Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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With~L~ Kirnrbyir * *~.* U~ l Y JOB IBY 1 II . .' . ... Krowiug With Kirby BY JOE KIRBY MY PROSPECTS OF CROWING I can bat out a pretty fair game of ping-pong, can answer some of the questions asked me by the profs some of the time, and in a pinch I can even whip up a pan of fudge, but when it comes to prognosticating the pigskin proficiency of eleven oversized guys in moleskins, I am a dud-but definitely. However as any dope can plainly see from the name of this colyum, I am an optimist. Maybe this job is driving me screwy already, because Coach Enright's hopefuls have been labeled with numerous and sundry appellations, not the least dolorous of which are "gloom" and "if" teams. Meanwhile the thin red line grew thinner with the departure of sopho more guards Karuba and Ropeleski and last year's regular center and end Ken Webb and Fred Snell. But as I said before I am an optimist, although I am at a loss to know why. Ever since I returned last week with visions of a peace ful and contended senior year I have been living the life of a hobo of the lower class. Why, I had to jot this stuff down on scraps of paper picked up out of the gutter with a pencil borrowed from a blind man. As a matter of fact I am so mad at the W. P. A. for invading the sacred environs of the campus and turning me out on the streets that I am thinking of joining the Jeffersonian Democrats and voting for Wendell Willkie. Besides, what could be worse than trying to fill two sports pages when the oniy thing going on is football and the first game still three weeks in the offing? TOUGHER THAN A TEN CENTS STEAK Breathers on this year's varsity schedule are as scarce as clothing salesmen in a nudist colony. The truth of the matter is that there aren't any. The Citadel appears to be the easiest team that the Gamecocks are slated to meet, but if you don't believe the Bulldogs (they've changed it back again) are tough in Charleston, Walter Johnson and Dizzy McLeod will be glad to put you wise. To see how really tough the Gamecock slate is, just contrast it with that of Clemson, who meets only a couple of foes worthy of its steel. The Birds open with Georgia, then take on Duquesne, Clemson, and Penn State in that order. The Bengals have three claw sharpeners in Presbyterian, Wofford, and North Carolina State College before meeting Carolina in the annual state fair classic. None of this trio should force the Clemson machine out of low gear, while the Birds will have to upset the dope bucket to go into the fair game with a victory under their belts. Georgia will provide the toughest opening game in Gamecock foot ball history. Last year the Bulldogs from Athens were a better than fair country ball club, but reinforced this year by the greatest freshman outfit in the country, they should be close to tops in Dixie. Duquesne, the next stop on the Gamecock schedule, is sure of a place in the country's top ten or fifteen this year, barring unlikely upsets. Last year the Dukes soundly thumped Carnegie Tech and their fellow townsmen the Pittsburg Panthers with a sophomore ball club. This year those sophs will be bigger and better juniors. As for Clemson-well, we all know too darn much about them already. Among the other tough teams with which the Gamecock's are sched uled to do battle are Penn State, Kansas State, and Wake Forest. The Nittany Lions had one of their best teams in a decade last season and look for improvement. Kansas State had a fine ball club also but a coaching shakeup in late spring isn't calculated to do the Wildcats any good. The Wake Forest Demon Deacon sophomores that whipped the first Enright coached team in a 20-19 thriller are back again en masse as seniors. Add in Polanski, the pounding Pole who was the country's leading scorer last season, and you have a potent potion of gridiron poison. LOCAL BOYS AND THEN SOME One of the first policies that Coach Enright announced, when he be came head coach here, was his intention to get more South Carolina boys on the football squad. Anyone looking over the freshman football roster could scarcely doubt the sincerity of this statement, for 26 of the 31 boys that reported for the initial practice session are native sons, and there are only about three who hail from above the Smith and. Wesson line. The fact that most of the boys on the Gamecock squads for the past several years have not been representative of this section, has been one of the chief bones of contention among alumni and supporters. Doubt less such a complete fulfillme.it of this policy will clear up much of the discontent of the Bird roosters and lead to a fuller and more hearty cooperation between alumni and athletic association. Let it hereby be known that this corner heartily approves of this policy and feels that it is a forward step. JOTTINGS-Rock Stroud, former Gamecock football and baseball luminary, batted 376 for Green Bay, a B class ball club, in his first sea son of pro ball...,The recent Green Bay Packer-All-Star football fracas was merely a renewal of the Clemson-Carolina rivalry to Palmetto fans. I,arry Craig, former all-southern flankman at Carolina, represented the Gamecocks In the Paeker lineup, while Banks McFadden did the honors for the. Bengals in the ranks of the all-stars.. .J. B. "Pinhead" Ilenson and George Knauck, former Gamecock athletes have been ecepted as cadets in th, army air corps.4..Glenn Rice, Gamecock full bsek, Is ntow booling them high and far with the aid of his new built-in specs. ..