Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GAMECOCK SPORTS . CHICK SHIELS, Sports Editor Chick'en In The Rough The ole Bird has lain in the coop for about eight months now and 'tis Just about time for the bald one to make another appearance. Know ing this statemen) to be very time-worn, may we say it's mighty good to be back in the Chicken Yard. There's a lot of ground to be covered in these short limits (the Busi ness manager ALLOWED us to run a column this trip), so leave us take a hurried look at the picture here at the Bird roost ... somebody take that gua away from him, he's about to shoot his mouth off again. This afternoon at the Carolina Stadium, Notre Dame's Rex Enright will pit his charges against the wares of Bill Laval. Rex and his "T" are ready to give the hometowners a lot of football from here on in. The general clime hereabouts is not at all like the REAL football weather, but still even the most dis-interested will have to admit that the time for the "T" formation, single wing and the other attacks has arrived. This year will prove to be one of the greatest in all of Football history. With the Veterans returning and the public's interest keyed up to a peak, the stage is set for the fall festival-football. The Univer sity of South Carolina is following-right along with the rest of the country and will field a team that will be one of the finest to don the Garnet and Black. Head Coach Rex Enright and his staff of ex-foot ballers have been working hard since early August and are now on the threshold of the 1946 season. "Bossman Rex" isn't saying much about the outcome of the year. He implied the other afternoon at practice that he will meet the various opponents as they show themselves on the docket. The team as a work ing unit has plenty of spit and vinegar. Injuries have hampered the lads some but this afternoon we feel sure that they will "go." An amateur's view of the season and opposition: The Furman Alabama bout the other evening in Montgomery have given the fol lowers of the Capital City Crew something to think about. It is hard to say whether the Crimson Tide was just off key or they weren't going to show all of their wares to the visiting scouts or whether The Purple Hurricane from Greenville way is a club to be reckoned with. This is something to start a fan's mind working! Clemson's shellacking of P. C. was indicative of little. P. C. never did offer much to either Clemson or Carolina so don't, for heaven's sake, try to use this game as the medium for the winner of the Clemson-Carolina tussle. That is one game that we just don't bet on or try to call. Last year's game on Fair day could have taught many a lesson. In the press box before the two clubs engaged in a little bodily contact, you could have gotten 40 points and Carolina with no strain or pain. If the reader will re member the final score 0-0, our point is made! Right OFF of The Nest . . . the training room in the field-house has the addition of a new "whirlpool" to soothe the warriors injured anatomies. Brother Ted Metier, of Carolina track fame, and Bill Burton are the assistant foot ball trainers, as of a week ago . . . "Him" ought to be glad of this .. . "Birdog" Thornton and Crick "Special Agent X" Tallus seen work ing out on the hardwood all ready . . . Bill 'Thrasher is back on the roost ... there's help for the Basketball and Baseball Teams ... Phil .3all, commissioned from Carolina after the Clemson game last year, is again at his old guard spot ... To quote Wilton Garrison's "Sports Parade" of Sunday's Charlotte Observer . . . "Bob" Sideman, former Central fullback who returned to South Carolina last fall after a long overseas hitch,' is reported to have quit the Gamecock squad and said he was through with football" . . . Mr. Garrison, we are of the un educated clan, but would be willing to bet anything that if you would have been on the practice field, any* afternoon, you would have seen "The Duke" fully clothed in the Garnet and Black war regalia, and in the process of scrimmaging." Thousand pardons, sahib! . . . we look for Carolina to have a good basketball squad this winter ..,. there are some awfully big laddies running around the vicinity of Sumter and Green Streets . . . The home town boys from Cincinnati really pulled off a quickie on Saturday when they dropped Bo McMillan and his po tential Big Ten Champions 15-6 . .. dem's my boys .. . Don't get alarmed if you walk into the gymnasium of the women's physical education department some day and find