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Staff Photo by Chief Photographer Chip callow1a The Irishman Instructs JacA of Spades By JOHN DAVID SPADE sCHOtARsHIP LEADERs Sports Editor Football is looking forward toward bowl games, a sure sign that basketball has arrived. Carolina will be sending a contingent to the annual affairs in Bob Mauro, USC's Most Valuable Player, Roy Don Reeves and Wally Orrel, two real studs on defense. But bowl games of the All-star type are more or less icing on the cake, recognition for fine individual efforts in a team sport. In a team sport. it's a team that you want to send to a bowl. Paul Dietzel reminded the Gamecocks who will return next year that Carolina will be off probation beginning in February, and eligible for a px)st-season bid. With the soph-studded team that USC fielded this fall, and juniors like Warren Muir, Rudy H1olloman, Lynn Hodge, Freddie Zeigler, Dave Lucas, Don Buckner, and others, the Gamecocks can't help but improve on this year's 4-6 mark. Indeed the future looks bright, especially considering the rest of the conference. State will be losing their big bulls as well as their stellar place kicker, Gerald Warren. Clemson will have to rely on Ray Yauger next year, and the loss of Gore, Cagle, and D)uckworth won't help. Wake is having internal problems and it will be an or ganization program next year. Freddie Summers won't be at the helm either and he made the team go, even if he wasn't a coach's delight. Virginia is losing their offensive machine, Quayle and Arnette, through graduation. UNC looked strong at times this year, hut Gayle Bomar was the prime mover and he gets a sheepskin in June also. Duke will have Leo Hart back again, and he's a dandy, but won't be able to carry the load himself. Maryland will be better but unless ('arolina has te meet the Terps in another quagmire next year, the Game cocks should prove the better team. Dietzel's building program is turning into a continuation program. As a result he'll be able to use redshirting more to his advantage. With the material he's got coming up' this was the last time the frosh had a chance to beat the Hohunks, they lost that chance, but learned a lot about the game. After the Bohunks beat this year's unbeaten crop of frosh, they lined up, shook hands with the underclassmen and1 said, "Now you're Gamecocks !" Dietzel has shown his prowess at the recruiting game. Lo)oking at this year's frosh, people like Tom Suggs, Al Usher, Rusty Ganas, Chris Banks, Eddie Holton, et al, or at least players of their quality will be coming up to chal lenge members of the varsity every year. What seems to be one of the best aspects of the Dietzel program is that most of his recruits stay in school. D)ietzel's first recruits, this year's sophs, number 27, not counting redshirts. There were only 11 seniors and a like number of juniors this year. If the head coach keeps it up, they'll have to either lengthen Carolina's bench or buy a lot more red shirts. And a winner doesn't hurt recruiting. I wonder how im pressed the prospects Clemson had on their bench were. * * * Congratulations to BOB MAUJRO and the rest of the Gamecocks who received awards last week. COACH DICK WELD)ON kept the audience in stitches, maybe he should be doing a TV show. The Tiny Tim Award of Courage this week goes to head trainer JIM PRICE~ for wanting to climb the catwalks in the Coliseum to cut out the lights after practice sessions. The Cassius Clay Humility A ward goes to a deserving~ FRANK HOWARD. Gamei In A( Terps Are By STEVE CRICK Staff Writer The Gamecocks will attempt t make some turtle soup in th coliseum Saturday night wheT they meet Maryland's improve< Terrapins. Coach Frank Fellows says, "I appears that we have picked ul in size and lost a little speed ir the exchange. Since one of ou biggest problems last year wa: lack of rebounding, we have to fee that this will help us." "We have good depth at guard, led by Pete Johnson and Tom Milroy and the same goes up front where Will Hetzel and Rod Horst return." In Carolina Coliseum's inaugura varsity game, the Gamecocks werc forced to stave off a last ditcl Auburn rally to defeat the South eastern Conference Tigers 51-49 Sophomore guard John Roch< sank an 18-foot jump shot witl two seconds left to give USC th< victory. Carolina led at half time 36 26, and increased its lead to 40-28 early in the second half before the offense went cold. Auburn pecked away at the lead and obtained a 46-46 tie on Wally Tinker's layup with four and a half minutes left to play. Tinker scored again a minute later, and Ronnie Jackson made a free throw to put Auburn in front 49-46. Carolina tied the scor< with a minute left when Bol Cremins made the first free throw of a two shot foul. Tom Owen tipped in the missed shot. USC regained possession with: 49 seconds left to play and helk for the last shot. Roche hit fror the top of the circle for the win, ning basket. Tom Owens took scoring honors with 16 points, with Roche scoring 15 and Cremins 11. Owens als< led in rebounds with 14. "We have a five man offense to go with the great enthusiasn1 of the team," Coach McGuire said. "We're going to have to have a lot of patience, but we'll be good." "Ribock has come a long way (he pulled down nine rebounds against Auburn) andi Charlit Vacca will be back for the Mary landl game." "This ball club can play mar: to man," McGuire continuedl, "anI I'm a man to man, nose to nose and body to body coach. The zon Carolina C During Pro BY JOHN DAVID SPADE Staff Writer At the beginning of basketbal p)ractice, Coach Frank