The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 11, 1931, Page Page Six, Image 6

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Pugilis Birds L < Colonels Are Winners, 9-7 Kentuckians Score Safety On . Varsity And Touchdown On Second Stringers "Skipper" Adair Star Oarolina Tackle Blocks Punt To Start Touchdown March In Third Quarter By ALAN SCHAFER Scoring a touchdown on the Carolina second string in the second quarter after tallying a safety in the opening stanza, the Praying Colonels of Centre soundly thrashed an indifferent Gamecock team Saturday, 9-7 in a game on Melton Field played for charity. The Colonels played a surprising ' game from the outset and had the I Birds on the run the entire game, except for a 30-yard drive down the field I by the Birds in the third quarter which accounted for the lone Carolina touch down. Approximately 3,000 spectators paid H $2,278 to see the game and the OrI phanage received approximately $700 of this. Expenses amounted to $1,600. ! Two fumbles by Shinn and HamI bright gave the Centre team its safety I in the first period. Centre's passing / attack began functioning in the second I period and the Colonels brought the ball from their own 40-yard line to I Carolina's 4-yard stripe where Noe, Centre back carried it over. BarksI We carry a full line of Drugs, Hollingsworth Candy, Cosmetics, i Parker Pens and Pencils a Specialty UNIVERSITY DRUG STORE i "Where the 'Gang' Meets" Campus and Town Delivery 1204 Green Phones 4331-4332 Snooker, Carom, c M&MRECRE4 1216 Main Street Jessamin $25.00 ar With 2 Pair Trouser COPELAND 1535 Mai | | NEW*SHOE 1345 Main Street HALF-SOLES AND R We call for and delivei fc BURNETT'S Carolina Seals, Jewelry, HI' _ Carolina and Fro One Block Prom Campus ^ ^ ^ Corner Main an / ;ts Pre >rop 67i< Cock-A-Doodles I By ALLEN ROLLINS Carolina played ten games before approximately 100,000 spectators this season, probably the largest season attendance in the history of football at the University. About 15,000 persons witnessed the Gamecocks' victory over Duke at the fair grounds; 15,000 saw Georgia Tech score twice in the second half to beat the Birds two touchdowns in Atlanta; 12,000 saw L. S. U. nose out Carolina at Baton Rouge; 12,000 were present when Clemson's Tigers were beaten at the fair grounds; 8,000 saw the Birds vanquish Citadel at Orangeburg; 11,000 saw the Furman game at the fair grounds, 12,000 the Florida game at Tampa, 6,000 the N. C. State game on Melton Field, 7,000 the Au|>urn game in Montgomery, and 3,000 the Centre game on Melton Field. STOLEN?A WORD The less said about the loss , to Centre last week the better. But something was evident during that game that won't go down in the records. The word made famous by Ted Husing, radio announcer, in describing the play in one particular game of Harvard's Barry Wood could be applied to the Gamecocks' performance against the Praying Colonels without any fear of censure from even the players themselves. Putrid is the word and putrid it be. True Centre had a good team and beyond any doubt deserved .to win. Carolina was plainly stale from a hard season and an exacting game with Auburn ten days previous. It would have taken a super coach at his best under similar conditions to keep the squad at any high degree of efficiency in the fundamentals or maintain anything approaching the desired mental attitude for a team to perform as it is capable of performing. dale converted and the score was Centre 9-Carolina 0. In the third quarter Adair blocked a Centre punt on the Kentuckians' 40yard line and a series of runs by Clary and Shinn put the ball on Centre's 3-yard line where the GafTney ghost carried it over in two tries. Hajek converted. md Pocket Tables JION PARLOR Columbia, S. C. e Clothes id $28.50 s?Ask to See Them >COMPANY in Street HOSPltAL ~ | Phone 9605 UBBER HEELS $1.00 ?All work guaranteed . ? DRUG STORE Drugs, Drinks and Cigars xternity Stationery Phone 3191 d College Street p For arity Gi Intramuri Teams > ^ Tenement 9-10 Battles Tenement Game; Fourteen Teams Enters Expected 1 Fighting to a scorclcss tie in the rain, Tenements 9 and 10 and Tenement 17 played the first intramural football game of the season on Melton Field Tuesday afternoon. The second game to be played between Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Pi Phi Wednesday afternoon was called off on account of bad weather. Fourteen teams have already entered with more expected to do so soon. The prospects at present indicate a good season, according to Jack Crawford physical director. Games are scheduled from now on until Christmas holidays begin. The last intramural football tournament held at the University was three years ago, nineteen teams participaLaval And W< All-A me ? ? 