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Ikere we are back with you again for another look at the latest Sportalk.... The first part of December Is the time when most colleges make that transition from the gridiron to the hardwoods and this school is no exception. But before we leave the football picture let us look over just what has been accomplished by the Gamecocks. They started off the season by affording the press plenty to talk about and began the "upsettingist" season in the history of college football. Some think that they reached their peak at the first of the season against the mighty Black Knights of the Hudson and just slacked off throughout the remainder of the season. TEAM DID FAIR a -team the Gamecocks finished with a six-won and four-lost record. They finished fourth in conference play behind Duke, Maryland, and North Carolina, being beaten by each of these three clubs. They finished second in the conference in both total defense and rushing defense. Not bad for a team which was hindered by injuries and mental unpreparedness throughout a major part of the season. In the "All" fields the Gamecocks were well represented. Guard Frank Mincevich became the first Rooster to gain recognition as an All-American on a major All-American team. He was selected as one of the four top guards in the nation by Look. Also receiving All-American classification was Leon Cunningham, who made third team on both the NEA and AP All-American groups. Mackie Prickett received an Honorable Mention on the NEA team while Mincevich received the same ranking on the AP team. Mincevich and Cunningham made unanimous All-ACC, being picked on every major ACC team. Brazell and Prickett made most everyone's second team, with Prickett just miss ing a first team berth to Jerry Barger; Duke, by a "hair." Bill Wohrman made the Charlotte News and Observer "dream team." Uec Granger, Harry Lovell, Wohrman, Prickett, and BraT il all made All-State, with Prickett receiving the nod over pre-season All-American candidate Don King, from Clemson. PRICKETT SHINED Prickett was perhaps the most outstanding Gamecock in more ways than one. He received Sophomore of the Week in the ACC twice, just missed Back of the Week (all over the nation) by a tad after his performance in the Clemson game, made Honorable Mention All-American on the NEA, was a strong second team choice on all ACC teams, made All State, was voted "Player of the Year" in this State by UP, broke the conference record for pass interceptions, and tied Johnny Gramling's conference record for number of passes completed in one season. He also ranked in the top fifteen in pass completions all over the nation, was tops in individual otal offense and passing in the conference. "The Little Man," Carl Brazell, also gained some nation wide fame by ranking fourth in pass receiving and setting a new conference record in that department. * Mike Caskey also found the time to join a hallowed circle. at Carolina, being the fourth man to enter the realm of 1,000 yards in a career plus. He picked up 556 yards this season to run his lifetime total to 1,002, thus joining Steve Wadiak, Bishop Strickland, and Gene Wilson. He also gained better than 500 yards in one season, which has also been done by only three others. Bill Wohrman received the Jacobs Blocking Trophy as the top blocker in the conference for the second year in a *row. 