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Gamecocks JOHNSON RAG Bg Walter Jolunson The students want a winning team. The fans want a win ning team. The players want a winning team. The alumni want a winning team. And everybody sits around and eats beans. It is a well known fact that the passing, both offensive and defensive, lost the game iast week. The Welsh-Beagle combination will be a hard one to beat. But we can beat them on the ground if the offensive passing doesn't go astray again. Statistically we got the better of the Deacons. The Gamecocks had four more first downs, outrushed them by 167 yards, and were only 68 yards behind in passing. Which means we should have given them a sound beating. But, as you can see, statistics don't mean very much in the final outcome. Take for instance the Maryland-UCLA game. The terrible Terrapins held the Uclans to a total rushing yardage of minus 21, but in spite of all that defen sive labor they only won by one touchdown. Navy had a similar game. The Middies had a sizeable edge in statistics over William and Mary, out rushing the Indians 238 yards to 114, outpassing them 65 yards to eight, and registering 11 first downs to six. They were also a seven-point victor. Oklahoma ran up 26 first downs to North Carolina's five and marched 403 yards to North Carolina's 112. And they also won by a touchdown and an extra point. What I am trying to do here is to justify our defeat, by the old method of comparing the Gamecocks with other great teams around the nation. After all, Wake Forest did have a good team. Take now, Nebraska's Cornhuskers, out weighed and outmanned, gave Ohio State's national cham pions a bad scare before succumbing 28-20. Missouri took a quick 7-0 lead over Michigan. Final score: 42-7, in favor of Michigan. And besides that, the Deamon Deacons had beaten VPI, a team which was undefeated last year. And the week after that, VPI crushed Pennsylvania 33-0. Which shows that they were not much worse than last year, which shows that Wake Forest had a pretty good team, which shows that Carolina didn't do too bad after all, which shows that there is the slight possibility of an upset over Navy tomorrow. * * * Some of the most extensive press and radio coverage for any sports event in the history. of South Carolina is assured for the Navy game tomorrow. Already 20 newspapers and three national wire services have made arrangements to staff the game, with others expected to be added to the list. Three radio networks, including a coast-to-coast hook-up of the American Broadcasting Company, will carry descrip tions of this important intersectional battle. Bill Stern, ABC's famous sportscaster, will (10 the play-by-play. The Gamecock Network, which covers all Carolina games, will cover over 15 stations, and a Navy network will be covering the Washington, D). C. and Baltimore, Md. areas. The basketball future at Carolina looks a little brighter because of the enrollment of two of the nation's top ten scorers among junior colleges last season. Gracy Wallace and Robert McCoy, both of whom played for Pikeville Junior College in Kentucky, enrolled here and will be eligible for varsity competitions this season. Wallace, who is six feet, six inches tall, scored 1,068 points and averaged .32.9 per game last winter to lead the entire nation. McCoy, a six-foot guard, scored 703 points and averaged 21.3 per game to rank ninth. Walter Hambrick, the coach of that Pikeville team which won 27 of 33 games, has also come to South Carolina as a physical education instructor and assistant basketball coach. Woody Preston and Benny Fannin, both transfers from the same college, broke into the starting lineup last seasori and averaged 15.0 and 10.6 points per game, respectively. Lee Collins, six-foot, six-inch center who had a 16.1 average last season will also be back, along with Marshall Perkins, who stands 6-4 and led the freshman scoring at 28.4 points per game. * * * Don Scott is making predictions each week on the out come of some of the major football games around the coun try. He did okay last week, guessing the winners right 18 times out of 15 attempts. He missed only the California Ifllnois game, calling it a tie, and the Carolina-Wake Forest game, in which he picked up the Gamecocks as victors. This week Don has the Gamecocks in the underdog role. Let's hope he misses on that one again. * * * Jim Bakhtiar, Virginia's highly publicized sophomore fullback from Iran, didn't live up to expectations last week agaist Clemson. He netted only 12 yards in five carries. Maybe it could be that it was Clemson's fault. The Tigers again have an aeellent defensive line. Let this be a warning. .Will Bunch Is Leader In Offense Bobby Bunch, a sophomore from Summerville who wasn't mentioned much before the season started, and dependable Mike Caskey, senior halfback from Bennettsville, compiled the most impressive yardage statistics for USC during the first two games this season. Bunch leads the total offense figures with 162 yards in 22 plays for a 7.4 average, and