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Game BILLY NIES By TOM HUNTER Sports Writer This week the largest schoo spirit promotion in the history o1 the University got underway witr plans to plow the Clemson Tiger: under come Saturday. Student Body officials, cheer. leaders, Pep Club and Block "C' Club members fired the first gur but the final impact must bi carried out by the Carolina stu. dents. USC was victimitized last weel by a student - backed, 17-poini underdog Wake Forest team. Tho upset stemmed from the high s pirite d student body, half of whom turned out for the pregamf practice to cheer their Deacons on PlAYER COMMENTS Some of the seniors who couk be reached were asked about tht up coming game. These boys stant 1-1 with the Tigers and this Sat urday the winner of the series wil be decided. (AWthor of and "I SHOULD AULD AND JAZZ I am now an elderly gentlem my thoughts keep ever turning is called "arrested developmen But I cannot stop the heidi over me as I recall those goldei buildings (actually, at my colle those pulse-tingling lectures Mather, the many friends I n I know some of you are air< graduate and lose touch with my pleasant task today to as, all you have to do is join the Al you will receive a bright, new tidings about your old buddies Oh, what a red-letter day Alumni Biulletin arrives!i I car phone off the hook, dismiss cheetah outside, and settle dov with the Bulletin and (need I Cigarettes. I :s. E DM.,Hi Whenever I am having fun, more fun. That filter, that fla firm Flip Top box, never fails I am playing Double Canfield an afghan or enjoying any ol name-except, of course, spea spear fishing does one do in C But I digress. Let us retur fascinating news about my ok from the current issue: "Well, fellow alums, it certi year for us old grads!i Remerr Camembert, those crazy kids ' Well, they're married now an where Harry rents spear-fishin, given birth to a lovely 28-pot months. Nice going, Mildred "Remember Jethro Brie, ti succeed? Well, old Jethro is s he was voted 'Motorman of t1 the Duluth streetcar system. said Jethro in a characteristi Same old Jethro I "Probably the most glamo alums was had by Francis Mi big game hunting safari all the interesting post cards from dentally shot and killed by hii luck, Francisal "Wilametta 'Deadeye' Mac Francis Macomber, was marr Sigafoos, white hunter, in a Nairobi. Many happy returni "Well, aluims, that just al Buy bonds I" (ld grad., new grad., under that good Richmond tobaci Alter, have t urned all nity si Country. Won't unu Join thi cocks STEVE COX "This week every boy on the field will have his greatest per 3onal challenge before him," said 3tarting end Billy Nies. "We feel we have let the school and the coaches down, and I think this game Saturday will be the greatest effort seen by a Gamecock team," said the Rock Hill lad. Joe Prehodka expressed it this way. "Just to show the people it wasn't the fault of Coach Bass, this would be the one we want to win. All the chips are in the pot," the New Jersey senior added, "And we won't be saving anything. Everything is going into this game." Carl Huggins, fullback from Mullins, thinks that, "if we play defense like we did at Memphis or North Carolina and move the ball, I don't see how we can help but heat them." MEET THE TIGERS Coach Ralph Floyd laid the cards on the table at the Monday 'Rally Round the Flag, Boyal" arefoot Boy With Cheek.") ACQUAINTANCE LIKE THAT n, full of years and aches, but to my undergraduate days. This t." ng tide of nostalgia that washes 1 campus days, those ivy-covered ge, there was only ivy: no bricks), on John Dryden and Cotton made, the many deans I bit. ady dreading the day when you all your merry classmates. It is :ure you that it need not be so; umni Association and every year sy, chatty bulletin, chock-full of 1. it is at my house, the day the ceel all my engagements, take the my resident osteopath, put the ~m for an evening of pure pleasure add?) a good supply of Marlboro a Marlboro makes the fun even ror, that yielding soft pack, that to