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Undero matter Reprinted from "Rugby at Duke" To the first-time spectator Rugby can be a confusing game, resembling a hybrid between American football, soccer, basketball, and king-of-the mountain. First of all the basics: there are 15 men to a team-eight forwards and seven backs, all trying to score a touchdown, known as a "try!" Any man may kick, run, or pass the ball. The ball may be kicked and run forward but may only be passed backward. No blocking is allowed; so a runner is left entirely to his own devices, which often means lateralling to another runner just before being tackled. Unlike American football, play is Chavous, Defensive back Andy Chavous of Hepzibah, Ga., and fullback Warren Muir of Fitchburg, Mass, will serve as South Carolina's game captains Saturday afternoon when the football Gamecocks meet the Georgia Bulldogs in Sanford Stadium in Athens. Chavous is a versatile 6-2, 183 pound performer who has filled in at several positions for the Gamecocks, performing as a halfback, split end, defensive halfback and safety during his USC playing career. Born in Augusta, Ga., he attended Butler High there and lettered for the Gamecocks in 1967. League open to everyone Anyone interested in bowling in the Intra-Carolina League should go to Star Lanes Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. This league is open to all men and women of Carolina and from it will be selected both a men and women's bowling team to represent the University in in tercollegiate competition. For more information contact the Intramural Department at 777 8126. 1E s4 OFFM AND ON PI THE LOCATED A SUPPOR SUBMARINES tanding of mas continuous-that is, when the ball carrier is tackled he must release the ball immediately, to be picked up by whichever team can out scramble the other. The line-out, which resembles a basketball jumpball, is used to get the ball into play after it has been kicked or run out of bounds. - The "scrum" is the mass of players huddled together either in a set position or around a loose ball. The scrum-half rolls the ball in at their feet, and the opposing scrums shove each other back and forth across the turf until one side manages to "heel" the ball back to their side. There are three basic ways to score in Rugby. A "try", analogous to a touchdown in football, is worth three points and Muir to Muir, 5-10, 195, is serving as a game captain for the second time this season. He already ranks as the Gamecocks' fourth best career rusher with 1,386 yards and was recently elected by Gamecock fans and alumni as fullback on the all time South Carolina football team. Called "the best inside runner in the United States" by head coach Hamrick bra FUI1 CHARLESTON R ECR L-A ngineer, Oct< YOUR PLACEMENT ER FOR AN APPOINTMENT AN INFORMATIVE BROCHUR LOFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIE: AVAILABLE WITH CHARLESTON NAVAL SHIPYARD AT CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROL T FACILITY FOR NUCLEAR POWEF AND OTHER MODERN NAVAL VI snortmate Emainwar rugby: ter-ing is scored by touching the ball to the ground in the opponents' end zone. The second way to score is the conversion after a try. This is worth two points. It involves a place kick from a point directly opposite the spot where the try was scored (touched down). The third methodof scoring is the field goal, which is worth three points. The field goal, like the conversion, involves a place kick, and is taken from the spot of a major penalty. It is also possible to score a field goal by means of a running drop-kick at any time during play. Perhaps the most confusing aspect of Rugby for the spectator, and indeed for the neophyte player, is the matter of penalties. To simplify, penalties can be lead way Paul Dietzel, Muir rushed for 805 yards as a sophomore and 460 yards as a junior. During 1968, he was hampered by injuries, the first of which was sustained against the Bulldogs in last season's clash. Muir, a civil engineering major, is married with two small sons. Also married and with one child, Chavous is a pharmacy major. es for contact NAVAL SHIPY4 UIT MENT Flynn g Studei >ber 7, 19 ALL OPTIONS .INA ~ED ESSELS merely mules divided Into either major or minor violations. Minor violations include the "knock-on" when the ball is not caught cleanly or when it is passed forward. The result is that a set serum is called at the point of infraction and the ball Is put into play by the nonoffending side. Incidently, serums are also called when play has become hopelessly piled up on the field. More serious offenses such as failing to release the ball when tackled, hands in the serum, and off-sides, result in a penalty kick for the nonoffending side. "Hands in the serum" refers to the rule against using anything but one's feet to move the ball when it is in the midst of the serum. Finally, off-sides refers to one's position in relation to the ball. The off-sides line is the imaginary line across the field wherever the ball is in play. For instance if the forward who catches the ball in the line-out chooses to hold it instead of passing to the backs, any member of the opposing team who breaks past the player with the ball is off sides. Intramural activities The Married Students clinched a convincing win by routing the Horseshoe contingent, 45-6. Webb led the winners with 14 points on two touchdowns and two extra points. Bray scored one TD and one PAT for the Married Students while Tilton, Farkas and Mehrle each got one touchdown. Bubba Williams uncorked six TD passes and three extra point passes for the MS cause. Baker shut out Burney, 25-0; Douglas eeked out a 7-6 victory over Preston; and Maxcy took an 18-12 decision over Bates House No. 2. Hardy scored three touchdowns and Jacoby added seven points to give Moore a shutout over Bates House No. 1, 25-0. LaBorde relied upon Sherlock's three TDs and two by Appel to defeat the Town Men, 30-6. its --Chief photographer Chuck Keefer Harris picks one off Dick Harris runs back one of the three interceptions that the Gamecocks got in their battle with the Tar Heels last weekend. Such antics would be most helpful against Georgia this Saturday in Athens. ook to arl BRASS, also BLACK BLACK & WHITE; also BROWN Striped Ban-Lons By PURITAN a k Deep tone French Cuff Shirts by CREIGHTON 1321 Main St. - - - -(Next to the Rims Go..Go ... 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