Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Game, State By STEVE CRICK Staff Writer A bit of history will be made Saturday when N. C. State steps onto the floor of the Carolina Field House. Never again will another conference g a m e be played in the little building on Sumter Street. No more will USC students and Gamecock fans be compressed within its sound-reflecting walls. Visiting teams will no longer be subjected to the strictly home favoring crowds. Soon tickets will actully be sold to their supporters, After Saturday the students of Carolina and Gamecock faithful who have filed into the Field House for these many years can - Vook forward to the very near future when they may enter a gleaming, new building on As sembly Street. Coach Frank McGuire, who is "proud of the Field House," explained that he felt the Field House is not strictly a physical advantage-"It's a a p i r i t u a I one." "The advantAges of playing at home in the Field House are really no greater than the ones which Duke and North Carolina enjoy on their home floors," Mc Guire continued. "The wonderful and tremendous enthusiasm of the Carolina stu (ents-there lies the real home advantage." "I have become very proud of our Field House," he said. "Our facilities. here are not bad. We have cleaned it up and repainted The absolute deadline for all sports copy is 7 p.m. Tuesday. Any announcements should be in the sports office by 7 p.m. Monday. Carolina C For Olymp By SUSAN TANNER Staff Writer A busy summer including the Olympic trials in July and possi bly the summer Olympics faces a rather unsual Carolina freshman coed. Debbie Tomberg, a freshman (diver at Carolina, plans to enter the Junior Nationals in two wveeks in Virginia, the Women's Na tionals in Pittsburgh this April, the Women's Nationals in Ne braska this summer and the 40Olympic Trials this July in Long Beach, California. A diver for five years, Debbie competes in the one meter, three meter and tower events and In last year's AAU national competition placed second In the one meter and fifth in the three meter, and finished with a sev enteenth in the nationals. As for diving coach John Can dler, Debbie says, "No words can describe the kind of coach John is. He is realy great, really * - Coliseu jcks Game most of it and turned It into i place to play basketball." McGuire noted that the cheer ing and the attitude of the fans had improved since he first be gan coaching here. "Our fans have become goo< and I'm proud of them. The onl! thing which I wish they would no do is to boo the opposing team. Looking back over the gamei in which he has directed thi Gamecocks at home, McGuire cite< his three favorite home victories The two wins over Duke and a victory over UNC are the ones which I liked the most," he recalled. "And the ones over Duke gave me the greatest amount of satisfaction." Envisioning the upcoming da! when the Gamecocks move to th< Coliseum, Coach McGuire re marked, "I knew we'd build tho place. By getting good player and a winning team, the presen, facilities would be inadequate am the need to expand would thet present itself." "Our financial situation wil change and basketball will begih to make money for the Univer sity." Carolina's 4 p.m. encounter with N. C. State Saturday will mark the second time the two teams have met this season. USC lost to the Wolfpack twq Fridays ago 72-59, the biggest de feat margin of this season. State, which is now tied witl USC for third place, is 13-8 over all. The key to State's success i Eddie Biedenbach, who was in jured last season and unable t, play. The Wolfpack saw a big lea dwindle to a six-point loss Satur day when they were upset 72-61 by lowly Wake Forest. Biedenbac1 fouled out early in the secon half. oed Strives ic Position funny and I like him because he' short like me. How does the life of a femal, (liver preparing for a try at th, Olympics compare with the aver age all-American "non-athletic girl ? An expert on the subject, Deb bie says, "Although there ar< many adlvantages to be gaine< from diving, it hurts to have t< give up the parties and outsid4 activities in order to meet a train ing schedule. "However, the benefits to be gained-the learning of sports manship and how to try on your own ultimately outweigh these. "One of the most importan things, she adds, "is to learn tha when you are not doing well, no to give up until all the scorei are in and all the (livers are fin ished." When asked how long she plani to continue diving, Debbie im pishly answers, "Til I get mar ried." mn Stands Dwarf Il Drop I Satur 4 Duke-j Anything Starts Fij By JAY BENDER Asst. Sports Editor Thursday starts a run for the 1968 basketball glory in the At lantic Coast Conference (ACC). All the court action that has - taken place since December won't mean a thing when the eight ACC teams gather in the Charlotte I Coliseum next week. North Carolina won the regular season play in the ACC and they are strongly favored to take the tournament. CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT BRACKETS Thursday. March 7 Friday. March 0 Saturday. March 9 No 77 pm. No. 4 No. 5 3N:30 p. No. 6 A No.7 390 P.M. No. 23 