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So s sam an Ve &m GAMECOCKS * By JIMMIE HILL * * We Keep Talking About Soss He's done it again. This time, it's the highest honor of them all. Of course, I'm talking about Carolina's great center, Louis Sossa mon's being chosen on the second team of the Associated Press All American team. After having made All-State and All-Southern, we kinda thought that Soss might ease up and let a few of the other centers in the country have a say, but last week, the whispered rumor began that Soss was on the All-American team. It so developed that this was not merely a rumor, but fact, but as the Associated Press announcement was not released until after press time for the Gamecock, we could not mention it then. So, following all the other sports writers in action, but leading them all in warmth, I want to extend to Louis Sossamon the congratulations of the entire student body-a great football player, a great student body president . . . . a great guy. Sossamon's choice as the second greatest center in the nation is doubly significant if 'you review the facts. First place went to Domnonovitch of the victory laden, bowl participating Alabama Crimson Tide. Other centers from other teams with impressive records were in the race for positions on the All-American squad, but from Carolina, smarting from a season of defeat after defeat, boast ing only one win and one great tie, the sports writers of the Associ ated Press picked Sossamon for his sheer ability and spirit. They picked right. By the way, congratulations to Soss and all the boys for their game for South Carolina in the Carolina's Bowl, and when the Blues run into the Greys on the 28th, they're going to get it hard from the Gamecocks there. That's not exactly a prediction; that's becoming an established fact. * Basketeers Start Hot The Birds uncovered some of the haze that has covered basketball and its prospects by opening up a team that made Erskine look like high schools Monday night and playing rings around said team to the tune of 66-29. At last coming into their own in intercollegiate competition. fresh men starred ior the Gamecocks in this first stunning smash victory of the season, of which, I have no doubt, there will be more. Henry Martin, a freshman who starred last year on the Columbia High School team, led the senring for the night, racking up, 11 points. Pat Thrash, Bobby Giles, and Furman Riddle also held up frosh honors on the court. Riddle scuied 10 points as did converted-center, Brogden. This game, scheduled at the last minute, and coming as a surprise more or less to the student body, seems to have settled two ques tions. First, that the Birds will be able to do a creditable job at basketball this year, a fact that has been hazy until now, and second, that freshmen have a definite part in varsity athletic competition in these times when manpower is so short ... a fact that the Southern Conference finally awoke to recognize, but which one Duke and Uni versity of North Carolina seem to yet fail to appreciate. I hope sin cerely that we meet and beat hell out of those two teams. The rest of the schedule for the courts is at this writing not completed, however, I have hopes that it will be in time for inclusion on the page in this issue. It is scheduled for completion some-time this week. * Intras . . . Good Games . . . Confusion The reports received by way of the grapevine seem to indicate that intramural football is getting more interest, attention and good compe tition than it has in the past, which is good. More students are partici pating and more good natured rivalry is apparent in conversation and in the games than at any time since I've seen the competition. There. are some faults which are probably unav.oidable in view of the coverage of the program this year. One of the most apparent is the lack of clear cut schedules for the teams. Often, a team appears on the field and fails to find any opponents the opposition not having heard of the game. This is of course much the fault of the teams in not checking with the Athletic Office, but It is to some measure due to the not too clear methods of scheduling the clashes. Of course, the virtues of the system used at present is that each team gets to play at least two games, regardless of their ability, and bodies are exercised, which is primarily the reason for the program. However, there are other methods by which this may be accomplished without so much confusion. One of these is used in forensics, and might very well be taken for our * intramurals. By this method, all teams play all the time, and no team is eliminated. Shortly I'll try to outline the essentials of this type of scheduling. Two games are played by each team, opposition picked arbitrarily. At the end of these two games by all, a check is made of their outcomes. 