McGuire in vited USC students to attend prae tice' sessions. "I've told the team before tha the crowd will tell them w h e t they're going good," said McGuire "Having the studlents a r o u n< really helps us in practice." ~SuperLI & Flag Fo4 cocks 'Improved' keeps fouls down and we can'l afford to lose Ribock or Owen inside." AUBURN FG FT T TINKER 3 2-2 8 ALEXANDER 2 2-2 PURRY 2 0-1 4 JACKSON 9 1-2 19 NIENGELT 5 2-6 12 WALKER 0 0-2 0 SHELTER 0 0-0 0 SIGUR 0 0-0 0 TOTALS 21 17-15 49 SOUTH CAROLINA CREMINS (# 21) 5 1-3 11 I OWENS (# 24) 7 2-4 16 RIIIOCK (V 41) 1 2-4 4 ROCHE (# 11) 6 2-4 14 WALSH (# 44) 2 1-1 5 SPENCER (# 25) 0 0-0 0 MARTIN (# 34) 0 1-1 1 TERRY (# 22) 0 0-0 0 TOTALS 21 9-17 51 HALFTIME SCORE: A- 26 23 -41 SC- 36 15 -51 TOTAL FOULS: A-12. SC-11 FOULED OUT: NONE ATTENDANCE: 12.088 TICKETS For last week's game againsi the Auburn Tigers, Carolina stu dents picked up 5,800 tickets last Tuesday. There were 600 tickets available for sale to the general public Saturday morning and they were sold 25 minutes after the tick et office opened. Carolina students are allotted 7,000 tickets for home games. kStanw As Sw Stanw'yck iliseum Clo ctice Until Hut that was when the Game cocks were practicing in the Naval Armory. -A different situation has arisen now that McGuire is holding prac tice sessions in Carolina Coliseum. Studentts will not be able to at itendl practice sessions in the new arenla. Teh cly Carolina Coliseum is not yet part of the University, i lowi Is Ti Staff Phot, by Chuck Kest }tb(1ll /A (M Inn To0 Te itch Ii Tom 0 yck Naj immers By ROLAND DUBAY Staff Writer The swimming Gamecocks open their season this year with two away games, the first meet being held today against East Carolina, at Greenville, N. C., the second to be held tomorrow against UNC at Chapel Hill. Covey Stanwyck, 5-11, 160 lb., from Washington, I). C., has been chosen as the first team captain of the swim season. The first home meet will be on Jan. 6 against North Carolina State at 4 p.m. Returning lettermen include Trond Williams, Fred Schneide r Mike Slenker, Paul Lewis, Co-j ington Stanwyck, Jim Weinzet sed To USC End Of Co: is a construction site. As such, the construction com pany is responsible for the build ing, and it is locked at 4 p.m. daily. Until the building is completed studlents will not be able to attend practices. "It's not that we don't want the studlents. I've n e v e r believed in closed practice sessions. We'd love to have the fans come in if it were Bowl ." This game will match the ~ league winners in the Inde pendlent and Fraternity divi sions in competition for the Intermnural Football Chain- a pionship. Zones 18 (M 6-7) and 21 (Married Students) and Phi -Kappa Sigma andl Phi Delta LTheta are semifinalists. Coach Di)ck Stein's Zone 18 p)ostedl a 26-0 win over Zone '6 14 to gain the semifinals. [The trem"ndlous t u m b I e w as due largely to the com who scoredl the w in n ing touchdown after the efforts of Rlea Fuchs led to an in. terception andl a f urt h er scoring of two touchdowns. O t h e r outstanding players *, were Fishy Fisher, Beardy B I a e k, Oral Esposito and Glassy Mirndo. 4t Teri 10 iColi wens Makes It LooA rned Ct "Pt, Open A tel, Mike Fox, George Fairly, I Vic Laughlin, John Thoder, Jack Moffel, Ken Carnes, and Dave < Hatton. d Coach Pete Combes, who took w%-er the Ganmocks after the r 967-68 season began and guided hem to an 8-3 record and saw n, hem finish third in the ACC, I el eels we have a stronger team al his year but as of yet does not o inticipate the outcome of the com etitions with our two toughest ompetitors, UNC and North .arolina State. "Probably the weakest p)osition rn the squadl," Combes saidl, "is he individual mnedley'." Hill Muller, k>st to gradua tion, holds the present school ItI record in the 200 yard individual s - - - - - - - - - - irl Students a ustruction : )Ossible. hi "As soon as we are able we will ( e't the students know when they (1 *an attend our sessions," said Mc- ( ~ure- st A Trophy Eniginieers' Joint Couanci righat, pres~ents the Presidenut o ,(:vil Engineers with the Engini 'Irogilby. The (:ivil Enugineers elhnination footl4sll tourney as ".eering groups. Thle trophy rivalry be*tweenf the engineers ,"f hwer given to the winners, a ''hae trop.hy, a wo4Mlen-alat heci -apins seum hot* by Chief Photographer Chip Gallowq SEasy iptain Season nedley with a time of 2:04.2. "The strongest position in the luad," Combes feels, "will be the ving competitions." Both ACC diving champions are turning to the Gamecocks. Senior Laughlin won the three eter competition in the confer ice meet last year as a junior, id sophomore Thoder won the ie meter title as a freshman. Other returning Gamecocks who placed high in the ACC in. 'lude senior Stanwyck and 'ophomore Williams, who placed tigh in the freestyle sprints as lid Slenker. Stanwyck, who placed high in ith distance freestyle e vents in e ACC championships last >ring, is expectedl to be strong the 1,000) and 500-yard events rain this season. Stanwyck, along with Muller, Nilliams, and other US(C Uwirn ners, posted fourteen new achool -ecords in the swimming events. Stanwyck captured four records mself: the 200-yard freestyle :48.5), the 500-yard freestyle ~:00.1 ), the 1 ,000..yardl freestyle t):51.7), andI the 1,650-ya rd free yle (17:59.9). staer Photo by ChsS Kef'' ro Enjoy President Alan JohnsoAi f the Amterican Society of 'era' Joint Council Atltie were winners in a do0ubke gainst other camipus cnAl represents the tradlitionl n football, and a real keg cts as an added incentive. ~ e, w2 ill be. kept in the