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A , r1 Gary Gregor Pulls Dow Efforts B3 Laughlin. Despite By TONY SMITH Asst. Sports Editor Diver Vic Laughlin twice gavc the University its first individua swimming championship last week during the ACC Swimming Cham pionships which were held in the USC pool. Vic easily won both the one- an< three-meter springboard d i v i n g competition in the meet w h i c I b e g a n on Thursday and laste< through Saturday. H i s victoria; earned him two gold medals. Only three other swimmers managed t< place first in more than one event In the one-meter diving competi. tion Vic earned 456.30 points t< the 355.05 points of second-place finisher Dave Fox of Maryland. In the three-meter competitiori Vie managed 462.60 points to sec ond-place finisher Fox's 341.80 But Vic waos not happy with his performance in that event during the preliminaries. As Vic put i-t, "I just wasn't up to par." He cited for comparison his performance against East Car olina College during the regular season. In that meet he scored 303 points in six 'dive. In the preliminaries to the three meter diving comnpettion last week he scored the same number of points in nine dives, Hie picked up 161 points in the last three dives of the preliminaries, one of which will be a required dive in the NCAA Championships to be held at Michigan State in East Lansing, Mich., March 23-25. Especially distressing to Vic was the way he "blew" one of his best dives. What should have been a gainer with a two and one-half twist ended up in what Vic de scribed as a "reverse, screaming lurch-around." Both Vie and his diving coach, COACH G W-s-< I~ W --Ur 11 Gamecock photo by Cox n A Rebound In Spite Of A Cavalier Not Happy )ual Wins John Candler, felt that he suffered a mental beating by performing such a poor dive. Presently, they are working on a change in Vic', takeoff for his dives to give him more control and stability once he leaves the board. Now that the conference race has been decided, Vic is working towards the NCAA Championships and also toward the AA U Cham pionships to be held in Dallas, Texas, April 6-8. Muller By TON' Asst. Spo Bill Muller was a happy y< noon, in a disheartening sorti "Breezy," as he is called I swimming team, had just brok 200-yard breaststroke during ming Championships being he His time of 2:18.0 was the event and bettered the old r Springer of Maryland. But Bill finished second t old record with a fantastic tii The defeat was especially qualifying for the NCA A natic Bill, who completely shavet down on his time, was excited new record in order to beat h He said, "I am real happy. lap when Springer caught up to turn in his best time ever feel great, even though I lost. Bill added that his time p1 breaststrokers in the country a chance at making an All-Am He has already qlualified hopes for a time below 2:17 meet, which will be held in D)al Commenting on his top-flig ming Coach Jack Thompson sa ing individual swimmer in the EORG3E ThRRY Game Saturt By DONALD CAUGHMAN Sports Editor The USC basketball team closes out its regular season Saturday night when it takes on the North Carolina Wolfpack for the third time in Raleigh. The teams split close decisions in the first two games - N. C. State winning, 76-73, in the finals of the Triangle Tournament in December and the Gamecocks taking a 65-62 overtime victory in the North-South Doubleheader two weeks ago. The first game does not count in ACC standings. The Gamecocks are enjoying one of their better seasons in recent years while N. C. State is strug gling through one of it worst. The Wolfpack has counted heavily on young players after losing All ACC performer Eddie Biedenbach to an injury before the season began. After the N. C. State game Coach Frank McGuire's squad will begin preparations for the annual ACC Tournament which will open in Grensboro, N. C., Thursday afternoon. Senson records will be thrown out the window in determining who will r e p r e s e n t the conference in the i(NCAA playoffs, and everything will ride on the three-day affair. The North Carolina Tar Heels, currently one of the nation's top rated teams, will play the fa vorite's role, but as has been proved in the past, anything can happen. The Duke Blue Devils, tourna ment winners in three of the last four years and defending ACC Champions, will be the second seeded team and are expected to give the Tar Heels some tough competition. Duke defeated N. C. State in the finals last year and went on to finish third in the NCAA Tour nament. Rounding out the league's first division are Clemson and USC(. The appy