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Enright Admits Birds Have Fighting Chance By MORDECAI PERSKY According to Rex Enright, head football coach and athletic director, the newly selected Gamecock sports staff will have to get off to a pretty fast start next fall writing away a host of early season losses. Things look especially black to the Bird mentor at this stage of the game. He has nothing but question marks at quarterback and at the ends. He has to begin what he terms a back-breaking schedule by sending an inexperienced squad against Duke, which was picked for the Southern Conference championship, and Georgia Tech, one of the best teams in the SEC. "I think we're going to have a lot of fire, dash, and enthusiasm," Enright said. "After watching the boys doing all that blocking, tackling, and hard work in spring training, I know we're going to have a squad that'll never quit . . . I'm a football coach," he moaned, "and they're gonna say I'm moaning, but we just haven't got what it takes to come out on top in the won-lost column." We wanted to know if the coach had read any of the optimistic reports on his '50 squad that were appearing from time to time in a local newspaper. He had. "He means well. He wants us to have a winning team this year." The coach referred to a man who spends a portion of his time in the press box. "But he doesn't realize the pressure he's putting on the boys. We lost our two terrific line-backers in Rutledge and Elimoff. We lost our five top-ranking ends. We lost our first-string quarterback, Bo Hagan. And yet we're supposed to have a better team this year.! 'Why, we've got Strickland and Wadiak!'" Mr. Enright mocked those who expected to win football games with half backs alone. Strickland and Wadiak provided a pleasant topic of conversation. The genial Enright thinks Wadiak rates with the all-time Carolina greats. A possible candidate for All-American honors? "There are only two All-American halfbacks in the United States. Is Wadiak one of them? I don't know," Enright stated. The coach's exceptional performer list is topped by Strickland, Wadiak, 'and center Larry Smith-after these, the talent is unclassified. Mention of a bovine inmtitution in the Anderson area drew a lightning reaction. "Where do you think we would have been last year without Bo Hagan?" Our mumbled reassurance that we might very well have been up the creek with a pair of proverbial leaky oars proved this point. "Well, we don't have Hagan this year. I'm not saying we won't beat Clemson, but I'm saying that we'll have to get out on the field and play over our heads to do it. Who did Clemson lose off last year's squad ?" It was made clear that no one of importance had been lost. "And yet if we win that game, people will say, 'Fine, that's what you were supposed to do!', and if we lose, they'll say, 'What's wrong with Carolina?' We gave Baylor and Miami all we had last year and from a technical standpoint we gave them a heckuva game . but we lost. There's a big difference between playing good ball and bad ball when you lose to a good team. All we ask is that the fans give us a chance." Mr. Enright suggests that we present our problem to a six-man board composed of Carl Snavely of North Carolina, Red Drew of Alabama, Bob Neyland of Tennessee, -Henry Frnka of Tulane, and Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech. As an afterthought he adds a man of similar occupation who is now employed by an outlaw institution in the midwest-Frank Leahy. A tactful omission is Frank Howard, a man known to visit Columbia on at least one Thursday every year. Remorseful Rex thinks these guys will bear him out. Here's Ten Steps For Wooing And Winning That Fair Maiden Most American women grow up, less usual than gardenias, and so become engaged, marry and have (she'll make you think) are you. children without ever coming closer 2. 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He is the older of the two brothers and will leave quite a dent in Coach Weems Baskin's track squad when he graduates in June. -m....... ................... Jiege MHf/Rp ) Athletes File From Carolina In Multitudes By MORDECAI PERSKY A host of proud Carolina ath letes, all of them immortalized on these pages at some time or other during their four-year stay here, will issue forth at the end of this semester into what those in the know have been prone to call the wide, wide world. Red Wilson, Macon, Georgia, a four-time all-state end, will move on to possibly even greater grid iron glory with the Green Bay Packers of the professional Na tional-American Football League. Former all-state quarterback Har old "Bo" Hagan of Savannah, Georgia, plans a combination career of school teaching and coaching. Captain Cecil Woolbright of Abbe ville, will move into Winyah terri tory for a high school coaching job in Georgetown. Line-backing specialist Bill Rut ledge, a burly fullback from Char lotte, North Carolina, has already !ined up a job with General Motors Acceptance Corporation. Jarrin' Jim Pinkerton, Candler, North Carolina, a sensational pass-catch ing end in his senior year, and an all-Southern third baseman, retires to Kingstree where he will con bine high school coaching with semi-pro baseball. Johnny Sykes, all-Southern shortstop from Ral eigh, will try his hand in organized ball. Bill Smith, Lumberton, North Carolina, a talented basketball player who spent most of his Caro lina net career in the long shadow of Jimmy Slaughter, will go into the teaching profession. Defensive center Len Ekimoff of Erie, Pennsylvania, whose athletic career lives on in the nightmares of Bobby Dodd; tackle Bob Dock cry, Asheville, North Carolina; track team captain Ray McKenzie of Kingstree; and Dick Fagan, a defensive end from Hartsville, all move on under a iack cloak of mystery. Harry Bryson of Asheville, North Carolina, gives up eating in favor of a journalism career. Harry was a standout defensive end for the Gamecocks. Elerson Fowlei, :3O-pound class leather-hurler, leaves to take a steady job in Montgomery, Ala bama. Famous IESTERI WI ThE Na ton First, Softball ants-Bill Davis, Brooks' Harrison and George Pair. "It was through the efforts of these men that this year has been the most successful yet," Grugan said. It was pointed out that 1,700 men participated in intramural sports during the past year. "This program has provided un estimable recreati n and pleasure for those participating," Grugan continued, "and it is hoped that a larger number will participate next year." Plans for next year's program have already been completed and will be released sometime this summer. The program will open on October 1, next fall, with the playing of the first volley ball game. 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