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C ocK%ly We waited a year to see our boys beat the Blue Devils, and for the first five minutes of the first half, it seemed as if our hopes and prayers had at last become a reality. On the first series of plays we took the football from our own twenty-nine yard line and pushed it over the Duke goal line. After kicking off we held mighty Duke and Caro lina was on its way again, but then things began to go bad. The breaks fell to Duke and the victory along with it. The whole team played outstandingly. We may have lost the football game, but we still have the pride and spirit to get back on the winning side. The students of Carolina can be very proud of the way they were represented at Durham last Saturday. I can not recall when I have seen a team play with their backs to the wall so much and still fight back at every opportunity. The Carolina defense was subject to much praise from ACC scouts. It wasn't until the latter part of the first half that Duke was able to move through our defensive line. The hard play of the Duke team is not what wore us down, but the heat of the sun. Both units showed that they could be tough around the goal line. Coach Bass commented that when the second team held Duke in the first half, he felt sure that it would be our day. It wasn't. Fumbles were our major enemy. Bass said that a boy fumbles when he is trying for that extra yard. It's just one of those things that all good football players are subject to. No man ever fumbles on purpose. The running attack of the Gamecocks was the best I have seen by a Carolina team. Reeves' passing was next to unstoppable. Some of his passes were dropped because of fine work by the Duke secondary, and others were on target but often a little too hard. Fullback Marty Rosen was most impressive at his new position. He still runs like a halfback, but he has the power and drive of a fullback. On several occasions it looked as if he might spring loose for a long run. Sammy Anderson only ran the ball once from scrim mage, but he caught two passes and played an outstand ingly defensive game. On one of his kick-off returns Sammy brought the crowd to its feet with what looked like it might be a touchdown run, but a Duke man slowed him up enough so that another could get a shot at him. Nevertheless, it was a brilliant run by such a little fellow. Joe Prehodka spent some of the afternoon wrestling with the Duke quarterbacks. He seemed to he hack in his old form. Despite the pictorial article in the Charlotte Ob server which was directed at Carolina's first string tackle Steve Cox, this boy played a good game. On many p)lays he forced the Duke backs to run the wrong hole or he slowed them up enough for someone else to make the tackle. Big Mike Kirkpatrick really knocked the D)uke offensive line around with his fine defensive play. The brightest picture of the whole aftern>on was the play of some sophomores who were in varsity uni forms for the first time. Jime Martin did an outstand ing job at linebacker. Danny Legat and Jerry Soles toughened up the middle of the line with their fine play at guard. Another sophomore, Ronnie Lamb, caught two passes, one which was instrumental in set ting up the second touchdown for the Gamecocks. He also made a diving catch for the extra point after the second TD. The afternoon ended on a glum note because the score board read Duke 22, Carolina 14. We had a better team than they did, but the breaks were all against us. Fumbles, penalties, and an unusual call by one of the officials on the kick-off was certainly enough to demoralize the whole team. There must have been moments when the boys thought everything was against them, but still they played on in fine fashion. The 1963 Duke game is now history, but the rest of the season still lies ahead of the Gamecocks. We can still prove that we have an excellent team. The Terra pins will be in town on Saturday night and they will be out for blood after the beating that State gave them. Our boys will be ready for that cocky bunch of Yanks, so let's get out to the Stadium and cook up a little turtle soup. Xo p9 Intramural News The 1963 Intramural season is SO fsho prtaditrs not very far off. Already the i emcmeiin leagues in both the Independent Heflstathprga b and Fraternity Divisions have beenlostohebyanitiupt drawn up. Groups of men havethmtdeiewato(0ihi. been seen hard at practice inCocBakniitrsednay preparation for the first games sgetosyumgthv hc on the 7th of October. yufe ol eei h ~o Coach Baskin continues to begrm very enthusiastic about this pro- h nrmrl fiewihi gram which he directs. Time andloaeintebtmofBldg time again he has complimented Hi pno ody hog theboy wh tae pst or hei Fndas rom th2by:ad0 t0u to5:0 Gamecoc] Losing T4 By Tom kaunter Sports Writer South Carolina took a giant ate backwards in the ACC race Satui clay afternoon, losing to Duk 22-14 before 25,000 fans. Carolina could easily wind u in fifth place at this rate, wher most pre-season polls placed then as the mediocre team they're sui posed to be. The Gamecocks were momentai ily ahead 6-0 after taking th opening kickoff a n d drivin straight down the field for th score, looking like the great teal that they are. The drive took only 12 play from scrimmage to cover the ? yards, a combination of runnin PRESS BOX NOTES BY BLANDING CLARKSON When entering any press bo or a college football contest, on ets the impression that here ar :he men who know what is goin; n, or at least they seem to. Th press box during the Duke-US tame was no exception. Every seat was occupied, wit representatives of the Carolinaf 1ewspapers out in force, from th Aiken Advertiser to the Charlott )bserver, while the m i g h t 'Gamecock" held forth from hird row aisle seat strategicall placed in the way. The situation was also furthe luttered with various teams ;couts, Maryland scouts