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At Halftime By VAN NEWMAN How long are we, the students at Carolina, going to stand - for the situations that now exist at the Carolina-Clemson football game? For four consecutive years, we, our wives, and our dates have gone out to the stadium at ridiculously early hours to assure ourselves of seats, even though these seats may have been in the end zone and crowded to the point of discomfort. This year, the faculty athletic committee voted unanimously not to allow the sale of date tickets be cause there were not enough seats allocated to the student section by the athletic committee of the Board of Trustees to accommodate the wives and dates of the students. The students, themselves, will have to sit in the aisles and be pushed down to the goal line to cram into.the designated area. Students are the factors that go to make up a school. Their spirit is the school's spirit. How can we students generate any creative spirit or interest when our rights are being violated in such an outrageous fashion! In the past, the students have appeared even to be helpless to fight the well-organized, deeply-implanted machine that is in control. These conditions do not exist merely in the distribu tion of football seats. Carolina is a tool in the hands of many political mechanics, who use or discard this tool, according to his personal need for it. Every upper classman, at least, must know this by now. This is one time we, the students, are not the ones lack ing. We have tried to back the team. We have tried to yell eve when we were crammed together so closely that a yell could hardly escape our bodies. We have responded to requests of the administration and student organizations. Now all we are asking is that we be g v in ogh seats at a football game involving our team at our home stadium to accommodate us, our wives, and our dates. But are we getting our request? In the past, even gate-crashing and other tactics have been resorted to in desperation by the students to insist upon their rights. Such occurrences are black marks against the student body and are undesirable in every way. But the public, in their condemnation of such acts of violence, should condemn the causes behind them rather than the students. The students saw the situa tion as their team, their game, and, rightfully, their seats. How can the educators of the state hope to instill the de sirable ideals of education in the students when conditions such as these are allowed to exist in the state university? The blame for this situation does not lie at the feet of Dr. Penney and his faculty committee, Dick Ander son, nor Coach Enright. The football team, needless to say, is also powerless. The athletic committee of the Board of Trustees is appar ently at the top of the ladder for the student representa tives to climb to see. This was their task this week despite the admirals protests against it. Trhis column has a number of suggestions that might be investigated as solutions to the problem. (1) Students should be given more and better seats by the committee in the original allocation. (2) The student section should be satisfactorily provided for before any other tickets are sold to the Clem son game. (3) A (late section should be provided for the Clemson game with all seats, whether in the (late section or the regular section, reserved to eliminate the useless practice of going to the game hours before the kick off time. Seating arrangement would be in class order with seniors getting preference. (4) The students should be allowed representation at the meeting designed for the allocation of the student section. (5) The student committee should confer with the ath letic committee of the Board of Trustees now while the issue is still a burning one and again in the spring when next fall's plans are made. The students must act if this problem is to be solved to their satisfaction. At present, it is a pathetic situa tion that the students at Carolina cannot get seats for themselves and their dates when their team plays its biggest game in the home stadium. LINEMAN OF THE WEEK Phil Alexander, the smaller half of the Alexander beef trust at 235 pounds, wins the second selection of the Caro lina lineman of the week fo'r his smashing play against Tulane in New Orleans last weekend. Big Phil his been one of the biggest hustlers on the Caro lina squad this season and has played outstanding ball in all three games. He worked out consistently during the sum mer months and' was in the best shape of his career when he reported for practice this fall. Last year, he was the only Gamecock to be chosen in the draft by a professional team. Biddies ] Strickland's Ai Despite Strong Bishop Strickland continued to yards gained. His 236 yards are a competitor, Red Harrison, who rem4 dkspite the injuries that permitt( against. Tulane. In spite of the strong Tulane d average dropped but slightly. Har 7.6 yards per try while Strickland Harry DeLoache has picked up I of 5.6 and Steve Wadiak has carri, average. Following these leaders c tries, Jack Couch with 49 yards in has run 5 times for 16 yards. Bo Hagen continued his fine woi pleting 5 of 9 passes attempted Hagen's kicking also was good. R out of immediate trouble when t] own goal line. Dick Fagan caught 2 of Hagen the other 3 were equally distribul and Jim Pinkerton. Season's rushing statistics and the Tulane game are: SEASON'S RUf Times Rushing Red Harrison, fb:......... 