The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 10, 1954, Page Page Seven, Image 9
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.
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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.
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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.
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