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This afternoon forty to fifty Gamecocks will journey to Durham, North Carolina, along with their coaches, trainers, and managers. This afternoon, also, and tomorrow K any Gamecock supporters will make the better than 200 ile journey to witness the Rooster's clash with the Duke Blue Devils. All of these people will be going to see the Birds win, not gain a bowl bid or better their chances for a confer ence crown but just to WIN and better their season's record. The Blue Devils are one of the top teams in the South. They have a strong line and a very potent running and pass ing offensive attack. The Devils have been victorious in all their outings except for two and these were against Army and Navy. The two service academies beat Duke "up front" on the line. They showed superiority at both offensive and defeatve play in the line. Here is where the Blue Devils had better watch out again, tomorrow. GREAT LINES MEET The Gamecocks are noted primarily for their outstanding line, from end to end, with plenty of depth on the bench to back up that which is on the field. The Birds' forward wall will be up for this game as will the entire team. Every man is in "tip-top" physical shape and will be eyeing an up set as well as attempting to gain revenge for last year's defeat at the hands of these same Duke Blue Devils, last year. One of the conference's biggest troubles at the end of the season will be to pick an All-Conference quarterback. Tomorrow's contest will find two of the top contenders for the All-ACC field general's spot locking horns. They are Carolina's great Mackie Prickett and Duke's Captain, Jerry Barger. Both have proven themselves as top-rate team directors through this season, but then this is all that Prickett has to go on. Barger has the upper hand in ex perience in that he has been playing three years as the Blue Dev'1 field general with this making his fourth. PRICKETT SHINES ON THE RECORD BOOK A look at the latest conference statistics as sent to us by the ACC Service Bureau, in Greensboro, finds that Prickett is first in total offense while Barger is eighth. Neither man finds his name in the rushing offense column. Prickett also leads all comers in passing while Barger can do no better than fifth with all of his experience or not. The competition will prove a challenge to both of these great competitors. A good showing by either one of these two could mean the coveted All-ACC ranking. One thing, however; it comes to our minds that all great athletes usually have one GREAT day that outshines all their other top performances. We have a funny feeling that Prickett is just about due for such a performance and he may just "run wild." Another important aspect to many Carolina fans who may make the long trip or just listen to the game on the radio here ip South Carolina is that Mike Caskey has finally reached his 1953 form and this could prove quite a menace to any opposition the Birds may meet, Duke included. With some bias in the back of our minds we find that it is a fairly safe bet to say that the final score in tomorrow's game will be 2 1-13, Carolina!!! HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE .. . T he St. Louis Sporting News sent to us a letter asking us if gwould please pick an All-American team to help them in choosing their All-American team. 350 college sports writers were contacted and this is how we picked it: Ends, Don Hol Ileder of Army and Ron Beagle of Navy; tackles, Bruce Bosley of West Virginia and Sid Fourot of LSU; guards, FRANK MINCEVICH of USC and Bud Brooks of Arkansas; center, Mat Hazeltine of California; quarterback, Ralph Guglielmi of Notre Dame; halfbacks, Howard Cassidy of Ohio State and Primo Villaneauva of UCLA; and fullback, Allen Amache of Wisconsin. We were also told to pick an outstanding player from out of this lot and Amache was the man we named. . .. The top ACC candidate for All-American honors is Carolina's own Frank Mincevich with many, many Sgood guards playing throughout the country. . .. The leading candtlates for All-ACC honors from the Rooster roster are: Mackie Prickett, Carl Brazell, Frank Mincevich, Bill Wohr man, and Leon Cunningham. Cunningham, Wohrman, Mince vich were on the 1953 edition. . .. One of Carolina's all-time greats on the basketball court, Don Cox, is really "strutting his stuff" with the Fort Jackson hoopsters. He and Furman's Neild Gordon seem to be the sparkplugs of the service quintet. ...Other Carolina alums are making an occasional bid for attention in the newspapers. Dave Sparks is playing a pretty regular guard position for the Washington Redskins, Gayle Kerr is shining with the powerful Fort Jackson football team, and Pete Booth is seeing quite a bit of action with the Camp Lejeune eleven . . . When Carolina and Duke meet a weird combination will arise as seen from the record books. Duke leads the conference in total offense, rushing offense, and pass defense. Carolina leads the conference in pass dlefense, only. However, Duke is last in both total defense and rushing defense . .. There are twenty-one basketeers on full scholarships fighting for the thirteen or fourteen berths on the Carolina varsity. A better-than-average year is antici pated in many quarters for the Gamecock basketball team. -X.A - ~ ~ ~ Above are pictured two Duke B Barger, who is in bis fourth year oi shown real class in play thus far thi Roosters I Today; M( Carolina's Gamecocks move to Durham, N. C., today to battle Duke's Blue Devils tomorrow af ternoon in the football game that might decide the Atlantic Coast ConfETence representative in the Orange Bowl January 1. The Gamecocks, fresh from a big win over Virginia's Cavaliers, will be about a two-touchdown underdog at game time. Duke with Maryland