watchinj ,he Gamecocks, Virginia scout vatching the Blue Devils an, lemson scouts looking for cows. First look at Duke Stadium re reals a concrete arena which wa probably built before our Fiel louse even. Surrounding th, )riginal stands are temporar; scaffolds which raise the seatint :apacity to 57,000, counting blade >f grass. The press box is not i part of this construction, since i is too temporary to be temporary The game actually started i mlf hour early, the North Caro ina State-Maryland game, that is since the "Gamecock" was sta ioned next to the Terrapin scouts hat game was tuned in on i ransistor set throughout thi tame on the field. After thi ~irst seven minutes, however when State had rolled up a 14-1 tead, the volume was turnedl dowi md very little was heard fron the Mary land corner thereafter. '[hle Virginia - North Carolin rontest then came into vogue, witl the Virginia scout in constant at tendlance at the "Gamecock" re porter's radlio to keep up to dati Since he was located at the op posite end of the press box, an crowded conditions made commut ing difficult, the transistor jo was finally lent to him for th dluration. Finally the big show down be low got starltedl, with severs things obviously impressing th press box occupants. The "Reevei formation" Birds driving for thel first score, their tough defensiv p)lay when dleep in their own terr tory, and that puzzling call on thi D)uke kickoff that was the turnin point. Even the so-called footba "E;xper'ts" of the press had n idea what had happened. TUhe secondi half was a differeri hall game. It has become custon: ary in these contesta. D)uke too the intiative andl began to ope holes in the defensively wear Carolina forward wail. Despite fine showing by the second unii it was the consensus that the f iv times the Birds relinquished thi ball in the opening half p)ut ther in a permanent hole that the never climbed out of. That was what happened, a seeni from and by the press box a D)uke. Still, Carohna has a fin team, andi who knows, with better press box to operate fronr maybo the "Gamecock" will hel the Gamecocks run Maryland ou of the Stadium Saturday Night. SPRING LAKE CLUB PAR 2 . peciaL Siudent Rase W /I.D. Cards 9 HOLES $1.00 18 HOLES $1.40 ALL Day $1.75 SAT. *SUN. * HOL. $2.00 1 Ml. NORTH OF FOREST LAKE N TRernHOI RDn is Begin' 3 Duke 0 'and passing. The consolation prize for I USC fans is the impressive pa p ing attack the Birds seem to hs this year. Carolina can and di e pass with considerable success they showed last week agail p Duke. e Coach Bass said later that I Gamecocks may pass more in I . future, since "last week we harr had a chance to." Dan Reeves completed ni e aerials for 116 yards and ran 66 more which should start I e Deacon off to another success n season. The most impressive statisi other than the final score, was I 3 four fumbles that Carolina lc 3 Had they not lost the ball and worst been forced to kick, it woi have meant the difference of I yards at their punting average 31 yards. Another vital statistic was t 60 yards USC was penalized co pared to only 15 for Duke. "The most critical play of I Turtle S e e r B t ilLX b k I y Fe SP n CHAR-BROILED ( t Half Poui Served With F On L Tomato an Noon "3.a.dmurk for Hungry Ame. Corner of State and Blossom CAYCEL S. C. 63 Season a Saturday game for us," Coach Bass felt, he "was the free ball foul. It came is- at a critical time and put the ball Ive deep in our territory." *e The call Coach Bass referred to as occurred on the kickoff following ist Duke's field goal. An official charged that a Carolina player he was holding while the ball was in he the air making it a free ball, that ly is Duke's ball. The Gamecocks were ahead at the time, 6-3, but ne after the Blue Devils were or awarded the pigskin, they went on he to score, putting them ahead to rul stay. Coach Bass was asked if he ic, thought the Gamecocks were im proved from last year. "I sure st. do," he began. "I am encouraged ild at the way we played. Our second 24 team is much better than last 24 year, it held Duke's first team." South Carolina takes on Mary land this week in their first home he game. Let's show the Fighting Gamecocks we are behind them this week as well as every week, he win, lose, or rained out. oup, Y'all Q moh ER TONIGHT ir Specialty - HOPPED BEEF STEAK id Choice Meat rench Fried Potatoes on Rings i Lettuce Garnish 1.65 'ti Minights 16.M350" iSes V@ N + R i Roy Chatnum stops Duke's Billy 1his was just one of the many line made in the first half against ['he Walk' "the play of these sophomores was encouraging" and that "we were good enough to beat Duke." Selected as the top offensive player was fullback Marty Rosen, a 195-pound junior from Brooklyn, New York. This was Rosen's first game at the fullback position, as he was converted from halfback at the start of fall practice this month. Marty gained 62 yards rush ing in 13 attempts for a 4.8 average per carry. He also scored the Game cocks' first touchdown on a two-yard smash up the middle to give Carolina a 6-0 lead in the first three minutes of play. ('ongratulations are in order to both Rosen and Martin, and Marty Rosen a dluplicate performance against Maryland would certainly be appreciated by the home fans, I'm sure. 2s Ns. '~ ho classic of classics in bla zors. l00% wool flannel--in the model that is the mainstay of the 'natural shoulder man. OINTS SHOP HIOW TUlAT LUNE IlEID: Emi Futrell at the line of scrimmage. fine defensive plays that the USC the Blue Devils. 'Cock O' Jim Martin, playing his first varsity game, was selected as "Cock of the Walk," by virtue of his outstanding performance against Duke last Saturday. Jim Martin Martin, a 220-pound sopho more from Johnson City, Tn Te-nessee, was rated by Gamecock coaches as the top defensive player after films were care fully studied. 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