The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 29, 1948, Page Page Eight, Image 8
At Halftime
By VAN NEWMAN
Sports Editor
It was Thanksgiving day in 1947 and a highly-favored
Wake Forest football team had been rudely pushed around
*by the unheralded South Carolina Gamecocks for over three
quarters of play. That was the year, you know, that Wake
Forest had such a potent passing attack and, supposedly,
the best pair of guards in the Southern Conference.
It was the fourth quarter and the Wake Forest of
fensive had suddenly become the precision unit it was
supposed to be. The Demon Deacons were moving to
wards the Carolina goal steadily and were threatening
to wipe out the slim 6-0 Gamecock lead.
Then the Carolina defense stiffened. On third down Wake
Forest failed to gain and it was fourth down for the Deacons
inside the Carolina 20. Ed Dew, stocky, 190-lb. guard from
Sumter, was apparently roughed up on the play and seemed
very angry with the entire Wake Forest team in general.
The Wake Forest tailback faded back for a fourth
down pass, spotted his receiver, but-Ed Dew, disre
garding the reputation of the Wake Forest guards op
posite him, broke through the line and smacked the
Deacon passer down before he could get rid of the ball.
Carolina forthwith gained possession of the ball and were
not threatened again.
In September of this fall when Coach Rex Enright of the
Gamecocks hung out his crying towels, they were drenched
with his tears over a shortage of good guards on this year's
squad. He bemoaned the loss of Neil Allen and Max Walker,
the first-string guards on the 1947 team.
As the season progressed, however, Ed Dew, the de
fensive hero of the '47 Wake Forest game, developed
rapidly. In the big Clemson game last Thursday, he
combined with co-captain Al Faress to give the Game
cocks a pair of guards that more than held their own
against Clemson's Frank Gillespie and Jud Davis.
The majority of Carolina's running plays in the game
went through the center of the line with these two men
opening up the holes.
Dew began playing football for Sumter high school in
1941. Although he played guard, he was one of the fastest
men on the squad, faster than most of the backs. He
moved on to Georgia, after playing high school ball for two
years, but did not use his eligibility there as a freshman.
After the United States entered the war, Dew, in keeping
with his rugged nature, entered the paratroops. While in
the service, he married pretty Marion McClam, who was
from Sumter also.
Upon his discharge from the paratroops, Dew entered
school here at the university to play football for Rex En
right. He is now a junior in the school of education.
LINEMAN OF THE WEEK
When Red Wilson took Bo Hagans pass on the Clemson
12 and headed into the end zone for the first touchdown last
Thursday, it marked tht third consecutive year that the red
head has scored against the Tigers.
Other than this scoring pass play, Wilson wvas on the re
ceiving end of two other Hagan passes and showed the
agility of a halfback when he had his hands on the ball in
the Clemson secondary.
Wilson is generally considered one of the best blockers
in the state. In the classic last Thursday, he threw para
lyzing blocks at the Clemson defense time after time to
clear the way for the Gamecock ball-carriers.
In addition to his offensive achievements, Wilson played
his finest defensive game of the year against the Tigers to
gain for himself the lineman of the week dlistinction for the
Clemson game.
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Last Thursday, 24,000 football
fans saw the annual Carolina
Clemson game at University Sta
dium. Few thought of the enor
mous amount of work that went
into seating that many people.
The man in charge of this task
is Dick Anderson. During the time
that football is out of season, Dick
spends his time acting as unof
ficial secretary for the Bam Club,
recruiting new members, and sell
ing tickets to the coming games.
The latter is a full-time job in it
self.
Just after New Year's Day the
first checks begin arriving. for the
next Carolina-Clemson game. They
have to be returned, for the tickets
aren't printed that early.
Dick compares himself to a
agent at a railroad station. He
sells the tickets, but he dosn't
have anything to do with the ope
ration of the train. Similar'y, he
sells tickets to the football &'ames.
But he doesn't have any choice
about whom to sell the ticket, to,
or where the buyers of the tic cets
will sit.
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who shall get the tickets. This
year they specified that Bam Club
members would havc first choice
of season tickets, then Alumni I
members, and finally the general
public. They specified that the
same order would hold for the in
dividual game tickets.
Dick gets many calls for tickets
during the nights preceding the
Clemson-Carolina gain.
"Thanks to the student body, we
had the most orderly 'Big Thurs
day' last week since the series be
gan," says Dick.
"When I first came here in 1946
I had a good idea that the crowd
attending the Carolina-Clemson
game would be a headache. But
that wasn't the half of it.
"On the eve of the game, two
brothers by the name of Roser, be
gan selling bogus tickets to the
game. They were apprehended by
the police, but the damage had
been done. The following day some
4,000 people with and without
tickets were gathered outside the
gates of the stadium.
"After some time, angered by
the fact that they had tickets to
a game they couldn't see, the crowd
pushed into the stadium, knock
ing aside gatemen, and picking up
women bodily carrying them Into
the stadium.
"Since that day, I've always
dreaded 'Big Thursday.' But to
my surprise, this past one came
off with remarkable order.
"The men to thank for this are
Bill Jones, Rock Yarborough,
Spruce McCain, Sol Abrams, and
Walt Smith. They were a tre
mendous help, and I don't think
the job would have been accom
plished as well without their help."