who has completed its schedule. At present Duke needs the win in order to keep up leads the conference with a 2-0 record. Duke had to put on steam to drop Wake Forest last Saturday. The Blue Devils won a 28-21 vic tory over their annual foe. Caro lina flashed top form in dropping Virginia, 27-0. The Gamecocks won their make or break game for the season. Before entering the Virginia game the Birds had won three and dropped the same number. The win over Virginia may be the spark that sets off the powder for a successful Carolina season. . Up and Down The Birds have had an~ up and down season to date. They won the 'opener from Army, 34-20, then dropped a 26-6 decision to strong West Virginia. A win over Furman was more of a loss to the Gamecocks. Several key men were injured in the game that hurt the Birds. The annual do-or-die Clemson game rolled around and the Game cocks were up and ready. They dropped the Tigers 13-8 while playing a bang-up game. After Clemson came Maryland's Terri pins, and the Terps ran over the Bird line and around both ends to win a 20-0 battle. After Mary land came North Carolina, and the Tar Heels upset the Game cocks with a story book 21-19 decision. The Blue Devils have had their good and bad games too. They opened the season with a 52-0 shellacking of Pennsylvania. They squeezed by Tennessee, 7-6. After Tennessee they stoppced Len Daw son and the Purdue Boilermakers with a 13-13 tie. Army stopped the Blue Devils by a score of 27 14. The Devils bounced back against North Carolina State after State had outplayed them for the first period. In one of the season's most ox Perfectly Normal... At Oklahoma City University a co-ed placed a want ad in the school paper to recover some lost articles. Among the items she advertised were two mechan ical pencils, a purple formal, a $3 check, one shoe, a pajama bottom, a suit of long underwear and a white shirt. "It's normal for a girl to lose thana things,? he said. lue Devil stalwats. On the left is i the varsity at Duke. On the right s season. Leave Foi iet I)uke ' citing games the Devils came from a 20-0 deficit and dropped Georgii Tech 21-20. After Tech Navy humiliated Duke with a 47 6 win. Front Runners The Gamecocks have averaged 18 points per game, but they have yielded 14 per game to their op ponents. The Bird defense rose to new heights Saturday by hold ing Virginia to 13 yards rushing. The Blue Devils will offer a much stronger running attack than the Cavaliers. With Jerry Barger, Bryant Aldridge, and Bob Pascal running the ball the Devils "will offer a very formidable ground offensive. Pascal is second in the confer ence in rushing with 411 yards and a 4.7 average. Aldridge has COLLEGE SMOKERS PRI margin-according to the college survey. Once agair better. They taste better 1 tobacco. Then, that tob "It's Toasted"- the famo up Luckies' light, good-ti even better. The pleasure taste is vividly depicted Modern artist enjoying I See the ecstatic smile? Just go Lucky! wcKIEsT CLEANER, FRE! the captain and quarterback, Jerry is guard Ralph Torrance, who has Durham Fomorrow gaied 8 yards and a 5.2 aver age and ranks fourth in the con ference. The Gamecocks have some froni runner in league statistics also Mackie Prickett leads the confer. ence in total offense and forward passing. Prickett has completed 52 passes out of 89 attempts. Mike Caskey and Carl Brazell lead the Bird running attack behind the great blocking of Bill Wohrman Caskey moved up to fifth place ir rushing offense in the conference with 103 yards against Virginia The game should be a duel be tween Prickett and Duke Quarter back Jerry Barger. Barger ig master of the option play whici features the Duke offense. Barge1 also has thrown three touchdowi passes while completing 24 of 54 passes thus far this season. 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The Birds have been practicing since the first of the month with many new faces and much hard work. Last year's starting five of Tom Hofferth, Jack Hufford, Lee Collins, Joe Smith, and Paul Goldsmith, has returned in tact but the 1954-55 starting five does not exactly read like this. With the addition of the entire Pikesville Junior College five from Pikesville, Kentucky, the seveith ranking junior college quintet last season, some changes seem probable in the starting five. Smith, the captain, is still holding down his forward position. Across from Smith is Woody Preston who averaged 26 points per game last season and is a very good shot from anywhere on the floor. Tall, 6'-7" Lee Collins is at center with last year's "fireball," Jack Huf ford at one guard and Benny Fannin, from Pikesville, at the other guard slot. This combina tion seems to show great speed, agility, and a big improvement over last year's team. AT'S THIS lion see paragraph below. 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In both sets the "Nu's" took qff with 5-0 leads which were slowly whittled down. Fine offensive play by Jimmy Cox and Moe McCredie won the first game for the "Ohi's" 15-12 but only after a long hard uphill climb which saw the "Chi's" playing more a defensive game against the mighty "spikes" of Billy Walters, Newland Collier and Wayne Kilgore. The second game saw the "Nu's" off to a flying start but a deter mined "Chi" six fought back and evened the score at 9-9. Then Joe Smith came into the game and he definitely was the difference a he "spiked" six points almost in a row in the same spot and the "Chi's" left the court with a 15-13 victory. de Ic PNOTOGEAP4E's WAY Marcia Ruhi St.Cloud S.T.C. DACHsHUND PASsN0 DoGHOUss aSN BT Emily Scha(er West Virgsnia University MT TAsasD P Uieriy Gra University of Cam M STUDENTSI EARN $251 ring in! Where are yous? We pay * many we don't use. 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