Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'I felt it best We By JIM HERSH Sports Writer Carolina track coach John West resigned Monday and said he was leaving the coaching profession. "For some time now I have been considering the possibility of leaving actual on the field coaching," West said, "and I felt that it might be best to resign now and not wait until the end of the Winters J Ans Wednesday Student Specie Our Regular $1.85 Barbecue Pla1 $1 Old fashioned hickory Chopped Barbecue, H, steaming rice, Cole Slaw Beans and Roil 5 P.M. tl Clo AND 4 to resign nov% st resig season so a new coach could come in now and be recruiting and not be a year behind "I don't intend to be away from athletics for any length of time for this has been my whole life. I simply face a time in my life when I feel it best for my family and I to leave coaching." In his two years at USC West's teams reowrded a 10" outdoor dual A | r - Ires away el flavored ash over ,Bar- B-Q smng ) Blossom St. At the Bridge Ins as ti meet record, including last year's perfect 6-0 slate. "One of the saddest things of leaving is the relationship I have had with the athletes and students. Everyone has been very cooperative with everything we have tried to accomplish in the track program." West added that he felt he had "assembled a fine group of Gamecoc after big By BILL GRANT Sports Writer Carolina, coming off an im pressive road trip which saw them defeat two nationally ranked op ponents, returns home to tackle tiny Stetson University tonight at the Coliseum. Stetson, facing its first season in the NCAA's University Division is finding the going tougher than last year, when they made the Eastern Regionals of the College Division. The Hatters finished last seasons' campaign with a 19-9 mark. Head basketball coach Glenn Wilkes now finds his team in the The Russell House Cal ning, February 2. BecaL fifty per, but you won't mama m rack co athletes who are very intent on having a great season. I know they will do well. I will miss them." Paul Dietzel, USC Athletic Director, said that he accepted West's resignation "with much reluctance" and that Weems Baskin, who was the Gamecock track coach for 20 years before he retired from coaching two years ago to become administrative ks to tack 0 wms on r midst of a five game losing streak, and his record has tumbled to a 5 15 mark. Stetson's biggest win to date has been a 70-69 conquest of the Lehigh Engineers. One of the bright spots in an otherwise dismal season has been the play of 6-2, senior, guard Ron Beal, the playmaker and captain of the Stetson ballclub. As each game passes Beal moves closer to the all time Hatter scoring record, needing about 40 to break it against the Gamecocks. He has, however, been averaging 18.4 points a game and grabbing an unusual, for a guard, 6.2 rebounds a game. Wilkes in trying to neutralize eteria will be "Mama Leon so we'll be serving dinner I mind. It's a small price t< chunk of Italy. a. eat on campus ach assistant to Dietzel, had been named as the interim track coach until a permanent replacement could be found. "I am sorry that John is leaving us," the Athletic Director said. "I am very fond of him and his family and have admired the energet* way that he has gone about hW duties. We will certainly miss him, and we wish him well." :le Stetson oad trip the tremendous height advantage that Carolina possesses, will move Les Yother, 6-6, into the center position, for the night. Although Yother is the tallest player on the Stetson ballclub, he also is one of the most inexperienced, not seeing much action this season. Regular center Cliff White, 6-5, will be on hand to step in if Yother cannot handle the job. White averages 5.3 and 5.3 points and rebounds, respectively, per game. The responsibility of providing the rest of the firepower for the Stetson scoring attack, is shared (See ORR, PAGE 10, Column 1) e's" Wednesday eve tallan-style. A dollar 3 pay for such a big