'ohrman and Cunningham received invitations to play on the South's team in the North-South game on Christmas d cay in Miami, Florida. Mincevich was selected as one of the 24 7players for the South in the Senior Bowl, January 9, in Mobile, Alabama. NEXT YEAR??? What are the prospects for next year???? The team has dropped Army from their schedule and added Navy while playing just about the same teams as they did this year, starting off with The Citadel. Big holes will be left when Granger, Lovell, George Mar tin, Wohrman, Mincevich, Cunningham, Harold Lewis, and otherg graduatee, but then the "bohunks" and freshmen have some good material to "donate" to varsity causes next year, so the team should be fairly strong next season. The "bohunks" will have Julius Derrick and Joe Fredricks to add to the already ample supply of ends, Jack Salisbury will be in at tackle, Jerry Davis at guard, and Jack Hall at quarterback. The frosh will give Bobby Barrett at fullback; Joe Gomes, Heyward King, Bunky Shore, and Carroll McClain at half backs; Bobby Bunch and Sammy Vickers at quarterback; Buddy Nidiffer at end; and Al Plaskey, Nelson Weston, Dwight Keith, Tommy Addison, and Harry McDevitt in the center of the line. Prospects are good and let us all hope that next year will be better than this one. We would like to ask all the different groups who have teams in the intramural football leagues to please let us know about who you beat, who scored the touchdowns, etc., so that a more interesting coverage of intramural sports , might be given by the sports staff to you, the readers. Than1r yu. . Twent Teams Enter ural Football Action The intramural football season opened this past Monday and will run through the 136h of January at which time the play-offs will begin. About 20 teams will be playing in two fraternity and one independent leagues. All games will begin at 4:00 p.m. Last year's defending campus champions, Preston Second East, will be in defense of their inde pendent crown as well as their campus title. They will be cast in the roll of favorites in indepen dent action with McBryde afford ing the stiffest competition. Over in the fraternity leagues Sigma Nu is the defending cham pion and will be favored to repeat again this year with a strong offensive punch which took them to last year's crown. Much compe tition will be afforded the "Nu's" with Lambda Chi, last year's Lea gue One kings; Pi Kappa Phi, runner-up in League Two, and Sigma Chi, runner-up in League One. The schedule reads as follows: Fraternity League Number One: December 10-SPE vs. Phi Sig Kap. December 13-Sigma Nu vs. ATO. December 14-Phi Sig Kap vs. KA. December 15-Pi Kap Phi vs. Phi Kap Sig. December 16-SPE vs. KA. January 3-Phi Sig Kap vs. ATO. January 4-Pi Kap Phi vs. Sigma Nu. January 5-Phi Kap Sig vs. Phi Sig Kap. January 6-SPE vs. ATO. January 7-Pi Kap Phi vs. KA. January 10-Sigma Nu vs. Phi Sig Kap. January 10-Phi Kap Sig vs. KA. January 11-Pi Kap Phi vs. ATO. January 12-Phi Sig Kap vs. SPE. January 12-Phi Kap Sig vs. ATO. January 13-SPE vs. Sigma Nu. FraternitX League Number Two: December 10-Lambda Chi vs. Sigma Chi. December 13-Kap Sig vs. SAE. December 14-Pi KA vs. Sigma Chi. Dc'cember 15-Phi Eps Pi vs. Lambda Chi. December 16-Sigma Chi vs. gAE January 3-Lambda Chi vs. Kap Sig. January 4-Phi Eps Pi vs. Pi KA. January 5-Lambda Chi vs. SAE. January 6-Phi Eps Pi vs. Sigma Chi. January 7--Pi KA vs. Kap Sig. IndIependent League: December 10-Preston 1st W. vs. Preston 2nd E. December 10-Preston 1st W. vs. Snowden. December 13 - McBryde vs. ASME. December 13-Maxcy vs. Ten. 5. December 14-Preston 1st W. vs. Snowden. December 14-Preston 2nd W. vs. McBryde. December 15-Preston 1st W. vs. Maxcy. December 15-Ten. 5 vs. ASME. December 16-Preston 1st W. vs. McBryde. December 16 - Snowden vs. Maxey. January 3--Preston 2nd E. vs. Ten. 5. January 3-Preston 1st W. vs. ASME. January 4-Preston 1st E. vs. Maxcy. January 4-MeBlryde vs. Ten. 5. January 5-Snowden vs. ASME. January 6-Preston 1st W. vs. Preston 2nd E. January 6-Preston 1st E. vs. Ten. 6. January 6-Maxcy vs. ASME. January 7-Preston 1st W. vs. McBryde. January 7--Preston 2nd E. vs. Snawdan. Pictured above is Dave Sparks, fi captain of the football team in 11 Washington hotel following the He Browns. Birdometer A look at the final football statistics for 1954 