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Freshmi By DON HULT Staff Writer Pride Ratterree, freshman foot ball coach, has admitted that the 1967 Biddie squad "does have some players who have 1 o o k e d very impressive in the team's first week of practice." The team, including 41 scholar ship players, repored to Ratterree on August 31 and worked out twice daily till last Saturday's scrim mage with the varsity. The Biddies then did not prac tice again until yesterday in order to allow the players to participate in orientation activities. Also this week a number of non scholarship freshman football can didates reported. Coaches h o p e -IsU C For C 'J "I.'w By JAY BEND)ER Asst. Sports Editor USC was rep)resented by Ath lectic TIrainer Jim Price at the Pan-American Games this sum Hie was a member of the 15 per son medlical staff with the U. S. team in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This medical team had eight men trainers, three team doc tors, two women trainers and (DFive ACC Open Seasc Five teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference will open their sea sons Saturday while the remaining teams wait for the starting gun. TIwo of the openers will be nighttime affairs. South Carolina will meet Iowa State in an inter sectional clash in Columbia, andl D)uke and Wake Forest will battle it out in Raleigh. North Carolina will meet N. C. State in Saturday's lone afternoon game involving ACC teams. Pre-season favorite in the con ference seems to be Clemson where 46 letternmen return to the fold. Hack for the Tigers are Jimmy A d d i s on , 148-pound quarterback; Buddy Gore, full back; and linemen Wayne Mass. and Harry Olszewski. Other teams remain in the run nling, however. A look at the ACC teams, excluding USC, follows. D)uke, with TIom Harp begin ning his second season as head coach, will go into action with an E'xperiencedl defense andl an of fense led by fullback Jay Cala birese, who last year ranked second( in A CC scoring. Coach Says en Imp] that a number of genuine prospects among the non-scholarship players will give depth to the team. Coach Ratterree and his staff said they were impressed by the confidence the team showed in its scrimmage with the varsity Satur (lay. Although the match was played in torrential rain and although young players o f t e n experience "stage fright" in their first con tact against the varsity, this year's frosh reportedly gave a good ac count of themselves. The starting backfield had at quarterback Torn Suggs, 1966 S. C. Class B Player of the Year who led Lamar to the 5-B champion ship; at left halfback Tom Trevil lian, a 6 foot, 200 pounder from Hampton, Va.; at fullback, Chris Bank of Joliet, Ill.; and at right yclone rameco ~r' 14, A staff Poole Boots FG Train in~ American~ two nurses, who cared for the approximately 300 A m e r i c a n athletes. Price was trainer for the men's track team and the field hockey team wvhile in Canada. During the trials at the University of Minne sota he had the duty of serving as trainer for the women's teams in track, volleyball, gymnastics and basketball until the two women trainers arrivedl. Contenders n Saturday Wake Forest will have 22 let termnen returning from a squad that last year p)osted a 3-7 slate, Returnees include Robert Grant, senior tackle, one of the league's finest. 'The N. C. State Wolfpack, ACC titleholders in three of the last four years, will sport a strong deC fensive unit. Jim D)onnan will re turn at quarterback for the squad. Also in the thick of the fight will be the Maryland Terrapins. Quarterback Al Pastrana, third in the ACC in bo0th total offense andl passing last year, underwent sur gery this spring but is exp)ected to be offensive leader for the Tlerra pmns. Head Coach Biill D)ooley has inherited a depth problem in his first year at UTNC, but will have a number of first-rate players returning, including end Charlie Carr who last year set an ACC record with 52 receptions. Virginia will be led by Frank Quayle, a junior runner who last season fin ished second in the lenae in rushingr. ressive 1alf Ken Walkup of Timmonsville. Also impressive in the Biddie attack were fullback Bob Miranda and halfback Steve DiCarlo. On the other side of the line, lefensive standouts included tackle Jim Poston (6-4, 240), tackle Rusty Ganas (6-5, 225), end Joe Wingard (no relation to the var sity's Tom), guard Frank Johnson, and halfback Tyler Hellams. Despite the presence of several top -prospects, the Biddie-' staff remains beset by several problems. Injuries have already slowed some players, and one, fullback Mike Stirling, is undergoing surgery for an old back injury and will not enroll until spring semester. The Biddies open their season Sept. 28 at 7:30 in a home game against Gordon Military Academy of Barnesville, Ga. TolI Icks' 1? C S jh .,.' s photo by Chief Photographer Chip Galloway r Staf i Games The U. S. team selections were madle in trials held at the Univer sity of