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Ied Harrison, winner of the Jacobs Blocking Trophy for S. C. and
the award for Carolina's most valuable player last year, is again prov
ing his worth to Coach Rex Enright this fall. Harrison is one of the
best defensive fullbacks in the nation, in addition to his offensive
talents.
Gamecock Offense Clicks
Despite Two Recent Losses
The Gamecocks considered by most people as mainly a defensive
machine can also point with pride to very respectable offensive av
erages. The Birds have gained a total of 867 yards on the ground
and 275 yards through the air. This is an average of approximately
285 yards per game.
Steve Wadiak, the fair-haired boy of the Clemson game, slipped
into the lead among the ball carriers with an average of 8.2 vards.
In the State Fair game Wadiak twice got loose for runs of 9 and
40 yards to boost him to the top.
Bishop Stricliland, who led the ball carriers up to the Clemson game,
remAins the workhorse of the squad. Against Clemson he carried the
.;.1 17 times to give him a seasonal total of more than twice the
combined attempts of any other back.
Bo Hagan has given the Gamecocks a passing attack that has been
highly underrated most of the year. In 39 attempts he has com
pleted 22 passes and has held enemy teams to 8 interceptions.
The season's complete statistics are:
RUSHING
Times Yards Yards
Rushing Gained Lost Average
Wadiak . 21 173 28 8.2
Harrison 17 126 5 7.4
Strickland .. 60 301 10 5.8
DeLoach 27 148 6 5.4
Allen . . io 50 4 4.6
Couch 16 61 5 3.8
Pickett 5 16 0 3.2
PASSING
Times Passes Passes
Passing Completed Intercepted Yards
Hagan... . .. .. ... 8..9 22 3 '225
Pasky ............ ..... 10 1 1 12
Vella 6 3 0 44
DeLoach . 2 a 1 0
Haralson ..1 0 0 0
PASS RECEIVING
Number ReceIved Yards
Dick Fagan, end ..6 81
Will Harvin, end .6 58
Red Wilson, end ... 6 74
Cecil Woolbright, end ... . ..2 11
Harry Bryson, end . . . . .1 8
Bishop Strickland, back . 1 19
Harry DeLoach, back 1 10
Gus Allen, hack ..2 17
Jim Pinkerton, end .1 6
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By LLOYD H
The Biddies will again play
meet the Little Wind from
After last Wednesday's gam
trounced the Clemson Cubs t
would be favoredl against alm
Again it was Boyle and his rifle
arm that accounted for most of the
Biddie yardage. Each time the run
ning attack bogged down, the 6 ft.
3 in., 215 pound quarterback grab
bed the ball and threw his accurate
bullets into a whole host of tar
gets. Cooper, Woodlee, Kahle, and
many others were recipietts of his
amazing passes. When the game
was finished the Biddies were out
in front 19-7 and Boyle had the
phenomenal record of 15 comple
tions in 24 attempts. It would
have been even higher but several
times the receivers failed to hold
on to the ball.
The game was witnessed by per
haps the largest crowd ever to at
tend a freshman game in this
state. And al were ecstatic in
their praise of Boyle. Many called
him the most accurate passer ever
to wear the colors of a South Caro
Wadiak Is Named
Conference Soph (
Steve Wadiak, the Chicago
rocket at Carolina, was selected
as the Southern Conference's
sophomore of the week award for
his play in the Carolina-Clemson
classic last Thursday.
Wadiak set up Carolina's only
touchdown in the first quarter
when he twisted through the Clem
son defense for 43 yards to the
Clemson 26. In the second half,
the freshman halfback carried the
Gamecocks down into scoring po
sition with a beautiful 89-yard
For the afternoon's work, Wa
diak gained a total of 110 yards
in ten tries at the line, outgaining
even the fabulous Bishop Strick
land.
At the beginning of the seagn
Wadiak was receiving rave notices
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lina school. Others went so far as
to declare that he was the finest
passer ever to play in the Carolina
stadium. This includes Harry Gil
mer of Alabama, one of the great
est'passers in the history of col
legiate football.
Tommy Woodlee also came in for
his share of praise as he gave a
beautiful exhibition of kicking
and time and again thrilled the
crowd with electrifying runs.
The Biddies line-up: Ends:
Kahle, McLeondon, Finley, Shea,
Latoree, Taylor, Green; Tackles:
Papkovic, Stephens, Slade, Stew
art, Finklea, Schuetzner, Wilcox,
Enright; Guards: Sandifer, Gause,
Norris, Gargano, Hunt, Rogers;
Centers: Jabusch, Johnson, Berry.
Backs: Boyle, Woodlee, Cooper,
Prexioso, Ratteree, Spence, Mc
Gill, McNair, Rader, F. Spence.
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in all of the local newspapers for
his running prowess, but he failed
to stand out in the Tulane and
Furman games. In the Big Thurs
day affair, however, Wadiak was
the outstanding runner on the
field.
Coach Enright's newest running
star is a curly-haired, stocky Navy
veteran sent to the Carolina cam
pus by Bill Milner, former Game
cock star. Milner noticed Wadiak
playing for a sandlot ball club in
Chicago last fall and immediately
began to fill his ears with talk of
South Caiolina.
Wadiak enrolled at the univer
sity for the spring semester last
February. In spring practice last
year, he was used at fullback.
This fall, the Carolina coaches
shifted him to halfback to take
greater advantage of his speed.
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