shows that South Carolina faired well in most every respect. Thv statistics: Scores: 34 Army 20 6 West Virginia 26 1 27 Furman 7 t 13 Clemson 8 t 0 Maryland 20 19 North Carolina 21 27 Virginia 0 7 Duke 261 20 Wake Forest 19 19 Citadel 6 172 153 Team statistics: USC Opponents 163 First downs 127 1966 Rushing yardage 1402 196.6 GAME AVERAGE 140.2 t 837 Passing yardage 933 83.7 GAME AVERAGE 93.3 2803 Total yardage 2335 280.3 GAME AVERAGE 233.5 159 Passes attempted 145 83 Passes completed 58 15 Passes intercepted by 12 43 Number of punts 50 1585 Yards punted 1797 36.8 Punting average 35.9 21 - Fumbles lost 15 423 Yards penalized 425 IndIividual rushing: No. Yds. Av. Miko Caskey, hb 83 556 6.7 Carl Brazell, hb 90 429 4.7 Bill Wohrman, fb 65 302 4.7 Bill Tarrer, hb 45 197 4.4 Mackie Prickett, qjb 97 147 1.5 Tommy Woodlee, hb 45 136 4.5 Crosby Lewis, fb 24 99 4.1 Ed Adams, fb 14 73 5.2 Bobby Drawdy, hb 10 24 2.4 Harold Lewis, qb 31 13 0.4 Individual passing: No. Comp. Yds. Pet. Int. Prickett 116 68 682 68.6 9 Lewis 37 7 132 18.9 1 Individual receiving: No. Yds. Brazell, hb 29 241 Joe Silas, end 11 143 Spec Granger, end 10 132 Wohrman, fb 6 --7 Bill Rivers, end 5 62 Tarrer, hb 5 57 Larry Gosnell, end 5 52 Caskey, hb 3 63 Buddy Frick, (nd1 3 33 Woodlee, hb 2 75 Scoring: TD's EP's Pts. Prickett 7 1 43 Brazell 4 1 25 Wohrman 4 0 24 Woodlee . 2 0 12 Silas 0 10 10 H. Lewis 1 0 6 Mincevich 1 0 6 Tarrer .1 0 6 Individual total offense leader: Plays Yards Prickett 213 829 Punting: No. Ave. Woodlee 3 52.3 Tarrer 14 36.0 Brazell 26 33.9 Pass interceptions: Pumt returns: No. Return Prickett 6 63 No. Yds. Ave. Brazell 9 90 10.0 Kickoff returns: No. Yds. Ave. Brazell 8 179 28.7 nricktt 7 156 22.3 mm rmer Gamecock defensive star and 050, who died last Sunday in a dskins game with the Cleveland AFROTC Rifle Team To Miami Firing their first shoulder-to houlder match of the year, the WROTC rifle team leaves this fternoon for Miami, Florida, vhere they will fire against the Jniversity of Miami ROTC rifle cam tomorrow afternoon. The eam will fly down to Miami via C-47 which they will catch from ;haw Field. Fifteen members will make the rip accompanied by coaches 7/Sgt. W. J. Lyons and Lt. W. L. klley. The team will be gone for hree days, leaving this afternoon it one o'clock and returning Sun lay afternoon. The team is led by Number One nan and Captain LeRoy Jackson vhile L. E. Littell is co-captain. )thers returning from last year's eam, along with the two cap ains, are: Steve Ostrow, Marion 4cNinch, Hal Crosswell, and hairles Brown. QUAR How a /4 became 6 c. PROBLI -quartz c as electr controls highest degree of precisic in fact, that prior toi skilled gem-cutters were do the job. But during the war, I enough gem-cutters to ke demand for crystals ini communications and oth4 Western Electric tack building into machines precision that had previc the most highly skilled o SOLUTION: Here is how are made now-by semi-i a fraction of the time forr A quartz stone is sliced a reciprocating diamor after determination of or trical axes by means of a an X-ray machine. Hairl: assured by an orienting I The wafers are cut int< machines equipped with The human element is p1 inated by means of adjusi other semi-automatic fea The quartz rectangle automatically to a thick of plus or minus .0001''. A overlapping. Finally, eds to specific length and wit on machines with fully au feed systems. Manufacturing plants in Chicogo, iII., Ke< Greensboro and Winston-Salem, N. C., I Distributing Centers In 29 eItaes and lnas, Gamecoc. Duke In The Gamecock basketball t car for North Carolina where Carolina Tar Heels last night it to Durham to take on Duke's The Gamecocks showed n year against Georgia in the Collins served notice that he will be the man to reckon with on rebounds. Joe Smith played his usual fine game against Georgia. A couple of transfer guards provt-d