SMITH .ts Editor lung man last Saturday after >f way. y his teammates on the USC en the USC meet record in the the finals of the ACC Swim Id in the Carolina Pool. fastest he had ever swam the acord of 2:18.5 set by Doug a Springer, who bettered his ne of 2:16.5. hard on Bill, for he missed nals by one-tenth of a second. his body for the meet to cut about pushing Springer to a tin. I did pretty well until the last ,vith me on the turn. He had to beat me. That makes me aced him among the top ten md he hopes it will give him erica swimmer. for the AAU Nationals and when he competes in that las, Texas, April 6-8. ht breaststroker, USC Swim d, "Bill is the most outstand history of the school." Georg, Bly DON HU;LT Staff Writer In most vocations, when an individual accumulates a few decades of experience in his chosen field, he usually loses his enthusiasm. An exception to this maxim is football coaching, where such g r i dir on granddaddies as Gerge Hlalas of the Chicago Bears and Frank Howard1 of Clemson, greet each grid season with a boyish enthusiasm. Carolina's own George Terry still looks forward to the up coming football season with the same great enthusiasm, how ever, in a different capacity than to which he is accustomed. For Coach Terry has had a dual role in USC's athletic hier archy -- head defensive coach for the football team and as -ocks la y Tigers, with four seniors in the start ing lineup and two in resrve, have one of their best teams in years. Clemson has a firm hold on third place while the Gamecocks are a sure fourth. ACC Swi State D By STEVE L.IPE Staff Writer Defending champion North Car olina State dominated the 14th an nual Atlantic C o a s t Conference s w i m m i n g championship at the Carolina pool Saturday to walk away with its second straight team -hampionship. The Gamecocks placed fourth in the meet. It is the second straight eason that the Carolina swimmers Despit RILL 11 I Terry sitdirvet.or of athletics. However, when the athletic department was almost fklooed with administrative redi tape he had to leave the football field to spjendl all his time in the of fice. It is a change that Coach Terry has made most relue tantly, however, for he has been on the football field in somne capacity spince his junior high school days at Newport. A rk. almost four dlecadeks ago. A fter high school he spent two years at George WVashington U'niver sity and two more at the College of the 0 z a r k s, Clarksville, where he earned his B.A. Ile lettered in football, basketball, and baseball at both schools. He entered the Navy in 1942, serving four years andl attain ing the rank of lieutenant-coin niandnr. In 146t he -wo Close ;ainst In the opening round of last year's play, USC handed Clemson a 60-52 loss and were defeated themselves the next night by N. C. State, 75-62. This season marks only the second mmere leave Starting Blocks Ii lcet At Carolina Pool Last Wee ommnatc finished in the first divisi07n. North Carolina fini"hed a .trong ,ccond while %tar'land was firml., entrenched in third place. The U n ive r s ity of V'irgini., placed sixth, while Clemson, Wtakr Forest, vnd Duke rounded out the second division. N. C. State's Steve Rerych w as one of the outstanding swimmers of the three-day meet. He succe'-s fully defe,nded the 50- and 200 ULIER mencds oachString carver on lee( leveln Pnt-l 11 e he(' Jfined inthe focing (vstaff at lN>uisian .atelnz univhedrsit OnEId ie e ar'la LS iras Wst Poneintii th eirs placoac whoa wud thwle themsoany oak lendgaisotonhe. iirmdl drums. Stee Sean th was cion of Paue ietzendnd hwies ofit.hin threeda yesthi Hentccss pall brough~t I' t he zenf(.ih nhsLo ssoitonwt has bcomeampoct oto spei :ss AEn,thhamui mr wie high wtho the aven of lharnhnle n nel, untia . whnh Out S N. CO in the 14-year history of the confer. ence that two non-"Big Four" teams have finished in the league's fir,ta division. In 1964 Clemson finished in third place while the Gamnecocks finished fourth. A I.I Gamecock photo by Reekhls n L.eagute k s Meet yarJl freestyle events which he won last year and set an ACC nt t record in winning the 100- 1 yard freestyle in 47 :7. Gamecock swinmner Hill M u I I e r plaeced seeieond in the 200-y ard breast- 1 ,troke with a 2:18.0 tinee. Marn hana Doug Springer won the event s h po,ting a 2:16.5 time, an ACC 1 :ll-conpetition record. Carolina's ace diver Vic Laugh lin amassed 42.