*2lp" *Hanna, erstwhile Gamecock guard, was on the verge of eetiering tschool until his better half turned thumbs down... In answer sojpiy queries...tnStasica, freshman flash from Gordon Military, . imt he eligible for frds#h bbotbafl. at Would. b'4: This is the first string lineup Coach Rex Enright would trot out on. the field if his Gamecocks were called upon for gridiron duty tomorrow. This tentative lineup may be' changed any day now, as several re serves have showed up well in early practice sessions and are menacing their more favored brothers for first line of duty. Alex Urban, second string end. especially, is showing up well at his flank post, and may win a starting berth before the opening battle with Georgia. Ken Roskie, reserve back, also has done some good work in the Notre Dame "T" and may crash the starting party before the initial whis tle. But here are the big boys of this week: Left to right: John Leitner, Rule In Pass Striking Ineligeble Man Is Revised Coach Rex Enright Explains Measure To Kiwanis Club "The most important of the few football rules changes is that con cerning a forward pass striking an ineligible receiver," explained Rex Enright, Gamecock football mentor, to the Columbia Kiwanis club this week. The old rule provided that the offensive team lost the ball at the spot of the preceding down. The new rule is divided into two sections. The fnrst provides for a fifteen yard penalty if the ineligible man is struck beyond the line of scrimmage. The second part pro. vides that if an ineligible receiver is struck by a passed ball on or before the line of scrimmage, the pass is ruled incomplete and the offensive team just loses a down. Other rules changes provide that the diameter of the cleats on foot ball shoes shall be reduced, giving the grid warriors a firmer footing, and that the passer may use his hands to defend himself from tacklers after he gets rid of the ball. Another change is in the kicking of a loose ball. The new rule provides that if it is kicked deliberately, the other team gets the ball. If in the judgment of the officials, the kicking is accidental there is no penalty. Linesmen who unintentionally rough kickers on quick kicks or kicks de veloping from running plays will no longer be penalized. Coach Enright believes these few changes are all for the best and will make football a better game to watch and a safer game to play. Mrs. Shealy's BFISTAam SANDWI9HES There's None So - Good Face Geoi ;~ Sophs Spell Trouble For Opposition Gridiron aces Ken Roskie and An gelo DeMario, coming into the lime light of varsity football from the un sung ranks of the bohunks presen two widely divergent fields of en deavor. DeMario spends his summer blitzkrieging the tall timbers of Mich igan, while Roskie in his spare tim< tickles the keys of a piano. They feature crew haircuts and will to wvin opposing linemen wil soon see plenty of trouble cominj when one of the two get hold of th< pigskin. Both are speed merchants and triple theatres, being able to punt pass, and run like-, well, they ar4 pretty fast. These two guys from above th~ Mason and Dixon line keep in shap during the hot summer months ver: differently. Angelo DeMario for th past few summers has helped hi: father chop down the great trees o Michigan. Ken Roskie is in the habi of devoting his summers to semi-pr< baseball in Illinois, but was knocke< out of this the past summer-by scho lastic difficulties at summer school. "Just who in the world are they: Never heard of them before." Tha is the statement of many guys wh< are just beginning to hear about Ros kie and DeMario. Last year the: bohunked, and bohunks just don't ge their name in print no matter hov good they are. The bohunk yea: passed by and neither of these tw< GIFTS OF ] For Ev At Prices All C Hai OUR GR1!ETING CARD D: Stationery Ani 1312 MAilN STREEZT rgia If The 'M sophomore end; Bobo Carter, sopho more tackle; Joe Hatkevitch, senior guard; Louis Sossamon, sophomore center; Joe Krivonak, junior guard; Bill Applegate, junior tackle, and Stan Nowak, senior end. Second row: Bill Lowry, senior halfback; Dutch Elston, junior quar terback, and Harvey Blouin, junior halfback. At the tail end of this list, but at the head of the team is DeWitt Ar rowsmith, junior fullback. Enright is worried about the pres ence of so many sophomores in the first string forward wall. The first year men have the ability and build, but they also have those first year boners to pull before they can be counted on for capable varsity ser vice. Norton And Grygo Weather