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JOHNSON RAG Br Wate.r Johnesen There is a theory being circulated around among a select group of scientists, mostly astronomers, to the effect that the sun is burning out and that in a scant few million years the earth and all its inhabitants will freeze over. So why sliould we concern ourselves with minor things, such as winning football games? There are some skeptics who refute the above theory and say that we should concentrate on pass defense. Others be lieve the theory and say that we should live for the present. These two categories include practically all Gamecock fans. Some are optimistic, and some, like me, believe that Carolina is in for a dismal season. We should even it up this week but we will only have a winning record for one week, the week after the Wofford game. Unless something unexpected happens. Look at the schedule. After Furman comes Clemson, then Maryland, North Carolina, Duke, and Virginia. We have to beat four of them to have a winning season. Furman and probably Virginia will be victims. But who are the other two? It will have to be Clemson and North Carolina, of which I think the Tar Heels will be the easiest to overcome. Clem son looks almost too good this year. We should have a pretty good picture of the final record after the tangle with the Tigers. There is one sport around Carolina that few people know about. It is the cross country races. There is not much to say about them except that we had two meets last year. Both of them were with Clemson and we lost both by 32-26 and 31-26 scores. The schedule is a little different this year. We meet Wake Forest at home on October 13 and Clemson on October 20. Maybe the Gamecocks will win one this year. In case you are Interested, the coach is Weems Baskin. * * * * If it's any consolation to Carolina fans, the Gamecocks' best season since World War II started out along the same pattern of this year's beginning. It happened in 1947. The Gamecocks opened by beating Newberry, then lost to Maryland and were routed by Missis sippi, 33-0, before rallying to go the rest of the way without a loss and finish with a 6-2-1 record. They began their come back that year with a 26-8 victory over Furman. * * * * The freshman football team, especially King Dixon, looked pretty good in their first game. They defeated Wake Forest, 25-7. Dixon played less than half of the game and ran the ball six times. He made runs of 0, 26, 9, 12, 15, and 15 yards, which gave him a total of 77 yards for a 12.9 average. - Charles Jackson, the fullback, made 75 yards in seven tries for a 10.7 average, and W. L. Strickland, quarterback, made 63 yards in five attempts for a 12.6 average. - Larry Bennett, another quarterback, attempted five passes and completed three of them, all to end Buddy May field, for 60 yards. Not bad, huh ? Oh, yeah, Dixon also returned a punt 92 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter. Almost forgot that. *.- * * * Want a short summary of Spring sports ? Okay, here it is. In all sports North Carolina led the conference with 47 wins, 24 losses, and two ties, for a .662 percentage. Maryland was first In all competition with a 75-42-3 record. South Carolina was sixth in both the conference and in all competition. In the conference the Gamecocks had a 19-38-1 record for a .333 percentage. In all competition they had a 48-51-1 record and a .457 percentage, a little better than the ACC record, but still not good. In baseball, Wake Forest was tops with an 11-3 record. Carolina was fourth with 7-7 in the conference and 10-10 overall. They also broke even in the number of runs scored, 122 for them and 122 for the enemy. Maryland won the lacrosse wvith a 2-0 record. No doubt you readers will gobble up this bit of news with relish. In tennis, North Carolina took the crown as usual with a 5-0 record. The Tar Heels scored 40 points to their opponents' five. They had a 21-1 record in all meets. The Gamecocks were 3-3 in the conference, which gives them a fifth place standing. They were 5-6 in all meets. North Carolina took first place in the outdoor track meet with the Birds running fourth. In golf we sneaked up and took eighth, which is at the bottom of the heap. It's not very important, but anyhow, Wake Forest won out. * * * * A few more statistics, on football again. Clemson seems to dominate the conference in