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BY DON HULT
Football Analyst
As any defensive strategist well
knows a great quarterback, even if
supported by mediocre teammate,
can defeat a good defense.
In 1960 Norm Van Brocklin
guided the Philadelphia Eagles to
the NFL championship despite the
fact that teams like the Giants,
Browns and Packers had better
personnel overall.
The three-year-old Miami
Dolphins are tabbed as a team
with a great future, primarily
because of- the presence of the
talented Bob Griese at quar
terback.
During the 1968 season a few
college teams depended on their
quarterbacks to provide the
primary offensive spark: Greg
Cook at Cincinnati, Chuck Hixon at
SMU, Marty Domres at Columbia
and a 6'3 195 pound sophomore at
Duke named Leo Hart.
Many other teams besides USC
felt the sting of Hart before the end
of the 1968 season as he personally
generated 2340 yards pnd 14 touch
downs for the Blue Devils.
His total offense yardage broke
the ACC record and ranked him
sixth nationally, an unbelievable
feat for a football player who was a
relatively unknown high school
player.
Hart was given a scholarship at
Duke on the insistence of 'a Tom
Harp assistant, who saw a
diamond in the rough. Hart was a
starter in the Devils' '68 opener
because returning senior Al
Woodall was suspended.
Hart again returns to be the
essence of Duke 's explosive of
fense but he is hardly a one-man
show. Phil Asack, 220 pound
fullback-tailback. is a strong inside
rusher.
Wes Chesson is a fast rangy
receiver from his slot or wing
position. lie totaled almost 800
yards on pass receptions in 1968.
Tight end Jim Dear-th and wide
receiver Marcel Courtillet are two
more highly competent receivers.
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Carolina's defense will have to stop
Ifart and company from scoring
too often (no more than twice), and
will also have to prevent Duke
from playing "ball control" eating
up yardage in short, steady chunks
over a long period of time while the
Cocks' own explosive offense
languishes on the sideline.
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Defensive halfback Pat Watson
and fullback Warren Muir, two
seasoned veterans who have been
starters for two seasons, will serve
as South Carolina's game captains
for Saturday night's opening of
collegiate football's centennial
season at Carolina Stadium.
The South Carolina -coaching
staff selects two seniors--one from
the offense and one from the
defense--to serve as game captains
for each Gamecock football game.
At the end of the season the squad
elects one or two of the seniors to
go into the record book as per
manent captain or captains.
Watson, the smallest Gamecock
regular at 151 pounds, has started
every game at defensive right
halfback since he joined the South
Carolina varsity at the beginning
of the 1967 season. Muir has been a
starter for the same period except
when he missed several games last
season due to injuries.
Nicknamed "The Rat" by
teammates, Watson is a cocky
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To defeat a good passing team
such as Duke will require great
coordination from the three units
of the Carolina defense, the line
linebackers and deep secondary.
On the line it will be the
responsibility of the defensive ends
(David Lucas, No. 84 and Lyn
Hodge, No. 89) to put pressure on
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little scrapper from Myrtle Beach
who makes up in hustle and desire
what he lacks in size. He set an
Atlantic Coast Conference record
last year by intercepting four
passes in one game and led the
ACC in interceptions for the season
with seven.
Watson served as president of
the Junior class last year and was
unopposed in last spring's campus
elections for president of the senior
class for the 1969-70 academic
year.
Carolina p1
on ACC ac
Eight USC athletes were named
to the Atlantic Coast Conference
Honor Roll for 1969.
They were basketball players
John Roche, Hank Martin and Tom
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trying to locate his downfield
receivers.
This will be a tremendous
challenge as Hart himself is quick
and elusive, and since Duke uses
the 1-formation as their basic of
fensive with wing, set slot and
power variations, Hart will always
have one or two backs blocking in
front as he tries to roll out and
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Muir, 5-10, 195. from Fitchburg,
Mass., already ranks as the
Gamecocks' fifth best career
rusher with 1,265 yards with one
season of eligibility remaining.
