Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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sportopics _____81__ 11ADGElS Sport8 Editor Spring training being well under way and with three rough practice sessions behind them, the men who will rep resent the Gamecock eleven have shown little or no effect from the hard body contact they have encountered thus far. The men must have been in fairly good condition before Monday which means that they have been working hard on their own in preparation for Spring football drills. Their willingness to devote their spare time to conditioning them selves will show in the long run which will have a large bear ing on fielding the type of team that Coach Warren Geise and his staff are pinning their hopes on. I was very fortunate in catching Coach Geise in one of his very few free moments this week and had a very interest ing chat with him on progress made so far and got his at titude concerning the football situation here at Carolina and what he hopes for in the future and just what he will require of the men who will represent the University of South Caro lina on the gridiron next fall. Spring training will consist of twenty practice sessions allowed by the NCAA. Here at Carolina the sessions will be held differently than they have been in the past. Usually they have been each day of the week but now practices are every other day being on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 4 to 6 P. M. with scrimmages scheduled for each Satur day at 2 P. M. There will be six quarters of these Saturday scrimmages held under game conditions and they will be held at Carolina Stadium and open to the public. Coach Geise and staff have two reasons for these days between each practice. First of all, Tuesday and Thursday are big lab days and with so mapy of the players missing practices at one time it would be at a disadvantage to hold practice with a great number of men absent. Secondly, the coaches feel that the men need the day's rest between prac tices in order to give their best on Friday and Saturday which are most important days. Coach Geise indicated that the last two weeks of Spring training will consist of polishing! up on fundamentals of offense and defense. Our head coach is very impressed by the enthusiasm shown by the players and stated that it is the best he has ever seen during his coaching career. lie pointed out that there was much to be done and much progress to be made in order for the Birds to compete on even terms with Duke, Maryland, and other top national powers but if the boys con tinue to show this spirit and enthusiasm, we will be able to field a representative team next Fall. Ile emphasized the importance of Spring practice and stated that the team in the Fall will be determined by the foundations laid in the Spring. Coach Geise reiterated the importance of Spring practice by saying the group from which the traveling squad will be picked should be fairly well defined by the progress made by the players in Spring training. One of the big changes which possibly is in the making is the housing of the athletes over the campus. According to Coach Geise, this will be left up to the players as he plans to talk the situation over with them following the conclusion of Spring practice and if they wvould like this and if it can be arranged with the housing officials, it shall be dlone. This would not, include first semester freshmen. ('oach Geise thinks these boys should be kept together for counciling and the many other problems wvhich confront new freshmen. I agree with our Coach that by having the varsity players over the campus, it would better the relations among the * p)layers and other students. It woul mean the students would know the lay5ers they are supporting, it would dlefi nitely help in doing what so many students are wvorking so hard to do now, increase the school sp)irit, andl it would tend to change the attitude of so many students, that athletes are more or less a different type student and should be isolated. This is absolutely wrong as we are getting men in now for athletics than we can be proud of. Men with fine character and good scholastic background. When om coaches contact high schools concerning athletes these (days, they will not even talk with them unless they are highly recommended by heir high school principal. ('oach Geise is very imp)ressedwthhei(rsthov by th e admrfinistration, faculty, and tepbi Oth thei Swimmers End Regular Season eetia 3 o u t h CarIolina's. - wimmiers endedl teir re4gular seas1oIn meets last weekl~(~( end wi two lop)-sidedlm c a ia losses to I )avidsoni and D)uke, thus endinig a very dlisma)l season1. Coach .1 immy Ratli ff has very high hopes tht h mny onvastys im-ys mer's on the campus wvill come to Shis rescue next season and giveLeARAtl his team a boost. It seems to me YU it that. it would he v'ery hard to sit btack andl watch our varsity takeDyaianCat such shellackinigs wheni it would he soes to make us a contenider. So,ctoMehnia niext season, fellow stud(enlts, let'sI get with it and make sure our S.AM hno swtimmin)g teami mioves forward.vitsyucap The~ fintal point standings of Iteu Paeen f G;amecocks are as follows: llaranski -40.08 Camipbelil--34.67 (including four ~ o ye~ first pilaces oJut of eight attempts)MrChls lta iley--32.08IAuunerto fT Turner.