statistics. Don King; the Tiger quarterback, is tops in total offense with Z4 yards. Consoles of Wake Forest is second with 243 yards, followed by another Tiger, fullback Billy O'Dell with 202 rds. NqbQdy else has as much as 200 yards. In rushing, O'Dell is first with a 4.3 average, followed by Joel WElII, left halfback, with a 5.9 average and 161 yards. Conqofpi. Itaq compiled an amazing record of 25 com 4tsosin 40 attemnpts for 292 yards to lead in passing. He l4 followed by.King wIth 16 for 33 and 272 yards. .ThNans are looking bad for the home team. Predictions South Carolina 35, Furman 0 Clemson 13, Rice 7 Duke 27, William & Mary 6 North Carolina 21, Georgia 6 Georgia Tech 27, L.B.U. 7 Ohio State 20, Illinois 0 Notre Dame 20, Miami 13 Michigan 14, Army 1 Stanford 13, Michigan State 21 Oklahoma 21, Texas 0 Navy 14, Pittsburgh 7 S.M.U. 7, Missouri 6 T.C.U. 27, Alabama 14 West Virginia 42, V.M.I. 6 Wisconsin 27, Purdue 21 Star of the Week Ericeson Stands Out This week's star of the week honors chosen by The Gamecock's sports staff almost went to George Welsh of Navy. He was great. But that's against the rules and the award this week goes to another lineman, guard R i c k Ericcson. One of the few bright spots in a generally depressing picture, this 6-8, 210-pound junior was a stand out in Carolina's 26-0 loss. Twice he broke through to throw Navy backs for losses at critical moments and he was on top of the play all afternoon. The preceding week Rick was unique in that it was he who broke up the only incomplete pass thrown by Wake Forest's Nick Consoles in the first half. A converted end, Rick hails from Maplewood, N. J. He played first string end with Julius Derrick his freshman year and was converted to guard last year at mid-season. A trifle slow for an end, he is con sidered fast for a guard and con sidered by Coach Rex Enright as one of the most improved players on the team. In less than a year, Rick jumped from fourth string end to first string guard. He was probably the outstanding defensive player on the field in the Navy game. Carolina's leading offensive player was probably Derrick, the sophomore star who is highly touted as a pass receiver. Derrick caught three passes, including one for a 46-yard gain to Navy's three with a minute left in the game. He had another reception can celled because of a penalty. Joining Derrick on the honor able mention list is Co-captain Hugh Bell who gave his beat per formance of the season as a line backer. Bell looked fully recovered from a sprained ankle suffered just before practice began. USC's Gamecocks, who poAsess one of the nation's top quarter backs in Mackie Prickett, unveiled a promising sophomore at that position against Wofford in the season's opener. Bobby Bunch, a Summerville boy playing in his first varsity game, ran the team like a veteran, gained 57 yards on 11 tries on the split-T option play and completed the' only two passes he threw for 38 yards. Carl Brazell, USC's 165-pound halfback, started the 1965 season appropriately by running 87 yards for a touchdown the first time he handled the ball against Wofford. TOPS IN PASSING . .. Jack Hall, a quarterback who will probably be seeing a lot of action with the Gamecocks, leads the team in pass ing. He ha. completed seven out of 18 attempts for 99 yards. He has tad only one intercepted. (Photo by Manning Harris) Furman I Birds Are (The following article was prepared by Dr. Daniel W. Hol lis, University of South Chro lina history department and of ficial University historian. The material was uncovered by Dr. Hollis while doing research for his second volume on the his tory of the University of South Carolina which will be published this winter.) When Carolina's football team plays Furman Saturday it will mark the 89th renewal of a rivalry that officially began in 1895. Un Sfficially, however, the series dates back to a game in Charleston on Christmas Eve, 1892. Intercollegiate football began in South Carolina when Furman played Wofford in Spartanburg on December 14, 1889, and for a few years these two institutions fielded the only teams in the state. In terest in football at the South Carolina College (which became the University in 1906) was greatly stimulated by a game in Columbia between Furman and rrinity (now Duke) on Oct. 14, 1891. It was the capital city's First game. Birds Get Team Carolina students began thinking Df