(;0 points to easily win the diving competition and re m:iin undefeated for the second s raight y e a r. Laughlin is now practi.ng for the NC.AA Cham pion.hips to le held later this month. John Candler, his diving in structor, feels that "Vic should i make All-America on both the one and three-meter boards. He will be I our first." Heoad 'w imn coach Jack Thomnps.on Raid, "I was veryv pleaMed not only with the meet, but also with the interest shown by the students." I "We s h o u 1 d have a strong-er team next year," said Thompson, I "and we will be- in conr.ntion for a possible thierd place standing in ' the A CC." N. C. St.ate s h oulId he the strong-est team in the confermce again next setason. "Their team will be primarily co m p o sed of seniors," r e m a r k e d Thompson. r "However, our boys will be- a threat to ca pt ur e third place, ~ rspecially if the ACC passes the d freshmen eligibility rule in May." ' The ACC~( will dl e ci d e in May whether or not freshmen will he al. t lowed to part.icipate in all varsity C' sports except football and basketball. iseral conferenceL, including the a "outhe'astern Conference, have al- r readyl appIroled the rule. g use of split ends and flankers." wo ('onsequently football has he- ou1 'a'me more enjoyable to the wil public. t;ar The upsurge in public inter 'st has brought about a change lin n schedouhrng policy among most aw 4t he major college teams. Not -ol 'ny teams are' interapersing dtel heir s e h e d u I C' s with 'cream ing uiffs' as in the past, hut are thE ehedluhng t o u g h competition Al: yeek after week to draw sellout dei rowds. p0: Teams now scrimmage k as at n the Practice field to insure lin 'xing injury free for the tough >pponents they face every Sat- fu1 irday. Hlowever, despite the ad- tic vent of the passing game and but he trend of less hard-knocking eva m the practice field there are en, t ill two 'g u t t y' ingredients thi wiithout which a team will not an w'in: blocking and taing. You vmi eason State USC will play either Maryland >r Wake Forest in the final game rhursday night, depending on the )utcome of the Terrapin - Demon [eacon game in Winston - Salem ;aturday night. Virginia Upsets Carolina 1y JOHN DAVID SPADE Staff Writer Despite leading in field goal Lmd free throw percentages and wringing down 13 more rebounds, oach F r a n k McGuire's Game ock's lost in overtime to Virginia, '1-68, last Saturday night. Carolina had a three-point lead Lnd possession of the ball with one ninute remaining in regulation )lay when Skip Harlicka's despa -ation pass went out of bounds. rhen, with 0:33 remaining, Chip .ase moved the Cavaliers within mne with a shot from the corner. Foul Try Jack Thompson then hit on a 'oul try, but Mike Katos hit with ):13 to tie it up at 59-59 at the nd of regulation play. Gary Gregor, who had an ex eptional night in a losing battle vith 13 rebounds, hit on a foul hot to give the Gamecock's the cad for the last time. In the overtime, foul shots ga%e irginia the victory. The Cava iers made six points on foul shots n the over::me and six on field roals, while South Carolina also it on three from the floor, but tad only three points on foul hots. No Momentum H o t h Harlicka and Thompson ouled out in the overtime period s they tried to give the Gamecocks .hat winning nmomentun w h i r h hey never achieved. Ilarlicka hit on 11 of 14 from he flor and was three for four rom the line for a total of 25 )oint_s and high scoring honors for he night. Thompson also hit in the k>uble figures with 11 points and iad four a&mists. With Frank St.andard out with badly swollen ankle, McGuire tartaed Skip Kickey in his place. t was the first game in1 which he 6-7 junior has appeared this isason. Hie has been recovering rom a pre,se'as<m shoulder opera ion. 50 Per Cent The G;ameock's fi n is h ed the .ight hitt,ing on 50 per ce'nt of ieir field goals and 70.6 per cent f their foul shots. They pulled own 39 rebounds to only 26 for irginia. Virginia scored 19 points from -ie foul line to 12 for the Ganme cks. Al Salvadori added 11 points nd L.yn Hurkholder grabbed nine aboundls in a game in which Vir inia never led in the second half. ZaOch n't move the ball a foot with blocking and your opponent I score at leisure if you can't kle." is for the future of Caro s's athletics "everyone is ait>ing the construction of the seum and there is also a inite need for expanded seat at Carolina Stadium due to growth of the student body. eo a number of Carolina stu its have inquired into the isibility of addi.tional sports USC such as soccer, wrest g, and lacrosse." ['hese offer a n um b er of uire challenges to our athle- E' program due to space and dg'eting limitations." How 'r, enthusiastic and experi- ~ red George Terry has always -ied on ehalkenges as a coach ~ di welcomes them as an ad nlistratnor