Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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7v 1 By BOBBY ALFORD It appea t e Bo t Cana$Qaniecqcks will finish at the tail end .of the b0kek*lb standings il the Atlantic Soast Conferente, at the seasor.s end. The Birds haVe yet to win a conference game and they have only -a dim hope of doing so. Last week .babketball coach. Frank Johnion said his 4harges were praying- better than they had all season. I4 seems that the best the Gameoo*6a can give. is not enough to win in the 6nferece. South Carolina is not the smallest sch6ol in the conference. The undergraduate enrollment at Clemson, Duke, Virginia and Wake Forest is less than that of Carolina. Clemsonnever burns up the basketball courts, but the Tigers usually, have one of the top baseball teams in the conference. Their football team is pretty strong year after year. Duke puts out a winner in nearly every sport from foot ball to soccer. Little Wake Forest, with only 1,388 undergraduates, comes through with good baseball and basketball teams. Where does that leave South Carolina, the fourth biggest school in the conference? On the bottom, or near it. Year after year the Gamecocks finish with only average-to-bad records in all sports. Throughout the past fourteen years the coaching staff at the University has remained practically the same. Coach Enright has been head football coach something like 14 years. Frank Johnson has headed the basketball team for about 12, and before him Ted Petoskey handled the job for five years. Coach Petoskey has hand!od the baseball team before I could say my ABC's. During recent years the University of South Carolina has grown. New professoy have been added, requirements made harder, better courses offered, but athletics have remained . unchanged. We seem rather content in our little nook near the bottom of the conference, and the athletic department seems rather content to win a few, lose a few, and have some rained out. Let's look at some of the other schools around the coun try. Notre Dame replaced Frank Leahy with Terry Brennan, only 26 years old, and the Fighting Irish lost one football game. Arkansas hired Bowden Wyatt and won the Southwest Conference football championship. Iowa hired Forrest Evasheski who turned thetn into a football power. Tennessee lured Wyatt from Arkansas as had coach next season. The Citadel, tired of its const'ant losing, came up with Johnny Sauer. Even Furman obtained a new head coach after a 5-5 record last season. The biggest reason schools change coaches is not because they lose games consistently, but because the alumni.become unhappy with losing. Once the alumni starts the ball rolling the newspapers grab it and pretty soon there's some changes a made. For years the Columbia newspapers have stood strongly behind South Carolina's coaches. They never criticize the Gamecock coaches. They even make excuses when something goes wrong in a game. I'm a hard loser in everything, whether it's football or checkers. I take my basketball, baseball, golf and tennis just as seriously as I do football. Apparently some of the older BGamecock heads should take their sports more seriously.* In football we concentrate on Clemson. We burn the Tiger, ring the bell, and become as tuned up as a concert piano for the Clemson game. The other games have interest, but-only about one-fourth as much. This is not only true with the st.udent body, but with the coaches as well. Basketball is so interesting to the average student that he pays 60 cents to see a movie when the Gamecocks are playing in the Field House. The baseball team is supported by those people who are madly in love with the game or who want to get out and 'enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. Excluding football, track is the most supported sport by the students. The track team wins, so naturally the people come out to see it. .' Apparently, the Athletic Department plans on importing their athletes in the future, basketball players at least. A look at the freshman team, who was licked by Dreher High School, gives one that impression anyway. If enough money isn't going to be spent to g.ive the Uni versity adequate representation among the other sister schools why not drop basketball and baseball. Boxing was dropped because it was unprofitable to find opponents. Box ing was the biggest student attraction at the University for the simple reason the Gamnecocks had a winning team. I think the studenta ate entitled to a winner. Guard Tom Hofferth lets one C in the Gamecocks 68-52 loss to Ma behind Hofferth, Bob Kessler (50) by Landis Perry) ASME Uj Final Ph ASME halted McBryde's 4 12-0, Tuesday afternoon. The Sigma Nu won the Fratei SAE finished the season Epsilon Pi. The win gave Sj ASME's defense kept Tad Hall, McBryde's number one passer, bottled up all afternoon as the engineers intercepted 10 passes. The first score came after the game was three minutes old. Lin say Bolton intercepted a Hall pass on the 10-yard line and ran it over for the score. The other score came w'hen Tom Tuten passed to Roddy Turner in the end zone. The game was played mostly in McBryde territory. Phil Moody 'threw three touch down passes as Sigma Nu rolled to an easy win. James Emory gathered in two of the tosses, and Al Bollinger took the other. Moody passed to Preston Whaley for the only extra point. Sigma Nu was runner-up for campus champion ship last year losing to McBryde in a Montana System playoff. The SAE team took an early lead when Willie Bradham scored on ah~ end run. Oharlie Jacobs passed to Bradham for the only other touchdown. Jacobs to Brad ham added the extra point. SA.E's defense held the Phi Ep's in cheek throughout the game. The three league champs meet runnerups in other leagues to de cide the campus champions. Phi Sigma Kappa finished second in As 'Shelley said, "If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?" We have already felt the warm breath of spring on the campus and before long it will be here to stay. We are all looking forward to wearing cotton dresses, so'here is a sneak preview of spring fashions for 1955. Cotton Dresses For 1955 The long-torso look, developed in I'aris, interpreted by American designers and apparent in resort collections, is present in junior cottons, too. This lean silhouette with raised buntline, slim midriff and lower hipline is handled in several ways for the junior figure. Usually, it's coupled with a wide, spreading skirt and .thus is kept young-looking. Even though the necklines frequently rise high in the front, they go low in the back. The