having a team of their own, and in the following year a member of the staff of the Charleston News and Courier arranged for a game between Furman and a pickup team from the South Carolina Col lege. A b o u t 500 Charlestonians turned out at the baseball park to witness this exhibition of the new sport. They left the St. Charles Hotel in omnibuses about 2 p. m. with Furman wearing purple, while the Carolina boys were Iressed in "regular football shirts and red caps." The Furman team was known as the "Mountaineers" In those days, but Carolina had no name other than The News and Courier sobriquet, "College Boys." Carolina supporters wore Garnet and Black in their lapels. Furman AUTO LIABILIT Special for Sti Mendel C. Bi Real Estate, Auto, Lij D-4B Carovet Apartments LOOK A CI Drive with cure ... EVERYWNI Great Features back up Che rigger Rear Springs -Body Every checkered fin Chevrolet vktory In of tompetition-not on but against many hlgh-prka )efeats U Inexpert was coached by Professor H. P. Young, formerly of Brown Uni versity, w}o also played quarter back. There were no eligibility rules in those days. Carolina had no coach, and the hastily assem bled team was forced to press two Charlestonians into service. Fur man protested the presence of the two non-students, but agreed to let them play rather than break up the game. Singleton Green, one of the Carolina backs, played under an assumed name because his father was opposed to football. Furman Wins Experience paid dividends, and Furman scored 16 points in the first half, which ended "with the College men blue and not a point to their credit." According to the News and Courier, the Carolina boys played a "rattling good game" for awhile in the second half, but the Furman "razzle dazzle" proved too much for them and the Baptists emerged with a 44-0 victory. The Carolinian, Carolina cam pus magazine, wrote that after the game the team boarded the train for home "slightly disfig ured, but still in the ring." The Carolinian also dispensed some good advice to all football fans by concluding its account of the game with a little poetry: Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: it might have been, But more consoling and just as terse, Are these few words: it might have been worse. Carolina Wins Carolina fielded its first regu lar team in 1894, hired its first coach in 1896, and turned the tables on Furman 14-10. The Garnet and Black was again victorious in 1900 and 1901, but the Baptists won in 1902, an event Furman stu dents celebrated by running down the field holding aloft a big rooster Y INSURANCE Rates idents iykin Agency e, and Fire Insurance Phone 6.3071 Day or Night T ALL THE fE VROLE T' El vrolet Performance: Anti-Dive Braka w' Fisher-12-Volt Electrical System. L.et's t your.kin * signals * have fas the tracl cIdal 1955 stock car passing iy against its own filid gtt american and foreign pier mot big, fast d cars, tool curate s make ye and drivi See Your Ch SC First; enced swathed in Garnet and Black with his tail feathers plucked. By 1908 the name 'Gamecocks" was defi nitely established. Furman abol ished football for a decade begin ning In 1908, and the teams did not play again , until 1916, with Furman winning 14-0. Since that date the Institutions have played almost every year, ex cept during World War II when Furman temporarily gave up the game. During the 1920's Furman teams were the terror of South Carolina intercollegiate football, and the Purple Hurricane de prived the Gamecocks of the state championship in 1921, 1924 and 1925. Old Days Gone Carolina leads the series with 1 21 victories to Furman's 17. There I has been one tie. Since World War II Furman has I been unable to compete on even terms with Carolina and Clemson 1 (although Furman upset Carolina 14-7 in 1949), but countless alumni I of those two state - supported schools have vivid memories of 4 miserable November afternoons when the big wind from Greenville unleashed its fury upon the Tigers I and Gamecocks. NO MORE PROBI Our Centra OPEN TILL Al 1415 Gerv Two Blocks fron After classes or on your way and dry cleaning with us. 80-Minute Lau Washed-Dried-Fe Many items ready 8 cents a lb.-1 SUNSHIA 1415 GERVAIS (Two B 801 MAIN ST. (One B CHECKER EL B COLLECTE ng-Ball-Race Steering-Out Nine Engine-Drive Choices. ranslate these victories into I of driving. 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