Minnesota. Following a brief training period there, the Americans joinedl 1800 Western Hemisphere athletes in Winnipeg. Price estimates that 50% of these athletes will go on to the Mexico City Olympics. Price said his greatest thrills during the Games came "when the American flag was raised accomp)anied by 'Thie Star Span gled Banner' as an American received a gold medal." Ameri cans took 120 of a possible 178 gold medals. The male athletes were quar teredl in barracks at Ft. Osborne, a C a n a dIi a n Army camp. They b)unked eight to a room in true army' fashion. The women stayed three miles away in a school for the (leaf. The main problem in the ath letes' village was a lack of hot water. The hot water tanks in the b)arracks were not dlesigned to han dlIe the dlemandls p)laced upon them by the athletes. As a consequence the trainers had to fill their whirl pool baths at 6:3~0 a.m. in ordler to have sufficient hot water. By 10 a.m. there was no hot water in the village. Ice, rather a lack of it, was another problem. To counter this the American trainers be came good friends with the Food Service D)irector. Their ice supply was p)lentiful. Pan-Am and Olympic trainer candlidates are nominated by their fellow trainers in each of eight districts. The Olympic Medical Committee selects the trainers from the nominees. Price was nominatedl for the Pan- Am Games andl the upcoming Winte Olympics. 3 41 staff "Where's Th lit St4 lome By JAY BENDER Asst. Sports Editor A cyclone will hit Carolina Stadium Saturday. It belongs to Iowa State Univer sity, Carolina's first opponents in the Gamecocks' second year under Paul Dietzel. Kickoff time for the first meet ing between the Big Eight and ACC schools will be 7:30 p.m., with a crowd of more than 30,000 expected. The Gamecocks, switching from last year's Power-I to a simplified multiple-T offense, will face a depth problem accented by the loss of Benny Galloway to a knee in jury. "There's no question that we are in better shape and quicker than we were last year," Dietzel stated recently. "However, we will have to avoid further crippling in jury." RUNNING GAME For the past two seasons ISU has used the pass as a primar} offensive wea pon. This sea son they are returning to the running game. C y c 1 o n e Coach Clay Stapleton blames last year's poor rec ordl (2-6-2) on too much pass ing a nd t oo STAPIEFON little defense. Defense will be a key feature in this year's team, though. The ISU line is big and strong, averaging League Title Is Available This year's Gamecock football sqjuadl will be eligible for the At lantic Coast Conference title. By playing six conference mem1 hers, the Gamecocks meet the min imum requirement to b)e eligile for the title. Last year Carolina playedl only four conference foes. The two-year probation whiich was placed on the football and basketball programs at the UJni versity last January by the NCA A will not affect the conference eligi bility of the Gamecocks. It pre vents Carolina football or basket ball teams from participating in any p)ost-season attractions reg ulated by the NCAA and restricts USC from appearing on regionally televised games. JIM PRifwl .4. '4'4 photo by Chief Photographer Chip Galloway e Football?" Idium Debut 21.1 per man. The Cyclones will use a five-two with a monster man as their primary defensive formation. "There may not be a better five-man front in the Big Eight," S t a p l e t o n has said. O f f en - sively t h e Cy c l o n e running attack rests with senior t' Leslie Webster, j who has been I S U ' s leading rusher for the WEBSTER p a s t two sea sons. His career rushing total stands at 1,070 yards. SPEEDY BACKFIELD Taking over as field general for the Cyclones will be junior John Warder. He is a good rollou quarterback who runs the optior well. However, he lacks the pass ing ability of last year's quarter back Tim Van Gelder. The other halfback will be lol "Wild Mule" McPherson, a sopho more, who won his starting slot with his speed. At split end the Cyclones wil start sophomore Neal Waddington In last year's spring game he j.layed quarterback andI wingback on the winning team and is pe' haps one of the best athletes or the squad. T h e offenst will line up in "pro-set" utiliz. ing fIa n k eri andI a split end The ISU' kick ing w ilil prob ably be handle( h y' sophomort Vern Skripsky He booted 1: WADDINGTON extra p)oinlts i' the spring games kkigfor bothi teamis andl kicked one8-yardl field goal in a freshman contest. Isacking up Skripsky will bet Tom Ilusch who was second in the liig Eight in scoring last year. He~ is also a halfback, but is counted on primarily for punt ing andI point after touchdown kicking. lie holds the ISU field goal record of six mn a season. BIG MOMENTS ISU's poor 1966 record over shadows some o u ts tandi n g moments of football. Tlhe Cyclone lost to nationally ranked Nebraska by only six points, 12-6. Nebraska wonl the liig Eight title and lost to Alabama .'M-7 in the Sugar Bowl. Thbe Cycl