deep V is used most often but the U cut Is evident, too. There are narrow shoulder straps set on square-cut necklines and lots of neat, flat, standaway collars. Princess lines and empire seam ing are partioealalIy good foy the girl with a fantor figure (mnphas sing= ta .mal wailine). ly at the basket with his hands whil ryland Tuesday night. Other player Joe Smith (14), Woody Preston usets McJ zyoffs Ne. >ffense completely to dethrone victory gave ASME the Inder mity League title by dropping undefeated and unscored upoi E.first place in Fraternity L< League I, Sigma Chi in League II, McBryde and Preston 1st West H UG HES COOPERAT IV E FELLOWSHIP P ROG RAM for Master of Science Degrees 640W TO A PPL.Y e using his legs for added effect k in photo are Bob Everett (54) [24), and Sanpower (43). (Photo ryde; rt Week last year's campus champions, endent League title. Phi Sigma Kappa, 19-0. i with a 13-0 victory over Phi ,ague Two. tied for sec8nd in the indepen dent league. ENGIr PHYSICS G To f/hose interested study while associatedu developmnent in inu two separate pi IA program to assist outstanding Iindividuals in studying for the 'Master of Science D)egree while I emiployed in industry and making contributions to important msilitary I work. Open to students who will receive the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineeig Physics or Mechanical Engieering during the conming I year, arnd to memnbers of the Armed I Services honorably discharged and I holding such B.S. degrees. As many as roo Fellowships will be awarded ' each year. Candidates umust mecet entrance requirements for advanced study at the University of California at Los Angeles or the University I of Southern California. Participants will work full time during the summer in the Hughes Laboratories I and a5 hours per week while pur suing a hal f-time schedule of graduate study at the university. Salary is comnmensurate with the inidividual's ability and experience. Tuition, admission fees and books for university attendance are pro vided. Provision is made to assist in paying travel and mboving epnses from outside Southern California. for the Hughes Cooperative Fellowship Program: Address all corresponsdence to the Committeefor Graduate Study ersity of CaIIfornIs at Lae Angelse .. """" I ESEARCH AND L.AUORA Terps Coi Conferenc Notice! Notice! Track practice will begin Monday, Jan. 17th, in prepara tion for the Indoor Track Meet to be held in Chapel Hill on Feb 26th. Coach Weems Baskin will hold a meeting Jan. 17th at 1:15 p.m. for all men interested in track, both varsity and freshman. Bowling Added To Intramurals Bowling has been added to the intramural athletic program by intramural director Joseph Gru gan. Entries are being accepted now, and play will get under way the first Wednesday after registra tion is completed. The program is open to soror ities as well as fraternities and independent teams. At present eight fraternities have entered teams. The sororities are asked to enter mixed teams. They should invite two boys to compete along with three girls for their team. The sororities will roll duckpins. Bowling nights will be Wednes days beginning at 7:30. Why Practice? Practice makes perfect is the way the old adage goes, but independent league champions ASME don't think se. The Engineers never practice. They don't even have any writ ten plays. In the huddle they have a round table discussion with each player picking his own play. The Engineers finished the season without a loss and but two ties to mar their record. Interest was so keen in the Mcllryde game that professor Frank Herty, engineering pro fessor, used part of his labora tory period to allow the boys to participate in the champion ship game. 4EERS or iRADUATES in advanced academic iths important research and Tustry, Huoghes offers actical programs: | Eligible those w T HEI mutq at th (o HOWARD' dooe. physics HUGHE SI n the neers mt FELLOWSH IPS IEach of not not less in tIttI Science " and comin Califori Engineering formn for the Sdenc H OW TO APPLY corresp Fedlows TORItS/ ders Coenety, Cal~fomaS / uld Win e Title Millikan Proud Of His Team Bud Millikan, head 67asketball coach of the Maryland Terrapins, thinks his toughest opposition to the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball crown will come from North Carolina State and Duke, but he concedes nothing to them. The young mentor, who played his .college basketball under Hank Iba at Oklahoma A and M, says that he thinks he has a fine basket ball team this season. The Terps are ranked 11th in the nation at this time. When asked about his team's chances at the league crown he said, "every time my boys take the floor for a game I think they have a good chance." Maryland uses control type basketball without taking unneces sary shots at the basket. After the game against Carolina, how ever, Coach Millikan quipped, "Carolina played more control ball tonight than we did." Ie looked extremely happy as he entered the dressing room where the tired Terp basketballers were taking it easy for a few minutes. In four years as head basketball coach at Maryland his teams have amassed 67 victories against 35 defeats. In those 102 games his opposition scored only 53.0 points per game while the Terps have averaged 58.8. Coach Millikan's philosophy, "shoot when you get a shot, but be sure you make it." The Amazing Mr. George Plender . . . BURLINGTON, VT. -(ACP) -University of Vermont base ball fans are awaiting the appearance of George Plender in intercollegiate baseball come spring, according to the Vermont Cynic, university weckly news paper. Plender shattered sports record books last spring when he pitched an "impossible" 57% straight scoreless innings in intercollegiate baseball for the Univeirsity of Vermont. for these Fellowships are ho have comspleted (oe year luate study in physics or ring. Successful candidates talify for gr.aduate standing :aliforni lmitiute of Tech for study toward the degree tor of Philosophy or post I work. Fellows may pursue ' e research in the tields of or engineering. D)uring rs they will work full time Hughes Laboratories in on with sctists and engi their fields. appointment is f>r twelve and provides a cash award less than S2,ooo, a salary of than S2,50o, and 51,500 for amnd rese.arch expenses. A adjustment is msade when I responsibilinies of the Fel ght othcrwise preclude par mn in the program. For those froms outside the Southern ua area provision is msade :>ving and transportation S. Ioward Hughes Fellow'shlps in and Ent,ineering: Address all edente to the How'ard Hughes sip Conunittee