themselves capable performers. particularly on fast breaks. North Carolina is strong again this year. They have won several games already thit season. They beat Clemson by a 99-66 scoi e Three Roosters See All-Star Action A 6-4 won-lost record gets no team into a post season bowl con test but this does not mean that a few individual plavers cannot gain post season berths. Thus is the case with the Gamecocks and Frank Mincevich, Leon Cunning ham, and Bill Wohrman. Mincevien was selected to join 23 others on the South's team in the Senior Bowl to be played on January 9 in Mobile, Alabama. He was a unanimotts All-ACC choice and has gained the distinction of being the first Bird to make a full-fledged major All-American team when he was chosen by the Football Writers' Association of America for Look Magazine's "dream team." Cunningham and Wohrman have been selected by the South's coach ing staff to join fellow Rebels on the South's team in the North South All-Star game to be played Christmas Day in Miami, Florida. Cunningham was a unanimous All AC.C choice for the past two years and has been playing first string since his Freshman year. He was named to the Football Yearbook's All-American team last ye'ar and to the NEA and Associated Press' third team on this year's teams. Wohrman has been selected the top blocker in the conference for the past two years and was a .second and third-team choice on many All-ACC teams this year. TZ CRY hour"gem-cuttin fu 8-minute meda M: Preparing Ms ft rystals for use copely r onic frequency vlpdb calls for the n. So much so, RSLS Vorld War II mcie-i employed to elmne-t here were niot o urzcy ep up with the aya on -adar, military drn h a r1 applications,. h an n led the job of the skill and usly called for erators.I iuartz crystals ;killed labor in rierly required: into wafers on id-edged saw, tical and elec n oil bath and ne accuracy is ixture. rectangles on :iamond saws. actically elim- Qat tnsa able stops and mn-de a Lures. ai otoldt s are lappedWstr, ness tolerance timer prevents ~es are ground Ith dimensions completelicro tiy .J,Blio el d;niinateis dtl Iltlnhedqates n15te. many unu ks Meet Durham ?am left yesterday morning by they were to meet the North i Chapel Hill, and then proceed B3lue Devils tonight. arked improvement over last 3pening game last week. Lee last week. Indications are that the Tar Heels are stronger of fensively than they have been for several years. Jerry Vayda, junior forward, is the team's leading performer. Jerry aver aged 17 points per game last year. Teaming with Vayda at the forward posts is sophomore Len nie Rosenbluth. Lee Collins Duke's Blue Devils, are rated one of the top 20 teams in the nation this season. They have already gone over the 100 mark several times this season. Back from last year are Ronnie Mayer and Junior Morgan at forwards, Marty Do herty at center, and Joe Belmont and Don Tobin at guards. Mayer is one of the league's best re bounders as well as a good scorer. Doherty is the tallest man at 6 feet, 9) inches and Morgan stands 6-7. MNayer is 6-4, Tobin (3-5, and Belmont, the team's playmaker, is 5-11. The Gamecocks will probably start Woody Preston and Joe Smith at forwards, Lee Collins at center, and Bennie Fannin and Russ Porter at guards. STALS " operation1 nized job ase machines were either largely designed and de estern Electric engineers. ith skill built into the -h costly hand operations iis Western Electric mech gram raised production tals from a few thousand arly a million a month years. This is just one of sual jobs undertaken and ~stern Electric engineers. e cut into wafers on this dia ,with orientation to optical y lixture. This is just one of nachines designed and devel Electric engineers to mecha ig. Alentown and Loureldole, Pa.j Burlington, Lincoln, Neb., St. Paul and Duluth, Minn. mdquorre, 195 Baday Now Yokt.