Caskey is the leading runner with 139 yards and air average of 6.6 per try. Bunch has gained 72 yards rush ing, averaging 4.8, and completed four of seven passes thrown for 90 yards. Caskey ripped off a 41-yard touchdown run against Wake For est Saturday night for his third touchdown of the season, giving him the scoring leadership. Carl Brazell, the Gamecocks' other great runner, has the best rushing average, however. Brazell has carried the ball only seven times but has gained 114 yards for a 16.8 average. Julius Derrick, rapidly estab lishing himself as an outstanding end on both offense and defense, leads the pass receivers with three catches good for 87 yards. M a c k I e Prickett, Carolina's regular quarterback who missed the opener with Wofford but played some against Wake Forest, has completed three of seven passes for 57 yards and gained 28 yards in two rushing attempts for a total offense of 85 yards. COME TO POPPA . .. Carolia people, including Wake Forest de to be breaking up the play, by cat, out of bound. in game last SaturdIay Sophomores Are Looking Good Rex Enright, head coach at Carolina, is finding that he will have to depend more and more on sophomores this fall. Leading the list have been quar terback Bobby Bunch and end Julius Derrick. Bunch led the team in total offense for the first two games with 162 yards and ran the team like a veteran. Derrick caught three passes for 87 yards and repeatedly threw op posing ball carriers for losses. Other sophomore backs looking good have been halfback Carrol McClain and fullback Bob Barrett. In the line tackle Tommy Addi son has lived up to his pre-season buildup. Tackle Al Plaskey and guard Nelson Weston are other sopho more linemen seeing extensive service. The USC freshman team boasts three outstanding center prospects from the state of South Carolina. They are Lawton Rogers of Con way, Bobby Long of Abbeville and Tony Gialenious of Columba.a Face Petoskey i As Best Poi Ted Petoskey, who has coached seven all-state ends at USC in the past eight 'seasons, believes that his 1955 crop of Gamecock flank men has a good chance of becom ing the best all-around set here since World War II. Petoskey sums up the situation briefly by saying, "It looks as if we'll have more depth at ends than we've had at any time since I've been here." Ted coached at Caro lina from 1935 to 1941, went to Wofford and returned to USC in 1947. "If several sophomores come through as hoped, we could have the best set of ends we've ever had here," Petoskey adds. The Gamecocks have five letter men back from last year's team, including J o e Silas, a first stringer, Buddy Frick, Larry Gos nell, Billy Rivers and Don Schul ster. Several sophomores were the bright lights of winter practices, Frick Stand Bunch Goo Selection of the Gamecock Star of the Week goes to a lineman this week, end Buddy Frick. A 6-4, 190-pound junior, Frick played a bang-up defensive game and was the Number One pass re ceiver against Wake Forest's De mon Deacons last week. The Deacs won 34-19, thanks to their own passing attack and two intercep a cnd Larry Gosnell fooled a lot of fender John Parham who appear, thing this pass just before stepping .Pass was thrown by Bobby Bunch. NO MORE PROI Our Cent; OPEN TIL 1415 Ger' Two Block. fre After classes or on your we and dry cleaning with us. 80-Minute Li Washed-Dried Many items read 8 cents a lb. SUNSHI 1415 GERVAIS (Two 801 MAIN ST. (One Navy eates Ends ition however, with Julius Derrick of Co lumbia stanihing out. "Derrick has possibilities of be ing as good as Clyde Bennett (third team All-America at USC in 1958)," predicts Petoskey. "He has all the physical quali ties .. . speed, she, reflexes and a good pair of hands," he points out. Derrick stands 64 and weighs 205 pounds. Petoskey is also high on 811as, a Macon, 'Ga., senior entering his fourth year of varsity ball. "Silas is a good, steady end and one of the best blockers on the squad," Petoskey says. Two other newcomers singled out by the Gamecock end coach are Joe Frederick, a 6-8, 195-pounder from Harrisburg, Ill., and Buddy Nidiffer, 6-1 and 195 pounds, from Elizabethton, Tenn. As a group these ends have ex ceptional speed, according to Petoskey, making them dangerous on offense, but to gain the title as "best at South Carolina" they'll have to improve some on defense. Is Out; d Again tions of Carolina passes that were run back 70 and 90 yards respec tively for touchdowns. They also intercepted two other Gamecock tosses. Frick, who wears contact lenses, made the most spectacular catch of the game when he leaped high and pulled down a pass from Mackie Prickett with one hand, holding on to it although hit in mid-air. He caught another over his shoulder down the left side lines for a gain of more than 80 yards. He kept the Wake Forest run ning attack bottled up whenever they attempted to run his way. In the backfield honorable men tion goes to halfback Mike Caskey, who scored the first Gamecock touchdown on a 41-yard run, and to sophomore quarterback Bobby Bunch, who