at last as though the alumni are about to take some definite steps toward securing a football stadium for Carolina. While no plans have been announced yet, the alumni have apparently become interested in the project and when the alumni get interested in anything, something usually happens as any little boy can readily tell you. THERE HAS BEEN some talk all along of constructing such a plant but it remained for George Bell Timmerman, president of the Alumni Association, to get the old grads aroused over the proposition in his inspiring speech before the gathering last Saturday at the annual alumni banquet. To quote Mr. Timmerman in part: "I BELIEVE THAT in Billy Laval, Carolina has one of the best coaches in the nation. However, there are two things that even Coach Laval can't do. He can't take a 170 pound man and make a 200 pound linesman out of him and he can't take a crowd of 12,000 people and pack them in a 6,000 stadium." ONE THING IS certain. If Carolina doesn't go about building a stadium within the next year or two, she is going to find it increasingly difficult to schedule games with outstanding southern conference foes. Rumor has it, that that was the real reason why North Carolina didn't wish to play us next year. They probably claim that there l? no percentage in their playing us every other year in a high school stadium and they're absolutely right. THE LESS SAID about the game Saturday, the better. Carolina, without doubt, was up against a vastly superior football machine, but even the most pessimistic of Carolina supporters will say that there wasn't six touchdowns difference between the two teams. Under ordinary circumstances, I think that North Carolina has a three touchdown better eleven but hot a whit more. THOSE TARHEELS certainly do have one sweet team, no kidding about that. They handle the ball like they were born with it and a more smoother clicking machine has seldom been seen on Melton Field. At their best they would give Tennessee a tough scrap and mop up with Tulane's Green Wave. Its a pity they didn't play Clemson. Carolina beat Citadel Citadel beat Oglethorpe Oglethorpe beat Georgia Georgia beat Yale Yale beat Army Army won the war ergo, Carolina won the war. U.B.O. "I've been hunting in the mountains for weeks." "How many gallons did you find?" He?I've got half a mind to get married. Ditto?Well, that's all you need. PICKING THEM OUT Still reeling from the terrific blows handed the old dope bucket and this writer last week, once more we wipe the dust off the old typewriter and go about the extremely dangerous task of selecting grid winners. Our percentage now is but a fraction over .700 and going down like nobody's business. Carolina over Furman Citadel over Mercer Wofford over Newberry Florida over Clemson Duke over N. C. State Navy over'Wake Forest North Carolina over Davidson Alabama over Ga. Tech Georgia over Auburn L. S. U. over Mississippi Tulane over Sewanee Tennessee over Vanderbilt Wake Forest over P. C. Kentucky over V. M. I. Maryland over V. P. I. Virginia over W. & L. STATE ELEVENS SUFFER NUMBER LOSSES IN WEEK P. 0. ONLY WINNER Week Ends Disastrously For Palmetto Teams As Carolina, Olemson Lose A week of ragged football, the most disastrous of the year for South Carolina College elevens, drew to a welcome close on the state gridiron front Saturday night, leaving in its wake but one lone Palmetto team with a victory to show for its' efforts during the week. The old North State, long the unfhI<V?gS lu inter."8tatc contests with their southern sisters, aroused from their pigskin lethargy to take a couple whii?v ?" i r Palme*to rivals while Virginia was contributing another to the wrong side of the ledger. aiXrctsbfteriaV?,,e?e'the on,y tea able to eke out a win, won their's at the expense of another state eleven swamping Erskine's Seceders, 44 to 6, in the biggest surprise of the week m??PCT? ? W?n a touchdown or more, Erskine s air fleet failed to flv according to previous exhibitions, and were no match for the stout CalviSTst line and fleet backfield. BIRDS CRASH Carolina's spotty Gamecocks broke under the strain of an unusually hard schedule and were unable to stop the barlr l ^orth Carolina's hundred backs, losing 40 to 0, in a miserable exhibition of football. otb^T' *?ra"c,h, Wagner, Slusser and .. I Tarheel hall toters made merry while the sun shone on Melton Field and after the first opening moments of the game, the Roosters never had a chance. Still staggering drunkenly from the terrific buffeting handed them by Kentucky, Clemson's Tigers could do notha/amst j gin'a Military Institute and dropped a 12 to 0 decision to the team from the Old Dominion. WINDS BLOW In perhaps the most fiercely coupon! Hme- ?f th? Furman's 1 urp e Hurricane and the Blue Squall of Citadel blew with equal velocity at Charleston resulting in a 0 to 0 deadThe Hurricane outplayed the Cadets throughout the first half and threatened serious on two or three occasions but could never muster sufficient strength to shove the ball across. In the final session, the Bulldogs came hack and swapped blow for blow for j the remainder of the game. Wofford's Terriers could do nothing tT, W,akf For?t line and the North Carolina Deacons took home an 18 to 0 victory to preach about. Whenever the Terriers got anywhere near the danger zone, the Deacon forward wall failed to bend and the Methodist ball toters hit it ball nced backwards like a rubber U.8.O. BASKETEERS IN OPENING DRILLS Aspirants For Cage Team Working Out Every Other Night At Field House Working out every other night at the University field house under the watchful direction of Coach A. W Norman, Carolina's basketball team is rapidly rounding into shape and will A n a. P?sition to tackle the ?i c i nS w,'l come on after the football season is over. Among the men out now are Captain DnPr, cC,/lhert' ft;il,iard> Pritchard, Dul re Schwartz, Floyd, Bcdenbaugh, and other likely looking material. Several other good men including Boineau, Hatchet, Powell, Hughey c Vaughn and others will report for practice just as soon as the football season is completed. Ahhough Chandler, Wolfe, White, and W indus, four regulars from last year, will be missing this year, the Birds chances for a winning team are exceedingly bright. Games with North Carolina, N. C. otate, Duke, Auburn, Ga. Tech Georgia, I'urman, Citadel, Clemson and other outstanding teams are on the schedule and should give the Carolina hasketeers plenty of opposition.