heighten my pleasure whether or watching the radio or knitting her diverting pursuit you might ir fishing. But then, how much lovis, New Mexico, where I live? i to my Alumni Bulletin and the I friends and classmates. I quote oinly has been a wing-dinger of a ber Mildred Cheddar and Harry rho always held hands in Econ II? d living in Clovis, New Mexico, g equipment,and Mildred has just nd daughter, her second in four and Harry! ie man we voted most likely to till gathering laurels! Last week te Year' by his fellow workers in 'I owe it all to my brakeman,' eally modest acceptance speech. rous time had by any of us 01(1 scomber last year. lie went on a way to Africa! We received many F'rancis until he was, alas, acci wife and white hunter. Tough amber, widow of the late beloved ied yesterday to Fred 'Sureshot' simple double-ring ceremony in ;, Wilametta and Fred!i out wraps it up for this year. C 1963 Ma: Shulman * S grads, and non-grads all agree; o ,ecipe, that clean Selectrate tes of thme Union into Marlb>oro thrnng? ef ore iN JOHNNY KING 1e a ill io 1DAN REEVES 1e Te ka ,Y mer aff to PETE DI VENERE second half of the season. But they ss had their troubles in th winless ?d first half. 3 xcoomiaion { r~an" pas: f The " for FORMALBas NTAL SERVICE r....rush ..waLi. . l ..fidget i...stop f. filled 0 ireak etter/ Coke GoB. i.. DAN IE(AT morning press conference as discussed the team that he h seen four times this season. "Clemson is aggressive, stror and they have a lot of morale goji for them," he bagan. "Their pas ing supplements their running at their running supplements th< passing." The Coach thinks that the re son Clemson has a good footba team is "because on third dom and short yardage they have be able to make the first down at keep the drive going." Another factor that has play a big part in the four wins is t second unit, which scored all thr TD's for the Tigers last we OFFENSIVELY AND DEFENSIVEI Although fourth in the A( with a 4-2 mark, Clemson will at or near the top in total offe siv^ and defense in this weel statistics, Coach Floyd suspects. In the last four games the Be gal have p u s h e d across 1 points and given up 13. The 1-2 punch of fullbacks P Crain and Bob Swift have a counted for some 750 yards th season and could be a problem the Gamecocks. FUMIILEITIS The Tigers are a good team has been shown in the undefeat FOR ALL YOUI Yes, that smart, distin rented, Convenient an MODERN RI course: regi'ste stand., shuffle twitch. ...yawi move.. nearer ...pau! take a I ...things go b with !atioE ED IEHTWIU; he number of times that Clem has fumbled in their ninc es is 46. They have scored only ethrough the air and their defense is quite vulnerable y can be beaten. $64,000 QUESTION ow will South Carolina preparc the game this week, Coact s was asked. "That's the $14, question," he answered. nie way the teami could bt tally prepared would be by ar rmative attitude of the studeni v towards the team. This would for an about face on the parl nanystudents' attitudes.c ~ - N HNGR? HOIC OF ENT he nuber f tietaCln defnd icuie PurEle skian bl)aeasfomrz yours bsed. rdThat' the $;4 moustin"h answerted sh ne wy th tea cUldb TOM4 } TOM GIRSON THE GAMECOCK$ oo0 Coior% arc:.. nf . "We have a game spirit instead of a school spirit." "You play harder when people are behind you." "W\e could do what Wake Forest did to us if as many students would show the interest that Wake Forest received." These were a few of the heart felt comments a few of the players made. Let's face up to the facts, Students, and beat Clemson. MEET COACII HOWARD "I'm gonna catch hell if South Carolina heats us this week," said Frank Howard as he talked to sports writers after the Maryland game. ou can always find what y SHIMMY'S RESTAURANT, 11 LUNCHES START AT 65c EE, 2 VEGETABLES, BREAD, BUTTE| L BROILED STEAK S R GAMECOCK SPECIAL $' FRIES, FRESH TOSSED SALAD AND SERVES THIS ITEM GENUINELY CHI OPEN 24 HOURS DAILY COLUM~ hle fliggest Liade Place In Tou F/c ing! Covers completely! 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