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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.
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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
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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1his was just one of the many
line made in the first half against
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"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,
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Jim Martin, playing his first
varsity game, was selected as
"Cock of the Walk," by virtue
of his outstanding performance
against Duke last Saturday.
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more from Johnson City, Tn
Te-nessee, was rated by Gamecock
coaches as the top defensive
player after films were care
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