directed the team to two last quarter touchdowns, scor ing one himself. Bunch also ran the option well and showed a great deal of poise for the second straight week. He was the leading passer for Caro lina with two completions In five attempts and no Interceptions. Another pass just missed off the finger tips of end Julius Derrick. Another strong candidate was tackle Bob Schwartz. A 225 pounder who wasn't being counted on at all because of a knee opera tion following a severe injury early last season, Schwartz probably was in on more' tackles than any other Gamecock lineman the first half. He left the game early in the third period with a slight limp but is expected to be ready for Navy tomorrow. Right ends Derrick and Larry Gosnell both rate honorable men tion. Derrick several times caught Wake Forest runners for losses and Gosnell played an aggressive game on defense and made a fine catch on the only pass thrown to him. LAUNDRY LEMS! al Location L 9:00 P.M. IT ra1s Street m the Uln5versiey y up town leave year lsandry iundry Service Polded and Wrapped y to use e wear. -10-lb. minimum Blocks from University) Block from Unversity) T o Welsh, Lead 11 By Lewis Cromer Qameeock Sports Writer After losing to Wake Forest on Saturday, the Gamecocks now turn to face their toughest foe thus far this season. On Saturday, Coach Eddie Erdelats' Midshipmen come to town to do battle with the USC Gamecocks. An upset, moreover, by the underdog Carolinians would put things "back on schedule" for Rex's boys. This will not, however, be so simple to attain for a number of reasons. First, Navy this year was rated the top team in the East in pre-season polls throughout the country. Last year's potent ag gregation made themselves felt strongly toward the end of the season and graduation took no heavy toll among the midshipmen. Second, Navy has certainly one of the finest quarterbacks in the na tion in the person of George Welch, potential all - American whose steady arm and head aided Navy greatly in their Sugar Bowl conquest of Mississippi last year. Welsh has two fine targets in his great ends all-American R o n Beagle and last week's standout Jim Barker. The Annapolis for ward wall poses a worthy adver sary for the fleet Gamecock half backs. Last week, Navy opened with a 7-0 victory over William and Mary, though the statistical edge was much greater. The Navy TD came on a Welsh-Barker aerial and the Gamecocks can look for plenty of pass defense work this week, especially since it seemed weak in the Wake Forest contest. The game has captured several "firsts," including the first ap pearance of a service academy team in this state and the first coast-to-coast broadcast on a ma jor network of a game from this state (ABC with Bill Stern handling the commentary). The District of Columbia and Baltimore areas will be blacked~ out along with "The Gamecock Network," who will use Bob Fulton and Ray Stanfield to handle play-by-play. The Gamecocks will be trying Wen o Universi. SEEN WHEREVER SMART MEN GATHER Wembley introduc combinations as campus colors - with your new Fa Nat ional univers undergraduates S for Wembley. 0 ... .... $250 orrow Beagle,. liddies for their second upset of an acad emy team in two years. The Birds dumped favored Army last year, 84-20. USC will rely on its two stellar, halfbacks, Caskey and Brazell and the pitching arms of Mackie Prickett, Jack Hall, and soph sensation Bobby Bunch. Carolina's offense thus far this year has netted them an average p of 898 yards and 22.2 points per game in two contests. Defensively, the Gamecocks have given up 108.6 yards per game on the ground and 105 in the air. Assistant Coach Ernie Lawhorne states, "I believe that it is highly possible for us to beat Navy, if we can eliminate the glaring defensive mistakes we've been making." Nevertheless, the Middies will probably be a 14-20 point favorite at game time. University officials are optimis tic over ticket sales and report that a crowd of some 30,000 is ex pected to attend the contest with kickoff being at 2:30 Saturday. Halftime festivities will feature Chesterfield's lovely Carolyn Wil lis, national baton twirling cham pion, and the performance of th e Parris Island Marine Band. Several sophomores have been showing exceptional progress in early-season workouts for the USC football team. Among them are fullback Bob Barrett, tackle Al Plaskey and guard Nelson Weston. The University of South Caro lina was chartered in 1801 by the General Assembly of South Caro lina. It is the oldest state-estab'- 4 lished and fully state-supported in stitution of higher learning in the United States. It opened its doors on January 10, 1805. After the start of the Civil War, the college buildings at Carolina were closed and occupied as hospitals for the Confederate Government. When the school re opened in 1868 it was known as the University of South Carolina. bley ~y Repps TETIE WITH THE COLOR GUIDE 88 the latest color well as traditional all planned to go 11 suits and.shirts. Lty panel of top slooted these ties ACETATER AvN