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Ak~ 70 Scott USC pole vaulter Jim Scott in recent State-Record Relay seek an undefeated season to Athens. Football Saturday The University will hold its sixth annual spring football clinic Saturday and at the same time wind lip the second week of spring practice. The Gamecock football squad is scheduled for three more weeks of off-seas%on workouts with the an Tommy Rhodes: Battling U& __for QB nual Garnet and Black spring game scheduled for Friday night, M1ay 21. This year's spring game will be played in the Columbia City high school stadium due to con struction in progress on the enlargement of Carolina Stadium and the pending installation of arlificial turf on the Carolina St adium field. Afternoon sessions will be held at the Rex fCnright Athletic Center practice tields and will feature a scrimmage by the Gamecock foot ball squad. The scrimmage is scheduled for 2 P.M.. New faces were prominent during the first t wo weeks of spring. practice. especially on the defensive team where three rising sophomores were making strong bids for starting .jobs. Trhese in cluded defensive ends Roger Troy, ,:' :'Mi f rom Atlanta, Georgia, -(hief Photographer Parker Renaud vaults prepares to spring over bar s. Scott and his teammates morrow against Georgia in clinic set a ternoon \lonty Matthews. f;-1. 195. from Portsmouth. Virginia. and middle 4iiard I)ana Carpenter. 5-10,210, Ilrom Elmira. New York. TIwo redshirt sophomores, center Jimmy Privette. 65-0, 213 from lIartsv'ille. and tackle D)ave .iiiniori C(ash. 6i-0, 245. from Tlrottman. North Carolina, were listed on the starting offensive tam. Rising sophomores figuring prominently in of fensive planning included tackle D)arrell Austin of li nion. guard Rick Anthony of Pickens and flanker Eddie Aliildrow ot Hishopville. Redshirt ophomores 'Ted McGill of Kingst ree at guard and Bob Morris r>t G;reenwood at tackle are listed rn the second of fensive unit. <Other rising sophomores on the 'econd det ensive team included linebacker Phil Wallace of Virginia Beach. Virginia, tackle Il)ale I )uncan of Kakerville. North ('arolina. and defensive hacks TIhad Rowe of West Columbia and Alex l>obson of Greer. .Iuniors Jackie Young and T'omm y Rhodes. both of C'hesapeake. Virginia, shared first team qluarterhack hilling in the (early going. Juniors Russ Kuritz and ('huck Mimms were waging a strong tight with seniors Hilly Itay Rice and Tomm.v Simmons for the running hack positios Carolir tangles By DAVID DRAFF Sports Writer ATHENS--The Carolina fresh from a stunning upset c sprint' medley relay team Rqlays, seek their first und meet record in history here t 1:30 meet against Georgia. The Gamecocks are 5-0 i competition. The USC sprint of Dick Harris, Jim Small, Gamecocks attendance sets mark Alter setting a new home at tendance record at Carolina ('oliseurn for the third straight year. Carolina's basketball Gamecocks will be aiming for the hall million mark in home at Iendance during the 1971-72 season, only their lourth year of play in the I'. lot seat facilitv. Coach Frank McGuire's Gamecocks drew a total of 137,760 Ians into the Coliseum in eleven games last year, almost seven thousand more than saw them play at home the previous year. They also established a new average attendance record during the season, playing before an average home crowd of 12,523. In three seasons the. University has entertained 388,758 fans in plush Carolina Coliseum and a normal attendance year should send then over the 500,000 sometime next winter. Individual game attendance is computed on t he I*'. I' seating capacity plus the nuimber of news media representatives, television crew members and other essential personnel admitted. A new one game attendance mark was also set when South (Carolina met eventual NIT winner North Carolina on Feb. 20. A total ot 1:'..17 jammed the Coliseum to see the Gamecocks subdue the Tar lieels. i:'-t;l, surpassing by one spectator the previous one game mark set against N.C. State in 1969 In the Gamecocks' eleven home games this past season, ten were total sellouts. Since Carolina ('oliseum was completed in time lor the t91;8-619 season, 24 of the 32 varsity games played there have dra wn a f ull house. l)'iring those three years of the tacilit 'suse. South Carolina home attendance has averaged 12,148 per game. Tlhe smallest crowd everI for a varsity game is 9,871 for ~ the l'rskine game in 19659, the only Iimeb less than I1,000) fans have at tended a home game here during that period. Not only do the Gamecock draw well at home, they play well there also. They had an undefeated 11-0 mark in the Coliseum last season ;andl. in three years. are 29-3 at home. Only losses to North 'arolina. Tennessee and 1)avidson blemish the record, while USC has wonJ its last t:3 home contests. track team with Georgia IN and Bob Kaczka set a new school record of 3:19:8 in winning the Penn event. track team, "People down here don't realize that a of Villanova's championship in the Penn Relays is so In the Penn important," second-year head coach John lefeated dual West said. "Expecially to beat a team like :imorrow in a Villanova on their home grounds." West is very anxious to get at the n dual meet Bulldogs. "We're really looking forward to Keith Edison this meet. We only beat them last year by one point so it should be a real good meet." The Gamecocks, however, beat a healthy Georgia team and the Bulldogs have been hard hit by injuries this year. Coach Speck Towns' squad has been hurt so bad by the injury bug that they had to forego the North Carolina Relays last week due to lack of enough bodies. Georgia is 1-2 in dual meet competition. The Bulldogs are led by Tony Williams and Joe Shearouse in the dashes, where they are strongest. . Williams runs the 100 and Ji 220 as well as jumping in the Small: long jump. School recoras are held Leading by co-captains Eddie Sprinter Baxter and John Wolf and freshman Phil Tucker. Tucker set the long jump record in the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships. Baxter runs the 880 while Wolf competes in the mile. "Georgia is real good in the sprints," West said. "They also have a 24-foot broad jumper and are real good in the shot put. I wish we were at home but I'm still looking forward to the meet." After the Georgia meet USC returns home to host a pair of relay events. First comes the State Intercollegiate Meet and then the ACC Championships. "We're putting lights in for the State meet and they should be ready," West said. "The ACC should be a great meet. Duke has a miler that is capable of breaking four minutes." The Gamecocks and Duke are the only ones that are given a chance to snap Maryland's 15 year dominance. Maryland has won the ACC title every year except 1955 when North Carolina claimed the crown. Also foremost in West's mind is qualifying for the NCAA nationals. "NCAA is strictjy individual and the individual must qualify,' he said. "'To qualify the athlete has to equal a certain time. Bob Kaczka has already qualified (Kaczka also ran in the nationals last year) and we have had a couple of guys just miss. ''Billy Novo has a 14.1 in the low hurdles and you need a 14.0 to qualify. Jim Schaper has a 4:07:0 in the mile, a second off the qualifying mark, and Larry Schmelia and Forrest Broom have also just missed." Shows 1:00 - 4:30 - 8PM Firs ColmbiaShoing:* "The...Corpse...Gr..nders".