However, five out of 14 times the ACC title has gone to a team that did not lead at the end of regular season play. Three times out of the five the title was grabbed by the fourth place team. USC Coach Frank McGuire said, "We have everything to gain and nothing to lose in the tourna ment." USC is not eligible to go to a post-season tournament be cause of their NCAA probation, b lut McGuire says this will not af fect their play. The ACC winner will advance to the NCAA Eastern Regional Tournament scheduled for March 15 and 16 in Raleigh. The number two team will probably receive a 7orkestaff Pht. by coates Crewo DUke day C Beat Shower Celebi Goes W -st Char1c bid for the National Invitational Tournament in New York's new Madison Square Garden. Weekend action will decide the final draw for the tourna ment in most cases. The tie be tween Wake Forest and Clem son will be decided by the flip of a coin Sunday. Comparing team strengths is almost as futile at tournament 'ime as it is at the beginning of :he season. To add perspective for the casual fan The Gamecock presents these tournament predic tions furnished by the guy who Globetrotters Meet Generals In Field House The original Harlem Globetrot ters, the world's most famed col lection of basketball trick artists, jokesters, and entertainers, will perform against the Washington Generals at the University Field House on Wednesday, at 8:30 p.m. The Globetrotters, brainchild of the late A be Saperstein, have per formed for the past 42 years. The amazing magicians of the court have played to audiences in 87 countries on six continents. The antics of Meadowlark Lemon, Freddie Neal and company never fail to captivate overflow audi ences. '68 Bid By DON HULT Staff Writer Most impressing to football year was the size of the first freshmen Biddie football players by Paul Dietzel and his energeti< The defensive line of Joe Wii Kevin Mooney at end and Jim F Rusty Ganas at tackle dominated offensive lines and shut off the ground game. On offense guards Kevin Ma Joe Chandler and tackles Red L Hipkins and Dan Dyches opent holes for the quick Biddie bacd While the '68 Biddle linemen as monstrous, their high schoo indicate great potential for Gamecock teams. Six foot, four Inch end, Greg B1 to continue the tradition of has berg High contribute many sta to Carolina football teams. Gr Shrine Bowler and '67 Class B L the Year in South Carolina. According to '67 Biddie end, his ex-teammate at Rock Hi Brown, is probably "the meanest end" he's faced. Pope again will ing heads with the 6-3 Brown Biddies and the Gamecocks scrirr fall. Another tall end Is Shrine BI tion Billy Freeman from Clinto 56-50 loses I Staff Photo by Elliott Borsnstelm ration Ten ACC tte Run 7 said speed will beat Duke in Durham. North Carolina: The team to beat. McGuire said, "North Carolina is in a class by them selves. No school I know of has two All-Americans." The two, of course, are Charlie Scott and Larry Miller. They will go to the NCAA after defeating Clem son, North Carolina State and Duke. Duke: A good, well-balanced club with a super star center. Mike Lewis is the key, but Joe Kennedy and Dave Golden back up the big man. The Blue Devils will beat Wake Forest and USC for a trip to the N.I.T. North Carolina State: Twice in tournament play NCS has come from the pack to win, but this isn't to be one of those years. Joe Serdich and Eddie Biedenbach lead the Wolfpack, but they don't have enough 'help to match past NCS teams. NCS will lose to UNC in the quarter-final round after beating Maryland in their first game. Maryland: Thi.: btich had to go with many sophomores and they couldn't lick the sophomore jinx. NCS will take the Terps in round one. South Carolina: The Game cocks had an exciting year capped by two victories over Duke. Unfortunately it is hard to win in tournaments without a big man. It is also hard to beat anybody three times in one Though A die Linm state end prospects Elkin, N. C. and Tim ville, N. C. fans last Tackle was a '67 group of offensively and dei recruited Biddies won't have staff. Hlipkins lieft but tale agard and Camden High fielde oston and1 top teams in '67 mai opposing forts of Bill Boyte, 4 offensive For his performances play on the Shrine] dione and voted South Carolina' ong, Dick man of the Year." d gaping Despite his great si Carr was agile enouj are not end at Irmo High a records Yellow Jackets' top b futureever, Gamecock coach4 future tabbed at tackle in th< The biggest '68 Bi ack hopes be 6-5, 240-pound ta< ing Barn- Aiken. Tope wasi *r players South Carolina Sandi eg was a victory. ineman of Another Shrine B4 from the North Cars Jim Pope, was 6-3, 235-lb. Ter I1, Rickie ston-Salem. defensive To complement ti be knock- corps the '68 Biddiesa when the competent personnel mage this on offense and at lin4 The '67 Biddies g< owl selec- their one Florida ir t. Out-of- Jim Johnson f,-om Ja, InDu ~ied I By JIMMY WANNAMAKER Sports Editor DURHAM - With five scrap ping and clicking ballplayers and a game plan featuring slow-down ball, Coach Frank McGuire led the Gamecocks through Duke Uni versity's Indoor Stadium version of Death Valley. The plan was simple-play