16 Bishop Strickland hb. 33 Steve Wadiak, hb. 11 Harry DeLoache, hb. 19 Gus Alien, hb. - 10 Jack Couch, hb. . ....... 12 Bayard Pickett, hb . 5 RUSHING IN ' Times Rushing Bishop Strickland 10 Red Harrison 1 Gus Allen 3 Jack Couch 3 Steve Wadiak 2 *Bo Hagen 5 *Pat Vella . .. 2 *Losses result of fading back t, PASSING IN 'I Attempl Bo Hagen 9 Harry DeLoache I Pat Vella ... . . 2 PASS RECEIVING Dick Fagan. ...... Red Wilson.................. aus Allen .................... Fim Pinkerton ................. Reopening Date Of Swimming Pool Released By Chase The swimming pool which has been closed since last month for repairs, will reopen in about two weeks, it was announced by John A. Chase, Dean of Administration. this week. The pool was closed two weeks before school started because of yracks in the roof. 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Anne Hlott University Book Store Lose Offe ierage High Tulane Line pace Carolina ball carriers in total Imost twice the total of his 'nearest kined in.second place with 120 yards d him to run the ball only once efense, Strickland's and Harrison's rison still leads in this respect with follows closely with 7.1. 13 yards in 19 .tries for an average ed 11 times for 73 yards and a 5.7 ome Gus Allen with 50 yards in 10 12 tries, and Bayard Pickett, who ek in the passing department, com in the Tulane game for 58 yards. epeatedly he kicked the Gamecocks ey were backed up against their 's passes good for 27 yards while :ed among Red Wilson, Gus Allen, rushing and passing statistics for ;HING TOTALS Yards Yards Gained Lost Average 120 5 7.6 236 0 7.1 73 9 5.7 113 5 5.6 50 4 4.6 49 5 3.7 16 0 3.2 PULANE GAME Yards Yards Net Gained Lost - Gain 66 0 66 5 0 5 6 3 3 3 1 2 3 1 2 2 18 -16 0 17 -17 D pass and not being able to spot ULANE GAME A Completed Intercepted Gain 5 2 58 0 1 0 0 0 0 IN TULANE GAME Number Yards Received Gained 2 27 1 13 . 1 12 .. . . . . . . 1 6 TWO SWE CO1LLEGE ARROW CANDY STRIPUS WIDE$PRE AD "SUSSE X" COLLAR Practical and good Iooldng additi shirts are beeutifully tailored In f celors. 3oth the soft widespread "Susse; short point soler ese particular fa 4ee4hm sen e your favorite Ar I is ' .N'WE I E KANDKE nsive Bat Athletic's Star Changes Glove For Textbo6ks Lou Brissie, 28-year-old. pitch ing star of the Philadelphia Ath letics, temporarily laid down his glove at the end of the baseball season and picked up his books to resume college studies Interrupted by the war. He has enrolled as a junior un der .the G-I Bill at Erskine Col lege, Due West, S. C. Before the war, he was a student at Pres byterian College but he enlisted in1 the army in December, 1942, in the middle of his junior year. Before he went overseas, Bris sie pitched for Camp Croft, S. C.,I averaging 20 strikeouts a game while winning 25 and losing none. In the gruelling Italian cam paign Lou received shrapnel wounds in the hands, shoulders, legs, and feet. Bones in both his legs were smashed. Then came a succession of hospitals, the last one a few miles from Philadelphia. As soon as he could walk, Bris sie made his way to Shibe Park, home of the Athletics and asked Connie Mack for a chance to try out for the team. Brissie is a big man-6 feet, 5 -inches, and 220 pounds, but then he was a wreck. His legs were broomstick thin, but he kept trying, supporting him self on one crutch and throwing with his free arm. Connie Mack couldn't say no. In 1947, when Brissie's condition was greatly improved, he was sent to the Savannah Indians of the Sally League, where he led the league in pitching with 25 wins against 5 losses. In 1948 with the Athletics, Lou Brissie won 14 games and ranked close to the top in strikeout. He has proved himself a major leaguer in every sense. SAY ... "I saw it in THE GAMECOCK" ARROW SOLID COLORS SHORT POINT "K ENT" COLL AR sns to your wardrobe, these Arrow no broadcloth and come In several i" collar and the non-wlj "!e.ni! vorites of college men. ow storel mnd TIES RCHESi& * SPORTS SuiEtS tle To U 4-rg Lead Unt East Tt By LLOYD H The "Biddies" will be odds-o "cubs" from Clemson when th Field Wednesday night, as a i show that the Gamecock yearli the "Tar Babies" from the 1 UNC came out the winner, b teams had put on the best of in many a moon. Led by the accurate passing of Quarterback John Boyle and scoot er-footed Tommy Woodlee, the Biddies led in the game 26-21 with less than two minutes to play. Trailing 14-13 at the half the Biddies fought back to gain the lead 19-14 in the third quarter. UNC again went ahead but Chuck Prexioso crashed through from the one to send the yearlings from South Carolina into the lead. But with less than thirty seconds re niaining "Skeeter" Hesmer, 175 pound back from Roanoke, Vir ginia, passed to Hilliard. Knight, 185-pound end from Charlotte, N. C., to preserve the game for the favored "Tar Babies." Boyle, a six-four, 215-pounder and the 160-pound Woodlee per formed like veterans in the Biddie backfield. Woodlee scored twice, the second time on a pass from Boyle that covered 70 yards. Coach Rex Enright last month named Boyle as his probable 1949 quarterback. His performance Friday gave every indication that C06BURN The Business Men Choice at Quality ar Origina Try One of Our And You'll Be 1317 SUA Next Door to I Tv It Team captain ... and behind in must improve or he won't be elig What a spot for a champion. 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