several lassies'run ning around with Indian headdress and batting a feathered ball, for it's just a South American sport which has come to Carolina. First it was volley-ball, then tennis, later basketball and now it's Peteca! The purpose of the sport is to keep a ball from which feathers pro. trude, in the air and across a net by batting it with the hands. Any number of players may be used, and marked courts and nets are op. tional. Peteca has already proven its worth as a sport in Mexico, California, and Florida. The Brasilian game, a mere two hundred years old, has -been played in the state only a few months. So enough for this session, we shall try to have the next edition a wee bit more polished. As we drag this thing to a screeching halt, again let us say that it's really fine to be back . . . on this happy note we ree-main yours truly . .. unquote . .. adieu! Probable Lineups ... Newberry South Carblna RT--Schofield 53 K. Alexander 49 LE--Osborne 88 Thrash 52 RE--Hill 49 Catr 50 LT-Stone 55 Fusei 48 QB-Jackson 40 Hagen 25 LG.--Edens 80 Walker 68 HB-H. Corely 27 'Dunham 22 C .--.C. Corely 88 Meeks 48 HB-Rush 22 Hunnicutt 20 RG-Monts 45 Norman 51 FB--Lynch 50 Harrison 60 COLUMBIA DAIRIES #on0 BOBO CARTER, End South Carolina Bobo, who hails from Asheville, N. C., was All-Southern before the war and is back to resume his bid for high honors. He's great on the defense and a constant threat offensively. Net Prospects Look Bright Talk of football fills this au tumn air, but those of you who have stood around Carolina's two (useable) tennis courts lately know that another sport is being handled quite capably. The fact is that Carolina's tennis team is be ing groomed, although the season is some four or five months away. Followers of the net game here are very optimistic over pros pects for the coming year and have good reason to be so. As you recall, the Gamecock netters were the best in the state last spring, Well, this same winning combina tion, with two exceptions, is back to take up where it left off. To top that, up pops two more for mer number one players at Caro. lina, for good measure. Fred Atkinson, head man lasi year, is sharpening his strokes and Ben Chamberlain, number 2 of '45, is back from a summer ol "nothing but tennis" in Jndiana A. J. Smith and Harris Todd havE likewise returned to resume thei, winning ways. Gordon McLaurir and "Skinnay" McKiriney, the for. mer top spotters, have been burn, ing up the courts all summer an< should give the Gamecocks thai extra momentum necessary t4 put 'em on par with the bette> teams. To make a good story bet ter, there are other top-flighteri slanted to enroll in U.S.C., but of course, they can't be countet as "definites." At any rate, thosi named are capable of giving al opponents plenty of trouble. Partisans of the tennis team arn positive that, with proper coop eration from the school, they .wil make the Gamecock crow long an< loud, not only in the "Palmett State," but in others as well. Grid Games Scheduled In Southland Today Alabama at Tulane. Mississippi at Florida (night) Georgia Tech at Tennessee. Kentucky at Cincinnati (night) Mississippi State at Chatta nooga. Tenn. Poly at Vanderbilt. Duke at North Carolina Stati Bainbridge Navy at Maryland Virginia Tech at North Carolini V.M.I. at Richmond (night). Newberry at South Carolina. Hampden-Sydney at Virginia. MAIN Si. n en Shi Opposition Has Busy Week-End The football game this week end which holds the most atten tion of loyal Carolinians is, natur ally, the Carolina-Newberry fra cas. However, there are five other games scattered throughout the Southeast which merit some study. They are the games which feature this fall's opponents of the "Ganie cocks." Three of these teams saw action last night, with others having games scheduled this afternoon. Furman's "Purple Hurricane" matched Wofford last night in Greenville. The Garnet and Black lines up against Furman on Oc tober 12. Clemson's Tigers were pitted against Charlie Trippi and the Georgia "Bulldogs" at Athens. Last year, Georgia won, 20-0. In the other Friday night affair Cita del took the field with Presby terian College in Charleston. Up in Raleigh, N. C., this after noon the "Blue Devils" of Duke will find it hard going against a rugged N. C. State eleven. Ala bama is favored to take Tulane's measure in New Orleans today. Wake Forest invaded New Eng land last night to tackle Boston College, while the University of Maryland waits one more week be fore opening its schedule. Intramural Football Plans