Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Footba practic Spring football practice gets underway at Carolina Saturday with 94 candidates getting equal duty on offense and defense for a week before -a 10 day break for spring vacation. During the vacation break, Coach Paul Dietzel and his staff will evaluate each player's two way performance and decide which players should concentrate on defense and which should play offense. There are 32 returning lettermen among the 94 can: didates. "Our practices will be divided into two 50 minute gessions Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday," Dietzel said. "Everyone on the squad will get an equal amount of offensive and defensive work. This includes the veterans who may have played all offense or all defense in the past." Dietzel added "we feel we have a lot of wide open positions and we want to be sure to get a good look at everyone both ways." South Carolina graduated an all senior secondary of four three year starters - three of which were professional football draftees -- and Dietzel acknowledged that "one of our biggest jobs will be to come up with a brand new defensive perimeter." Losses in this area included All America Dick Harris and Jimmy Nash at the corners, Tyler Hellams TALL TEXAN FRID Congratulations! . . . the Biggest Soda In I With You, Have A T. Us and Save 20c RE TEXAN With This TALLY MORE DAVIS4 1527 Main We lo showir ca|| us at lteam e Satu at rover, and Bo Davies at safety. Harris was drafted by the New York Jets, Davies by the New Orleans Saints, and Hellams by the Kansas City Chiefs. "We also have to find some -unning backs and become more efficient at quarterback," Dietzel added. A rash of injuries decimated the running back corps last fall and Tommy Simmons and Billy Ray Rice will graduate from that group. Glenn Morris, last fall's starting . quarterback, returns but he was plagued by inconsistency during 1971. "We also need to improve our offensive line," Dietzel added. "The strongest department we have returning is our defensive forcing unit." The forcing unit includes the defensive line and linebackers where All-America candidate John LeHeup at right tackle and Rick Brown at linebacker are the top stars. Bill Troup, a 6-5, 210 pound transfer from Virginia, letterman Robbie Davis and rising sophomores Dobby Grossman and Andy LeHeup will compete with Morris at quarterback. Rising sophomore running backs include Tom Zipperly, who led the freshman team in rushing and scoring; Bill Cregar, Jay Hodgir and Tom Amrein. Chuck Mimm. and Russ Kuritz are the two mosl experienced running backs returning but both were sidelined by injuries last year. AEMBERSHIP CARD AY -WEDESDAY -FRIDAY We invite you to try own Bring This Ad ALL TEXAN With GULAR 59c TALL isTAURANT Street ig your love ~54-8105 som begins rday Jackie Brown and Mike Haggard are two accomplished wide receivers although Haggard. missed most of 1971 with a knee injury. Mike Farrell, a transfer, was the top receiver on Army's Plebe team two years ago. Jim Mitchell, South Carolina's number two all-time receiver, is graduating. The kicking game should be in good shape with placekicker Tommy Bell and punter Robby Reynolds returning. Neville Files and Carroll Jones - both rising seniors -- and juniors Lee Andrews, Lyn Rushing and Thad Rowe all earned letters as reserves in the secondary last year, so the perimeter is not completely devoid of experience despite the graduations. Jim Beard, Monty Matthews, Bob Roe and Roger Toy are let termen defensive ends although Toy may be used at tackle in 1972. Otherwise, LeHeup is the only letterman defensive tackle returning although there are some good prospects among the red shirts and rising sophomores. Rick Brown and Chan Beasley are senior lettermen linebackers; Phil Wallace lettered there as a sophomore last fall; and Dana Carpenter lettered at middle guard. Marty Woolbright is a letterman with a bright future at tight end with Jackie Brown at split end and Haggard at flanker. Several promising sophomores should fit in at these positions. Among the offensive interior linemen, Jimmy Privette and Steve Wade are lettermen at center; Darrell Austin, Bob Morris and Dave Cash at tackle; Rick Anthony and John Dubac at guard. Following the spring holiday, the Gamecocks will practice Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday each week until April 29, when "Cockfight '72", the annual intra squad game, will be played in Carolina Stadium. Cockfight '72 will be part of a spring sports day at the University with the golf team playing Georgia, the track team running against Georgia, and the baseball team playing Georgia Southern in addition to the in trasquad football game. MOE Li Blue Denim I regular oi NEW SHI Levi Denim & ( corner,.of.Lady I Tape-bre Jim Schaper, who will run i tomorrow, breaks the tape at which he won in Tuesday's pr, Intramura vie for to1 By BILL GRANT A Sports Writer The Carolina Intramural A asketball program moved into the A inal stages of the season, as the P) layoffs to determine a Campus P Champion have begun. In the Independent Division ir 5emi-finals, Town Men faced b Naxcy, for the fourth time this w season. Maxcy prevailed in this h :ontest, 51-46. As the score in dicates, the game was close all the A way and was won for Maxcy on a four basket spurt late in the second period. Rabbit Elliot paced the winners with 17 points, followed closely by Tom Kemp with 13. p Maxcy advanced to the semi finals by defeating defending campus champs Preston, 49-39. a Down by two at the half, Maxcy again rode the scoring of Elliot, Kemp and Garry Seebrook to the a victory. Bill Galarbi was top scorer for Preston with 17. Town Men downed Bates, 47-39, to earn the right to meet Maxcy.b Town Men was paced by Paul Belmont with 13, while Maxcy a g lell Bottoms low cut at Ce PMENT: orduroy Bells JI Assembly St.. 14 ke -m Price in three USC relay teams the end of the mile run, actice. Ll cagers > spot len led the losers with 17 tallies. In the Fraternal Division the -mi-final match between Kappa 1pha Psi and Kappa Alpha was laypd under protest and post med until early next week. Kappa Alpha Psi gained entry ito the semi-finals as it turned 3ck Sigma Nu, 66-48. The game as evenly matched in the first alf, as evidenced by the halftime :ore of 40-31. However, Kappa lpha Psi erupted in the second eriod and won easily. John ardner paced Kappa Alpha Psi ith 26 tallies, 22 in the initial eriod. Steve Paris finished with I. Sigma Nu was led by Steve aris and Gordy Cherry with 19 rid 15 points, respectively. Kappa Alpha destroyed Chi Psi, 1-28 to move into the semifinal etion. Up 29-3 at the intermission, appa Alpha utilized a balanced :oring attack headed by Danny forkman with 19, Ed Taylor with I and Jerry Scurry with 14, to ury Chi Psi. The replayed semi-final game rnd the Campus Championship ame are scheduled to start early ext week. Soccer mieup set Carolina's Soccer Club has nounced its starting lineup for turday's game against Erskine >llege, scheduled to begin at 2:00 m. on Intramural Field "A" On the offensive line for the >ccer team will be Kenny Mc >rd, the club's president, at right Ing;'Don Belt at right inside; ith Alain Kamerer at left inside; id Bob Heath at left wing. At the halfback positions will be arry Ready and Val Seiglev. alying fullback positions will be e Soltish on the right, Pete Heath side, with Henry Moore and 'win Boercler ,both on the left. Manning the goalkeeper slot is ennv Jefferson.