Called "the best inside runner in
the United States" by head coach
Paul Dietzel, Muir rushed 805
yards as a sophomore and, despite
injuries, 460 as a junior.
Muir, a civil engineering major,
is married with two small sons.
Watson is majoring in physical
education.
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aemic list
Owens, swimmers Mike Fox and
George Fairey, football player
Tony Fusaro, tennis player Stuart
Reynolds and baseball player Don
Stanley.
South Carolina had the lowest
number of athletes on the honor
roll of any school in the conference.
The University of North Carolina
led the way with 58 members,
followed by Duke with 53 and
Virginia with 52.
Then came Clemson with 21,
N.C. State with 14, Wake Forest
with 14 and Maryland with 10.
Stuart Reynolds was among the
three athletes who made 4.0 for the
year. The others were Virginia
trackman James Creekman and
Wake Forest's David Booth, also a
thinclad.
To be eligible for the honor roll
an athlete had to complete a full
season in a recognized varsity
sport and earn a 3.0 cumulative for
the year.
Other prominent athletes on the
honor roll were Charlie Scott,
U NC's All-America cage star arnd
Duke basketballer Dick DeVenzio
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tain."
Lucas and Hodge could hold the
key to a Gamecock win since the
defensive ends in the Cocks' "50"
defense (which they'll use 70 per
cent of the time) will always be
"going" (charging into the back
field).
Both USC ends are tall, quick
and experienced, and if they can
"ge' up into Hart's face," it will
disrupt his timing.
It will be the defensive tackles'
responsibility to "read" the
movements of Duke's offensive
linemen. If Rusty Ganas (no. 71)
and Jim Poston ( no. 75) read
"run", they will have to fend off
the blockers and hold the running
backs to a minimum gain,
especially in the all-important
"off-tackle hole" (gap between the
offensive tackle and offensive
end).
If the defensive tackles read
"pass." they will first have to
check for the draw play to fullback
Asack (Duke no. 35) and then rush
Hart from the inside.
Both Carolina tackles. despite
their pro size, are agile, especially
Ganas, who made several big
plays (throw offensive backs for
big losses) last year.
Once again, as in year's past,
Don Buckner ( no. 62) came to the
fore in time of crisis. The player
slated to play middle guard, 6'4 235
pound Kevin Mooney, could not
make up his academic deficiencies
in summer school; so "Buck" was
shifted from offensive guard to
middle guard on defense.
He has become the Cocks'
version of Rod Kanehl as in his
first two varsity seasons he has
played end, rover, linebacker and
now middle guard on defense and
also guard and fullback on offense.
He played fullback in the
Clemson game and did a masterful
job of chopping down Clemson's
defensive ends. "Buck" is a team
player who lends class to whatever
position he plays.
His responsibility against Duke
will be clogging up the center
against line smashes by Asack and
working sometimes in pass
defense with the linebackers.
In the Cocks' defense, strong
linebacker Ben Padgett ( no. 53)
will be calling the signals,
sometimes on clue from the bench.
His position is denoted "strong"
because he will usually be lined up
across from the strong side of the
Duke offensive set (strong side is
where the Duke tight end will be
positioned. Dearth no. 28).
The weak linebacker, Al Usher
(no. 33). will be positioned to the
split end side (Duke split end
Courtillet, no. 86). Both
linebackers should be pursuing the
ball and making many tackles
against the run, and covering the
short "hook zones" against the
pass, although Usher will have
more area to cover as he will be
playing on the split or open side.
Fans will do well to watch
number 33 in Garnet, specifically'
every so often as Usher is one of
the top linebackers in the ACC.
The deep secondary, naturally,
is mainly interested in defending
against the long pass first, as this
is the play which can be most
destructive.
The four secondary defenders
will use a variety of coverages to
defend against Hart's passing:
man-to-man four-deep, zone three
deep with rover, a combination
man-zone, pre-set rotation, usually
to wide side, and invert (men
usually playing deep play shallow
and vice versa).
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