Being Made By Athletic Officer Inter-fraternity football should get off to a good start this season, with the great influx of grid ma terial returning to the Greeks. No plans have been formally drawn up for the sports program, but it is suggested that all fraternities wishing to participate in this pro gram contact the athletic office. Plans cannot be formed until the athletic office has some idea as to the number of neophyte organiza tions wishing to participate. An in tra-mural board will then be form ed and a schedule arranged. -6.50 Regulation Ni Here is the raincon wear in the Navy. C< - or north winds.. . protected. Treated twill with belted ba seams securely tape Men's Wear - First Columbi COLLEGE BA G. C. SA (Mani "On The Side Oj pWi' Old Timer Bird Goes Way Back PAT THRASH, End South Carolina Noted for his ability to snatch passes from "nowhere," Pat will be seen in the left end positron. A Macon, Ga., boy, he is a former All-Southern star. Thrash will add a lot of punch to the passing at tack this fall. / ivy Raincoats t the enlisted men me stormy weather, .you are warmly cotton gabardine ~k and split tail. All 1. 32-46. Floor la, S. C. 'RBERt SHOP LYLORS ager.). UJniessah* G..ll" lh. Lav -Indian Series To 1914 With'Tie Gamecocks Bowed Only Once To Foe , By KIRK SMITH A look in the ol' musty, dusty record book has produced some int,eresting dope on the Gamecock Indian football series which will be continued this afternoon at the stadium. Dates Back To 1914 The series began way back "thar" in 1914 with the Gamecocks and Indians fighting to a 18-18 tie, the only tie in the nine games they had played thus far. In '15 the boys in the Garnet and Black were victorious by a 24-0 .count. The game in '16 produced the only In dian win, a 10-0 affair. The Game cocks won in '17 by 38-0, in '20 by a 48-0 score, in '21 by a close 7-0 game and then in '28 by a 24-0 count. Series Discontinued From 1923-1943 The two teams didn't meet again 'til 1943 when our* boys came through again, by 19-7, and they did likewise in '44 by a 48-0 deal. In the nine games thus far the garnet and 'black clad lads, have rolled up 226 points to the In dian's 30. Let no one think this is indicative of a "runaway" game however, because a Laval coached team is always dangerous. ATTENTION! We're calling for fellows. The Gamecocks are going to have a cross-country team beginning practice on October 1. Coach DuPre wants all men interested to see him. We have a meet No vember 28. "Look For The Dog" MEHLMAN'S 1427 Me LEARN T COPE LA 1409 Main Street Men's Fim4 HATS -SHOES Al I' BUSINESS 5 920 Main Street COMPLETI SINKS - PENCILS -]1 DRAWIN( Moat Convei Patroni * 48-Houw * Located convenie: almen C,ameTime2:30 USC Stadium Fans To See Outcome Of "T" Under Bossman 'Rex By DON BARTON South Carolina's much talked about Gamecocks will come from W the roost today at 2:80 to open their 1946 campaign against Billy Laval's Newberry Indians. A large crowd is expected to see Coach Enright's charges make their first public appearance under the post war regime. It will be "quiz day" in Carolina Stadium, as the coaches. and fol lowers ponder over a number of brainbusters. How will Carolina's backfield handle the ticklish "T" under fire? Will this star-studded line be capable of holding its own with those of such powers as Ala bama and Duke? What I the best lineup to field against the Crim son Tide just one week from to day? Do we have a triple-threat back with ability to step up the Gamecocks' scoring punch, or do we have a one-two punch variety such as Army presents? These and many other questions will stand out as the game unravels, and they may not be answered even then. However, the mentors can use this game as a test tube in deciding what is needed to perfect a smooth ly operating combine. The Indians made their debut this year by bowing to a strong Appalachian eleven, 28-19, last Saturday night. Their coaches have spent the past several days ironing out weaknesses exposed in the Appalachian game and ex pect to enter the game today in good shape. South Carolina has been estab lished as a several touchdown fa vorite, but an upset hasn't been considered entirely out of the ques tion. Carolina coaches have not taken this game lightly and will be ready to shoot the works, if nec essary. Record Headquarters RECORD BAR 1 in Street [IE WAY ND CO. Columbia, S. C. ast Clothing ID FURNISHINGS ;UPPLY CO. Columbia LINE OF WIOTE BOOKS and PAPER dient Location ents !! se Your v'ersy Service ritly on the campus Ihe canteen.