Storm At Edisto Beach Park Footballers Stay On Storm Swept Island After Cottagers Leave ~f two University of South Caro lina gridmen, Kirt Norton, quarter back, and Al Grygo, lefthalf, can weather the opposition as well as the recent Charleston hurricane, the Gamecocks ought to go places this season. Norton and Grygo were lifeguards at Edisto island during the big blow that swept out of the South Atlantic. They saw 107 cottages wiped out by wind and tide, helped the coast guard move vacationists to safety and then stayed on the island to weather the gale. Their cottage was one of two in a row of six that didn't crumble before the gale. The greatest worry to the two Gamecock backfield men were the "galley nippers", the huge mosquitoes that followed in the wake of the hurricane. "Birds" got injured in the practice sessions. Last spring promise of what was to come was given when both broke into the first string eleven. This fall DeMario is running at first string halfback while Roskie is on the second quartet. )ISTINCTION erybody an Affor~d To Pay !CPARLTMENT IS 00OMPLETE Office Supplies PHONm 7tt03 y Played Spirit Of Gi Pleases Co4 Question Mark Grygo's Name Im BAM Club Gets Off To Flying Start In 1940 1,000 Members Pledge Full Support Of Season's Activities It looks as if the Bam Club is get ting off to a flying start for this year. Already over one thousand new members have pledged their sup port to this worthy organization. The Buck A Month club has many ser'vices to be offered to its members. This year a BAM section will be re served for all BAM members at all football games and other athletic en gagements. Preference to tickets, free admission to a football movie to be shown the following week after each game, weekly news,letters from Coach Enright to all members, and information service regarding the University will be at their disposal. One significant fact about this club, every person is eligible to become a member. Many students, faculty members and office workers on the campus are members and consequent ly enjoy the services rendered by the club in exchange for their loyalty. Most of the members come from South Carolina, however, the club has numerous members in other states, some as far as Maryland. 'Cock-Tiger Ducats Sold To 15 Yard Line All Home Games Show Big Advance Sale From Whitey RawI, manager of University ticket sales, comes the word that ducats for the Carolina Clemson clash are going fast. The only seats now remaining to be sold are those between the 15 yard lines and the end zones. All tickets for the fair classic will be priced at $2.40. Tickets for the homecoming game with Georgia are also being disposed of rapidly, and few admissions to the November 9 game with Kansas State have already been paid. Welb Greater Univ, AN] Greater Colu: May you equip y service and greater having come here. Silver's 5 Tomorrow amecocks. ach Enright Entered Behind Possible Lineup "We won't know what we have un til after the first game, but the spirit is good," said Head Coach Rex En right of his injury ridden squad, which at the end of nearly three weeks of practice, is down to 37 players. Thus far the offensive work of the Gamecocks has been nothing to write home about, but the- Birds are show ing plenty of pepper in their work outs. With the opening game two weeks off, the Birds should still have time to polish off some of their rough edges before showing thqr wares to the homecoming crowd. The condition of Al Grygo, who has been kept out of most of the rough work because of high blgod pressure, is still doubtful, but the junior speed merchant looked sensa tional in sparking the varsity attack against the freshmen in Wednesday's scrimmage. If Al can return' to the gridiron wars in anywhere near his sophomore form, he should pro vide the much needed spark to the Bird offense. The guard and end spots are pro viding such a problem that the Bird brain trusters are all developing cases of insomnia. Sophomores Karuba and Ropeleski converted freshman backs who had been counted on to bolster the guards, departed soon after practice began. This week Fred Snell, who played a lot of end for the Gamecocks last season, and Ken Webb, who held down the first string pivoi post, departed for parts un known. Wednesday, the 'cocks showed a great deal of improvement over Sat urday's fracas with the frosh, and unleashed five scoring plays during the afternoon. The blocking of guards Krivonak and Hatkevich and the glue fingered manner in which ' big "Jeep" Urban was pulling in passes must have made the brain trusters sleep better. If Carolina was meeting the Bull dogs tomorrow, this is the line-up that would take the field: ends, John Leitner and Stan Nowak; tackles, "Bobo" Carter and Bill Applegate; center, Sossamon; guards, Krivonak. and H-atkevich; and backs, Lowry,: Blouin, Elston, and Arrowsmith. De Mario, Roskie, Urban, Patrone, Middlebrooks cannot yet be counted out and at any rate will furnish the Birds with some first class replace ments. ersity inbia -ourself- for greater happiness by your k 1Oe Stave