ones tied Missouri 10-110 and Oklahoma State 14-1.. They' also dlroppedl a close one to A rizona, 27-2.. USC Coeach Paul l)ietzel believes it is better to openf at home against anyone than to open on the road. However, he would like' to have an opponent with which the players are more familiar. ISU Coach ('lay Stapleton is go ing to hand his coaching dluties over to someone else at the enO of this campaign. Teams like te give their coaches goodI seasons to go out on andI perhaps there is some basis to the feeling arount' Ames, Iowa, that this will be a year to remember for the Cy The G.n,eo.l SPO RT S STRAIGHT TALK From the ROUNDHOUSE By PAUL F. DIETZEL Director of Athletics With one exception, I have been very pleased with our practices to date. The one exception is that our fine senior left halfback, Benny Galloway, did not recover from the knee injury that he suffered this spring. Here is the way we will probably start the season: DEFENSE (* Denotes Letters) RE: I)on Buckner (5-10, 180 soph) or David Lucas (6-4, 185, Red Shirt soph.). Injuries here have eliminated the letterman who played here last year and academics elimi nated his replacement. RT: Don Somma** (5-11, 216, senior). This Middlesex, N. J., boy has become a fine, aggressive leader. Middle Guard: David "Mudcat" Grant* (5-10, 208, junior). Improved over last year. Rugged and very competitive young man from Clarkesville, Ga. LT: Joe Komoroski** (6-2, 222, senior, Linden, N. J.). Fine speed and very strong. Joe is much improved over last year and is a fine leader of the defense. LE: Gene Schwarting* (6-1, 195, junior, Bamberg). Played regular last year and with the year of experience is a much improved terminal. Strong Linebacker: Bob Cole** (6-3, 221, senior, Colum bia). Since a knee operation at the end of the past season, Bob has worked hard to ready himself for this year. One of the best leaders on the squad. Weak Linebacker: Tim Bice* (5.10, 180, junior, Dallas, Texas). Probably one of the top athletes on our squad. A great young man and a fiery competitor. Fine speed and an extremely aggressive leader on the field. ., Rover: Jim Mulvihill** (5-9, 193, senior, Atlanta, Ga.). Extremely hard-nosed individual 'who was switched to de fense to bolster the tackling corps. If injured knee does not respond, his spot will be filled by a sophomore, Candler Boyd (5-9, 174, Hinesville, Ga.). LH: Toy McCord* (5-8, 158, junior, Manning). An excel lent athlete, Toy played regular here last year and is one year's experience better. A rugged, sure tackler and an ex cellent runner who will handle punts and kick-offs. RH: Pat Watson (5-11, 152, soph, Myrtle Beach). Quar terback from last year's frosh team, a smart, alert athlete with quick speed and a sense for the ball. Safety: Wally Orrel* (5-10, 185, junior, Savannah, Ga.). One of the smartest safety men we have had. An amazing sense for the ball and sure hands. A vicious, sure tackler and a coach on the field. OFFENSE Split End: Fred Zeigler (5-10, 183, Red Shirt, Charleston). Up from the Scout Squad. Has deceptive speed and has great hands. Tight End: John Gregory* (5-11, 173, junior, Aiken). Last year's regular split end. Needed a tight end and John was elected. A good blocker and has fine hands. LT: Bob Mauro (6, 210, Red Shirt, Madison, N. J.). A regular baseballer and a fiery competitor. Quick and tough. L4G: Bob Morris (6, 187, soph, Virginia Beach, Va.). A fine wrestler and the quickest man on the line of scrimmage. A fine athlete although inexperien'edl. C: Jim Gobble** (6-2, 230. senior, Spartanburg). Jim is lighter than last year and much better condlitioned. Prob ably one of the best centers in the ACC. RG: Tom Wingard* (G-1, 208, junior, Greenwood). Was our best offensive lineman last year and should be again this year. Very quick and an aggressive competitor. RiT: Hlyrum Pierce* (6-2, 225, senior, Empire, Ga.). One of our fine offensive leaders. Strong andl qulick, Hylrum is a well-conditioned andl dependable performer and should be better than last year. RH: Butch Reeves* (5-11, 178, junior, Americus, Ga.). Moved from split endl to right half when Galloway was in jured. A good athlete, Butch has big shoes to fill. FB: WVarren Muir (5-10, 195, Red Shirt, Fitchburg, Mass.). A very promising addition to the Gamecock backfield. Good speed, power and explosiveness. Adds real punch to the attack. LH: Ben Garnto** (5-10, 195, senior, Columbus, Ga.). One )f the Gamecocks' most gifted performers. Very versatile. Best hands on the squad. Best runner on the squad. Fine blocker, good passer and great competitor. QB: Mike Fair** (6-1, 192, senior, Greenville). Mike should have his greatest year. lie is in the best shape of his life and has worked very hard on getting his arm ready. A fine runner, andl a great leader. We play at 7 :30 p.m. in the "Cockpit." We will be as ready as we know how to get ourselves. And we will be thinking of all of you. Pull for us ! Good luck to us all and God bless you !