4 Carolina Track Team Will Meet Davidson Carolina will meet Davidson in track April 30 on Melton Field, according to the track schedule recently released at the North Carolina institution. v. a. o. ?. TWO TO ONE Saturday's visit of the Praying Colonels to Columbia marked the third gridiron clash between Carolina and Centre. In 1922, Centre drubbed the Gamecocks, 40 to 0; in 1925, the Colonels took a 20-0 beating; and the odd game went to the Kentuckians Saturday, 9 to 7. NO BAD DEFEATS Carolina has finished probably its most successful season. Only the 1921, 1925, and 1926 season records can approach the work of the 1931 team. Forgetting the Centre game for the moment, the 1931 season recorded five victories, three defeats and one tie. The victories were won over Duke, Clemson, Citadel, Furman, and N. C. State; the losses were suffered at the hands of Georgia Tech, L. S. U., and Auburn; and the tie game was played with Florida. Two of the three season defeats were by one-touchdown margins and Tech was victorious by a brace of touchdowns. 4 GOOD SEASONS In 1921, 1925, and 1920, the exceptional seasons mentioned above, Carolina's worst defeats were by one touchdown. However, 1920 recorded a 630 rout by the Naval Academy, 1922 a 12-0 defeat by Centre, 1923 a 23-3 set-back by Furman, and as late as 1929 North Carolina whipped the Gamecocks, 40-0. With the exception of four years, Carolina, since football first was played at the University, has suffered at least one crushing defeat every season, the average worst-defeat score per season easily amounting to a 30-point margin. SUCH A PIKER A recent article in the Greenville Observer urging the removal of Dad Amis aB head coach at Furman and supporting "Dizzy" McLeod, now freshman coach at the Baptist school, as Amis' successor, states that the "'fortythousand-dollar' freshman teams at Carolina have been able to do nothing with the McLeod coached ORDINARY freshman teams at Furman." Well, Mr- Radical County Weekly, far be it from the Gamecock to attempt to'explain a football team. It's just not done \ . . , ; ? . > ? f "? , rrr Stren T i ni e To jl Grid Start Play 17 To Scoreless Tie In Opening ed In Toumment With Others 'o Come In ting. Tenement 20 won the championship. The Lineups Tenements 9-10 (0) Tenement 17 (0) Parsons .. le Dantzler Wessinger It (c) Cain Boston Ig Phillips R. Floyd c Bclk Hane rg Worley Atkinson rt Hartin Cook (c) re Greene Nelson qb Galloway B. Floyd hb Parler Brown . hb Clark Zeigler fb Griffiths Substitutions: Tenement 17, Funchess; Tenements 9-10, Hutto, Oxner, Skcwes, Addison, Culbreth, Bellinger, Worrell. 3lfe Given rican Mention Senior End And Sophomore Quarterback Mentioned By Associated Press Buddy Laval, playing his final year of football at Carolina and Grayson Wolfe, stellar sophomore quarterback were named on the list of players receiving honorable mention on the 1931 Associated Press Ail-American Football team. Laval played his best year at end this season. He played his best games against L. S. U. and N. C. State. Wolfe's remarkable triple threat performance all season earned him his mention. His passing and kicking "ere outstanding and he gained ground consistently as a ball carrier. His best games were against Georgia Tech and Florida. u. 8. c. Hanley Gives Birds Praise Backfield Coach Lauds Work Of Gamecocks; Would Return For 1932 Season Lee Hanley, backfield coach at Carolina this year wrote last week a series of articles on football at the school for The Columbia Record in which he praised the fighting spirit of the entire Carolina squad. ' , He recounted the entire football season, naming the Furman and N. C. State games the ones in which the team functioned at its highest point of efficiency. He also pointed to the Duke victory with pride and called the 6-6 tie with Florida a moral victory as the Gamecocks scored in the last minute of play. Hanley will go to New York City soon to meet his brother Dick, head coach at Northwestern University. He expressed a keen desire to return