631 .Main St. C'lum&bia. .S & * VISIT@e GAYDEN BROS. CIGAR STORES 1248 Main Street :-: 1405 Main Street Fountain Lunch Service JACK ULMER, INC. *REALTORS @ REAL ESTATE - RENTALS - INSURANCE - LOANS 1217 Washington Street :-: Columbia, S. C. * PHONE 22-123 Exclusive Agents for "Another House That Jack Built" M ak Carolina Quintet Routs Erskine In Basketball Opener Victorious Gamecocks Meet Duke Devils At Asheville, N. C., Tonite Springing from almost obscurity in to glory, the University of South Carolina Basketball team showing strong offensive machinery, crushed the quintet from Erskine College on Monday night by the score of 66-29, and stand ready to face the Blue Devils from Duke in Asheville, N. C. tonight. Paced in the scoring by a freshman, Henry Martin, formerly of Columbia High School, the squad of Gamecocks experienced for the first time, frosh on the varsity, and the combination proved effective. Pushing Martin, who scored ii points, were Furman, Riddle and Brogdon, the latter a con verted-from-guard center. Be;:'.es Martin, and Riddle, Pat Thrash, and Bobby Giles were the other freshmen playing in the game. Each played a game which clearly showed the value of first year men on the varsity squad. Bonner and McDill, the Erskine guards, played outstanding ball for the losers. Bonner tied Martin for high score of the game with his eleven points while McDill swished eight points through the loop. The Birds, though they knew they had played a game, were never in serious trouble throughout the even ing. Their power was evident and reservc straja -,&as I plcalul. The Blue Devib, tonight, are an untried, unplayed team for this sea son, however, the reputation of Eddie Cameron, the Duke coach for over 13 years, is one to be respected as his teams have always been potent threats in the conference. With the new opportunity of play ing freshmen, against which Duke voted in the Conference meeting, the Birds go well manned into the contest. Ten. 11-12 Scores 6-0 Win Over KA Rip Turner Swivels Off Tackle 95 Yds. To Tally Three games were scheduled for this week's intramural program. On December 15 Ten. 19-20 lost its game wvith Ten. 2-3 by forfeiture, Pi KA's meet with KS wvas can celled by a combination snowv and rain. This battle wvas slated for Wednesday. Ten. 10 and KA were scheduled to play Thursday. Since last wveek's edition only one game has been played. However, it was a rousing scrap. The Intra mural League's defending chanm pions, Tren. 11-12, met a strong chal lenge from KA's powverful aggre gation. Ten. 11-12 squeezedl out a 6-0 victory on a blindingly rainy and muddy field. The game was worth seeing al though the weather was wet and chilly. The climax of the game came when Ten. 11-12's Rip Turner slashed offtackle and scored on a 95 yard run. Outstanding players for the los ing KA's were Jack Tobias in the line and Harley Stevens in the back field. Others turning in fine p)er formances for the KA's were Coop er McEachern and Johnny Dieter in the line, and Weston Dickson, Rut Osborne, and Owens Killings worth in the backfield. Ten. 11-12 lists eleven outstand ing players: Kennerly and Kirk, ends; Boyleston and Hillman, tack les; Welbern and Kahaley, guards; Green, center; Allen, quarterback; Al Faress, fullback; Joe Faress, halfback; and Rip Turner, halfback. Bill Milner, who filled a guard berth on the varsity squad, is the successful coach of the champions. Future Intramural League foot ball games will be affected by the coming of the Naval Pre-Flight School. Intramparal players whose classes are switched to afternoon hours may find it difficult to play. Nevertheless, the Athletic Office announces that the program will be continued as planned. Intramural basketball teams will be organized upon the completion of the football season. The Pre Flight School will have its own athletic program under supervision of its own offices. e s Al Carolina's A LOUIS SC Bird Stars Are In Post Season Games Four Gamecock football players have seen post-season action and one, All-American Louis Sossamon, is slated for one more game before throwing in his helmet and pads for good. " u 3 aJbd i iiiler,luuiVU le-I brooks and Roskie represented South Carolina in the annual Carolina's Bowl game played recently in Green ville, S. C. Witnesses of the game report that the USC boys played truly inspired football, each more than living up to expectations. Sossamon was hailed as playing one of the best games of his career, while the pass defense and line plunging offense of Roskie was evidence enough of his value. Milner and Middlebrooks, Carolina's stalwarts in the line proved their worth both on offense and defense in the big game which South Carolina won. Next on the list for Soss is a trip to Alabama where he will play on a team picked from both the Southern md the Southeastern Conferences as the "Greys" against a northern squad n~amed the "Blues". The game will be played on the 28th >f this month, and proceeds will go to charity. After playing outstanding ball for three years' this wvill be the last lame for Sossanmon. Gym Affects One's Mind-Doesn't It? There is no certainty as yet as to what the new addition of a Naval Pre-Flight school may mean to the physical education classes, but