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RALPH GREGORY, Sports Editor Frank Wright Mike Lovejoy Irv Liskov Philip Moody Bill Liggett RALPH GREGORY: Hi, Sport! For five minutes last Saturday night the Gamecocks woke up and played some pretty good football. Then after taking a 14-0 lead they relapsed into their old way of not caring enough to play their hardest. With the snap and hustle they showed in the first quarter they could easily have run The Citadel all the way back to Charleston. It only proveA our contention that they have, potentially, one of the better teams in the South. As it happened they were outplayed entirely in the second half. The blocking was no better than that displayed against I)uke. The defensive line played its worst game in the past few years. There was, of course, some improvement over the previous week's massacre. The pass defense was 100 per cent better than against Duke. Not until the last few minutes of the game was Buddy Friedlin able to complete a pass and he wound up with only three completions. The pass offense was practically flawless compared to the aerial attacks that the Birds have put up in the last dozen or so games. The big reason for the improvement was Johnny Gramling, the Orangeburg lad who has taken the regular quarterback position. Johnny threw 14 passes and all but one was perfect. He completed eight of them and threw the others to their marks but the ends were rather slippery fingered and unable to hold them. FURMAN TOMORROW This week another team comes to town with the idea of upsetting the Gamecocks and again there could be a good chance of them doing it. Furman has reportedly one of its strongest teams since long before the war. They have been beaten twice but they are playing one of their roughest schedules in many years. They beat P C in their season opener :9-0 then lost to Washington, and Lee and Virginia. They looked extremely good in the game against Virginia last week. Their biggest threat is a hard running, shifty backfield that compares favorably with that of the Gamecocks. Fresh man Halfback Russell Sutton averaged better than eight yards in the win over P C and returned one kick 93 yards for a touchdown. Their other halfback is hard-hitting Sonny I orton who has been around for three yearu and is the real backbone of the Furman eleven. Gene Pedrick is the quarterback. Although not a strong Passer lie is a goodl ball handler and a fine runner. Jim Piner rounds out the backfield. He is a fleet fullback who averaged 7.7 yards in their opener. This Furman team is onie that can easily cdump the Game cocks tomorrow if the Birds let down for a single instant. There was dlecided imp)rovement last week. Tomorrow we'll be looking for as much or more improvement. Swim Coach Jimmy Ratliff is still lacking men for his swimming team and urges any student wvho can swim to JUST CHECKIN' . . . come out for the squad. Only ten men are on the team so far andl many more are needed. No experience is required and freshmen are eligible for competition . .. Last season the Glamecocks lost only ten fumbles (luring the whole football seasonl. This year they have already lost 8. They have recovered only 2 from the other teams . . . Steve Wadiak will have to average better than 130 yards per game for the remainling sev'en games to top) his rushing total of last season. lie gained 998 yardls last year and has 107 in the first two games this season . . . 'The second team backfield looked very good against The Citadel. Jimmy Cooper, Bob Korn and L.oekhart McLendlon comibined to move the ball from their own goal line to midfield before a fumble eut short the drive. JUST 2 BLOCKS AWAY . .. Th'lat's Sunshuinie Launidry anid Cleaniers' plant at 1415 Ge'rvais - two blocks fromin the JUiversity! Smart Gamecock guys ami gals take all their laundry and dryi cleauinug to Suanshinec. One-day Quality Service, by request, on (try clean-i lng, shirts, piece work and bachelor bundles. Sunshine service means sattisfa~tion!t S UNS H INE LAUND)RY AND CLEANERS (43 ERVAIS PHIONE 6667 Stout Steve Wadiak on a wide ei against The Citadel. Ellis (90), Citadel guard, and and Moose Kahle (76) can be seen i during the night and scored two of Upset Minde HereTomori The Carolina Gamecocks take on Furnan's Purple Hurricane tomor row afternoon at Carolina Stadium in the USC Home-coming game. A crowd of more than 20,000 is ex pected for the annual alumni get together. Game time is 2:30. The Hurricane will be all primed to ruin the Bird's intended show for the home folks. They have a hard-running backfield and a =trong defensive line. The upset minded Furman team will be out for a repeat of its 1949 surprise win over the Birds. They won that year. 14-7. Last year the Game cocks won 21-6 to take a 17-16 lead in the series. One game ended in a tie. An explosive backfield will be the main weapon of the Furman at tack. They have two good break away runners in Sonny Horton and Russell Sutton. Horton is a senior who has sparked the Purple's at tack for three years. Sutton is a first-year man but has shown plenty of running ability in his first three games. He went 93 yards for a touchdown in his first Cornell Ar FI.OWERtS FOR E :oraages ai Phone ATTEE U.S5 . Off CLASS (10K ( (14K By Sp< Are Here For im All A.B., B.S. See Fred THE DALF( CLAIRE TOWERS iadi11ac Takes Off id sweep goes for 13 yards and one Villiams (16), back, are closing in f n the background. The Cadillac powe the Gamecock's touchdowns.-(US( 1 FurmanWi] -owln Homec varsity game. .Jim Piner and Gene Pedrick round out the Furman backfield. Piner is a bruising fullback aver aging more than five yards per carry. Pedrick is the slick handling quarterback who can also run when given a chance. The Gamecocks will probably rely on their newly found passing attack should the heavy Furman line be able to stop the thrusts of Halfback Steve Wadiak and Hootie Johnson. Johnny Gramling, Bird quarterback, will be called on to do the pitching when some passing is needed. Gramling was the big noise FORMAL WEAR For Rent Wright-Johnstn INCORPORATED Men's Clothing, Shoes, and Furnishings 1330 Main Phone 2-4223 ms Florist VERY OCCASION Specialty 3-6801 IT IONI i.C. cial RINGS OLD) acial Order) mediate Delivery Sizes and LL.B. F'ilkinsa At UR STORE of his biggest gains of the night or the tackle. Bobby Drawdy (31) red his way for 81 yards rushing Sportaphoto by Munn-Teal.) [1 Meet Birds DmingGame in th% Gamecock offensive against The Citadel last week when the Birds won, 26-7. Carolina will go into the game a one-touchdown favorite. They have been stressing passing and downfield blocking in this week's workouts. Blocking was noticeably absent in the first two games. The squad will probably be in top shape physically since no one was seriously injured in the game with the Bulldogs. - INE Then yi smoKini NO I Hi means M CALLI SFORF Bird Boxing Co The Gamecock's Southern col egiate welterweight champion, Emmett Gurney, and lightweight Chuck Davis were chosen by team mates as captain and alternate cap :ain of the boxing team this week. rhey, with Chuck Spann, Allen 3eorge, Howard Collins, Don Fort ner, Ted Kurtz and Stanley Hamil ton will be back this year gunning ror higher laurels. Three freshmen, Richard Irving rucker, better known as "Tick rock" from Memphis, Bubba rharpe, Miss., and Jack Cassidy, Winnsboro, will fill the vacancies :f Grady Decell, and 1950 SIBT Champs Jim Briggman and Pete Campassi. 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