to the University as backfield coach next season. u. 8. o. .these days. But, frankly, "fortythousand" seems very much of a piker's figure compared to the exhibition those sophomores (graduates of one of the freshman teams to which the Observer refers) put up against the Hurricane this year. The phrase "million-dollar" would have been much more appropriate. Also the "McLeodKcoached ORDINARY freshman teams at Furman" have had to perform on them such men as Williams, Ohlsen, Kearns, Wells, Pearson, Stewart, Smith, Robeson, Burnett, and Galiga who hail from North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, Georgia, and other states, which should remove them from the ORDINARY class. > V. . . . . . : ?V r_ ' ' ' V ' * v^^jS^WK^vi pi PP^ uous J Centre Coach Norman Reduces Squad Cage Candidates Cut To Fifteen; Gridders Expected To Report Next Week Coach A. W.. Norman is rapidly whipping the varsity basketball teams into shape for the first game. Rounding out the third week of practise, he cut the squad to fifteen meii in anticipation of the turn out * of football players who are expected to report next week. Among these arc Nolan Raby, Grayson Wolfe, Fred Hambright, Captain Curran Hughey, Harry Freeman, Bryant Adair, and Dick Shinn. Coach Norman is trying to. arrange practise games for the Bird basketeers during the Christmas holidays to put them in top form for their opening game. He expressed his belief that the Birds will have a successful season due to the influx of much new promising material from last year s frosh quint. U. 8. O. Observer Wars On "Dad" Amis A new angle on the Furman-Clem"son scoreless tie played recently in Greenville is offered by the Greenville Observer in an article which backs Dizzy McLeod to succeed Dad Amis as head coach at Furman. "The story that is going the rounds as the alibi," says the Observer, "is that the Furman team could have won had it wanted to do so but did not want to win as it believed that a victory over Clemson in the Turkey Day classic would have meant a new contract for "Dad" Amis as coach at Furman and the boys arc alleged not to want a continuance of his reign. . . . "There is feeling in the air that there will be a new.coach at Furman. Who will he be? If a prophet were not without honor save in his own country, the general guess would be that "Dizzy" McLeod would be the successor of Amis. He is the best basketball Coach in the state. He is the best freshman coach in the state. . . . He knows all the players that will be used next year and they know and trust him. The sophomore recruits of next, year's varsity will be the men " rcautte central DRUGS 1204 Ma I UNIVERSITY CO 0 The C; University Gamecock P Operated for the Students an( All Profits go into Sti If we haven't what you wt "The Center o Vbmmm???????? ?? cMilemkAz ? " EXCLU || do your cl0t1 Let us help to keep you spo cost is small and The Canteen and the G the carolina d Phone 8156 i ' 1 '' Reason ' i t ? Large Squad Working Out Annapolis, North Carolina, Duke V. M. I. And Other Teams May Be Met Many Veterans Back Watts, Brailsford, Scott And)5 Others Form Good Nucleus For 1932 Team University of South Carolina boxers working out daily under Coaches 1 Krankie DcMars and Jack Allison are,'^ preparing for a hard season which may see the Gamecock pugilists in matchcs with Annapolis, North Carolina, Duke, V. M. I., and other strong teams. The schedule hasn't been announced aai^ yet. Veterans back from fast year's state championship aggregation are Tommy Scott and Robert Rogers, bantamweights; Jimmy Brailsford, featherweight; "Red" Watts, lightweight; Bill Callahan, light heavy; and Albert McCravy, middleweight. Newcomers expected to cut a figure in this season's bouts arc Henry > McManus, heavyweight; Joe Johnson,. ' heavyweight; Henry Willard, light .? heavyweight; and Grayson Wolfe, middleweight. One of the largest squads ever to report for boxing at Carolina is out for the team. v. s. o. he coached to the freshman championship of this year." u.?. c. "Darling, in the moonlight your ;1 teeth look like pearls." "Oh, indeed I And when were you in the moonlight with Pearl?" * SHOE REPAIRING To Students Only HALF SOLES RUBBER HEELS All for $1.00 A Guarantee With Every Job SANDIFER & EPTING 1405 Assembly St. Phone 6708 NICK'S PLACE ! Best Hot Dogs In Town Opposite Y. M. C. 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