--29.75i Hla rdee-21 .67AR Itheredge -21.00IDiionAeiaI Gimes -19.00I 1,ef ferts-8.75IGre Ct,Ln Meyera-6.00 Amechanical A ..GFWY R/ZEILUWY UR Birds Close Regular Season Tomorrow Carolina, on the rebound from a gloomy weekend defeat at the hands of underdog Georgia Tech, trimmed Clemson, 89 to 83 on Tuesday night for the second time this season. The win, as of game time, assured Coach Frank Johnson's team of sixth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference stand ings. South Carolina will probably be paired with I)uke or North Carolina in the conference tournament at Raleigh next weekend. Furman hosts the Gamecocks tomorrow night in Textile Hall, the season's final. Carolina is favored to turn the trick again on the high-scoring Purples, on the basis of its Lee-Grady punch and defensive superiority. Significant of the game is, should the Birds win, they will have established themselves as basketball leaders in the Palmetto State for the first time since the Furman of Frank Selvy days. In one of the wildest and most hotly contested games of the year, Carolina's Gamecocks bounced back into the win column with a spine-tingling 89-83 win over the hapless Clemson Tigers. Grady Wallace, after a cold first half, found the range early in the second period and literally burned the nets as he totaled 35 points for the evening. The game was to be a corker from the start and the lead changed hands around fifteen times before the evening was over. Both players and coaches got in the act and became heated at times during the game. The half-time score was 43-42 in Clemson's favor but the Birds were not to be denied and took a commanding lead in the second half never to be headed again. The Gamecocks dropped their home final to Georgia Tech last Saturday in a close though lack-luster game. A fair size crowd of University and Columbia tans clapped and stomped vigorously until the end in hopes Carolina could pull it out. But the Engineers from Atlanta outshot and generally out maneuvered the home team for the better part of the game. Despite a coldwave in field goal shooting, the Gamecocks fought back close a hatful of times, once chopping down an eleven-point Tech margin midway of the first period. Carolina started off the second period by dunking seven quick points, and took the lead for the first time, 40-39. Tech immediately struck back to make it 41-40. and from then on out refused to be budged. Lee Collins, not quite as colorful as usual, nevertheless sunk 25 points in the last home game of his career for South Carolina. Wallace fell six points off his average, scoring 17. department's phase of the next season let's say six wins University program. He is and four losses with Coach also greatly elated over the Geise being picked as coach of school spirit shown by the the year in the ACC. And now, students so far and com- Ito go into hiding until Warren mented that the demonstra- and his staff forget this melle(l hatthe emontrastatement. tion at the Carolina-Furman statement basketball game was the best he had ever' seen and he is keeping his fingers crossed G* that this typ)e thing will con tinue on through the football season. CO Now, in leaving you forI another week, I would like to dlirect this final comment to our prIospect ive footballers. What dloes Coach Giese expect f'rom a candlidate out for his team? A player has to have tremendlous dlesir'e, quickness of movement, andl average speedl to qjualify. How many with these qualities (10 we have? I believe the entire sqfuadl will come through andl we will have one of' the best teams we have had in many a y'ear. In awild prediction for ~ ~ engineers engineers Dists rithi you about re in the enging Field of Instrumentation r representative s shortly. Ask icer for details. (siq,dries to: i. Fernow *rp ~iancal Education osch Arma Corp. Island, N.Y. Page Seven 4 jEPO Buy it in the handy 6 bottle carton Only Chevrolet puts you in charge of the dynamite action and sure-fire handling qualities it takes to break the Pikes Peak record! Better try it before you buy any car at any price. I~~jAlmost everybodv likes a reatW ear. .\nd nowadays you ~ no longer have to pay a Lin g> rant! o Iw one. They're going at ('hevrolet p)rice-! h'or y he~ nw ( htxvrolet is one of the r oiii'few truly great road cars being buib today! 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