the physical ed's effect on students is truly amazing. That is definitely the opinion of a Gamecock reporter who walked into Tenement ten to find the inmates thereof busily engaged in snap-ups, backward and forward rolls, neck springs and all the others of the gym category on the bare, hard, floor. "Makes us try harder, if we know we're going to hit the floor if we flop", was the expla nation. Some people and their am bitions. Foi SP "DA GOOD I 1323 Taylor Stee' P All Il-American | SSAMON Birds Announce Cage Schedule The Gamecocks have recently an nounced their schedule for the coming basketball season. Besides the games with Erskine on Monday of this week and the one with the Duke Blue Devils. tonight. the schedule npnoarq below. Uncertainty as to transportation and other college participation in basket ball this year has delayed the com pletion of the schedule until now. Following is the schedule for the University Gamecock basketball team. The schedule is subject to change, and will be reprinted every week for stu dents' information. Jan. 5--P. C. at Columbia Jan. 9-Ga. Tech in Atlanta Jan. 12-Georgia in Columbia Jan. 16-Davidson at Davidson Jan. 28-College of Charleston at Columbia Feb. 2-Citadel at Columbia Feb. 4-Davidson at Columbia Feb. 5--Clemson at Columbia Feb. 6-Furman at Greenville Feb. 13-Clemson at Clemson Feb. 15--P. C. at Clinton Feb. 19--Wake Forest at Wake For est Feb. 20--U. N. C. at Chapel 111ll Feb. 26--College of Charleston ini Charleston Feb. 27-Citadel at Charleston TH E CAROLINA LIFE INSURANCE CO. It is better to have it and notineed it than to need it and not have it. Home Office: Columbia, S. C. Columbia Office Supply Co. PR INTING Commercial Stationery - Office Equipment 1112 LADY STREET PHONE 5163 STU DENTS! excellent work on your laundry leave It at the cacn give you one day service and ECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS LAUNDRY .AUNDRY" -Ame Picked By Nat! Writers For Se Phi Eps Still Lead In Bowling League Phi Kaps Close In Sindler Bowls Highest Game; Garnet Racks Up Top Set In Fifth Week Chuck Garnett, of SAE, bowled 'em over left and right last Wednes day to mark up the highset set, 345, and second highest game, 128, in the Interfraternity Bowling League this week. The league meets every Wed nesday afternoon at Capitol Bowling Centre. This week's highest game was rolled by Alan Sindler, Pi Lambda Phi colorbearer, who hit the ceiling at [47 pins. While Sindler was taking individual honors his team amassed the highest total pins, 1,223. The pace-setting Phi Epsilon Pi re tained its leadership although it suf fered defeat in two of its games with the lowly Pi KA in the day's biggest upset. The standings through this week are: Team Won Lost Phi Epsilon Pi .......... 13 5 Phi Kappa Sigma 12 6 Sigma Alpha Epsilon ii 7 Phi Sigma Kappa ....... .o 8 Pi Lambda Phi .. 9 Pi Kappa Phi ...... .... .. 6 12 Pi Kappa Alpha . .... 6 12 Alpha Tau Omega - 5 13 Kappa Sigma ......... ... 4 14 Meetings of the Interfraternity Bowling League will be discontinued for the next two weeks due to the Christmas holidays. Interfraternity bowling will be resumed after the holidays and will continue every Wed nesday afternoon until the champion ship has been determined. The meeting this week was the fifth regular match play in the series. Style Headquarters Fo MAYO'S O4NLz \ TONL SO TILL XMAS 100%/ All-Wool SPC 1000/ All-Wool SLA OPEN EVENINGS Page Five rican ion's Sports hcond Team Choice From Losing Team Makes Honor Impressive Louis Sossamon, Carolina's great All-State, All-Southern center is now All-American. The Associated Press poll for the 1942 All-American squad, released re cently, and considered the most re liable of all A-r All-American polls, places Sossamon as the second team center, whereby declaring him, through AP sports writers the coun try over, as the second best center in the nation. The first team selection lists Dom nonovitch of Alabama as center. Sossamon was picked from a team whose record for the current season has been one of only one win and one tie, that with the Volunteers of Tennessee. Picked from a team with such a record makes his choice doubly im pressive as men were considered from schools whose win-lose record was much more impressive. It is con sidered likely that Sossamon's per formance against Domnonovitch in the Carolina-Alabama game had a great deal to do with his being chosen. Sossamon's impressive record, throughout his three years on the Gamecock team, has been such that at the beginning of the current sea son, the University officials and sports writers of this region considered him definitely All-American. imlea as an All-American candi date throughout the year, Soss was no disappointment to those who turn ed out to see him in action. He was especially brilliant on de fensive play all year, providing a tough plug where he backed up the line, and stopping many a runner when the Gamecocks were hard pressed on their own few-foot line. r Better Dressed Men 0* PO0** oTpTo. RT COAS $2.5 CK :$.9;t' $.9 AIN ST. UNTL C l$MA