the first half "close to the vest" and then in the second half open up and run. The game started off slowly enough with Duke starting the scoring after three minutes on a bucket by Mike Lewis. It was only five minutes later that kary Gregor put Carolina on the score board with a jump shot from the right corner. The Duke students started counting passes as the Carolina squad conducted a passing drill on the court. Bobby Cregiins got to laughing with them but kept drilling the ball until Skip Harlicka scored Carolina's sec ond goal after the 51 passes. With Duke ahead by seven points McGuire shifted the team to a man-to-man defense and told Tourney "'hursday season. USC meets Duke for the third time this season in the quarter-finals. Watch every body on this team as they are a well tuned machine on the court. Virginia: Mike Katos is the best of the Cavaliers, but he isn't enough. Virginia will lose to USC in the opening round. Wake Forest: The Deacons will win the coin toss with Clemson, but that's all they'll win this trip. The Deacons will meet their match in the Blue Devils. Clemson: One Mahaffey and a sophomore sharpshooter are all that the Tigers have this year. They will lose to UNC in the first round after losing the toss of the coin to Wake Forest for spot number seven. Fans Greet rot As Big rHas P aeDean Hall of recruiters Russell of Thomas- State to 4 guardl fro Biddie strong-point, Anoth< ensively. The '68 man was the Poeton-Ganas- a guari nt will still abound. Holstad d one of the state's newspap) nly through the ef- Anothe: -1 210-pound tackle. Steve Lip Boyte was chosen to house tea Bowl team and was another f Class AAA "Line- pect for pound Th r.e, 6-5, 225-lbs., Ray Althoug h to play offensive to throw nd is currently the at Ridgel asketball star. How- of college ~s already have Carr Other '68 Biddie lineup, are lineb~ die will undoubtedly Georgia, kle Jeff Tope from Marshall, nstrumental in the Myrtle B, appers' Shrine Bowl lanta, tac Mack Sto: wl tackle star, but Wright o lina Tar Heels' side Howei ry Key from Win- practices die Coat eler talented tackle a numb vill have some highly switched at guard and center high sel abacker on defense. Chance: >t steady play from group of iport, middle guard lina Bidd kaonville. so C'arolina sta.din. irham; ulouse them to open up offensively after the next Duke basket. The changes worked as Gary Gregor, Frank Standard, Jack Thompson, and Skip Harlicka tal lied to put Carolina ahead 44-39 while the man-to-man defense held Duke scoreless for almost eight minutes. Coach McGuire was excited after the game, but his voice was barely able to carry over the noisy victory celebration in the adjoin ing Carolina locker room. "I'm a firm believer in run ning," he explained, "but not at Duke. I've never seen a team come in and run with Duke and win." The Blue Devils took their first home loss in over a year and their fifth against 77 home wins since 1961. "Even if we had had Grosso I might have held the ball," he added. Jubilant team members had a lot to say about the game. Skip Harlicka laughed about some of the long shots he took and made, saying that they were so long that they took a long time to reach the basket. lie claimed that the win was his biggest on the team "up to here" and "if we play good, we can beat any team any time anywhere." He scored 13 points despite a -prained finger on his shooting hand. Ilarlicka's 13 points gave him a career total of 1,104 points, tying him with the seventh greatest Carolina career scorer, Itay Pericola. "We had to do it, but I felt sorry for them," added Bobby Cremins. "Coach McGuire is the greatest. there never has been another like him." "Duke's a great team," he in jected. "I'm looking forward to playing them again." "I was at first worried about Lewis," admitted Gary Gregor. But the 6-7 senior held the Duke star to 19 points and 10 rebounds. Trainer Jim Price had just drained an infected blister on the bottom of Jack Thompson's foot . when he admiringly re marked, "He did it all on guts." C o a c h McGuire said that Thompson's leg looked better be fore the game. The playmaker (Continued on Page 8) Photo by Kern Love The Victors otentia1 went hack down to the Sunshine nroll Mike Gee, a 6-2, 220-pound m Tampa. 'r outstanding Shrine Bowl line 5-10, 205-pound Steve Holstad, I-linebacker from Orangeburg. especially impressed scouts and armen with his blocking ability. Shrine Bowler was 190-pound scomb who played on the power m at Gaffney 1-igh along with ormer Shrine Bowler and pros interior line position, 6-5, 205 omas Morton. h rather lankey, Morton learned his weight around while playing and High andl attracted a swarm scouts. romising interior line prospects acker Greg Crabbe of Dublin, linebacker John Fisher of N. C., guard Phil Hudson of 'ach, guard Gary Latham of At kle Rick Moye of Cayee, center ne of Greenwood and tackle Jacob f Hampton. er, chances are that after a few under the watchful eye of Bid h Pride Ratterree and his staff, er of these prospects will be from positions they played in oo", s are also that this outstanding '68 recruits will give the Caro ies their second consecutive out an.