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BY DOUG WILLIAMS
Sports Editor
Thirty-five minutes before Saturday nigl
between Carolina and Virginia, fifteen of USC
came out onto the field. The stadium, thougl
pletely full, roared their support. The band
Carolina fight song and was its usually rar
selves, leading cheers and being generally sp
At 12:18 in the fourth quarter, the same I
streaming toward the exits. Just four minutes
Gamecock quarterback Bill Troup had been tra
straight times behind the line for big losses, the
When the game finally came to a dismal end
just a skeletal crowd of diehards sitting in I
Some were yelling encouragement to their fooi
Most were yelling obscenities.
Last year, Carolina trounced the Cavaliers 34
after the opening kickoff in that game, the light
This year, the lights also went out, but not ir
electrical manner. They went out on the U:
team.
Against a less superior team than the Virgini
ago, Carolina suffered a humiliating 24-16 loss ii
Brice Stadium. The offensive line, though
inexperienced, had little luck stopping thi
defenders, as Troup was sacked 12 times. Need
no semblance of a ground game was ever
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;C football Despite the unintentional efforts of Carolina'
inexperienced line to prevent him from d
Gamecock quarterback Bill Troup put on a
a of a year display of near-record breaking performance
i Williams- In Troup's first contest at USC he coml
young and record-tying 24 passes out of 47 attempts for 31
Cavalier just six short of the school record held by
Suggs, including two touchdown passes and
less to say, terceptions.
remotely What made Troup's totals even more impress
the almost nonexistant blocking supplied for hir
pass attempts. Twelve times Troup was c
passing and on three other occasions he was fc
scramble for safety.
"Their defensive line whipped the fire out
offensive line," commented Coach Paul Dietzi
had a bunch of green lineman and they got some
inauguration.
"Our passer took some lacing, but I though
did a good job when he had time to pass," he add
Despite the number of times the transfe)
terback was sacked he still managed praise
young line, "There're some real good players u
They work real hard but they just need time to d
The Green Bay Packers worked twenty years <
blocking before they developed World Cham
form, you can't expect to build an offensive line
?k two weeks."
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"Virginia played fired up football, they came right to
us from the word go. They were out to gun South
Carolina down and I guess me, too," added Troup.
Young, so The pressure on Troup was even greater after
i aerial Carolina failed to establish a rushing attack. The
Gamecock efforts aground netted a total of ten yards.
leted a Also Troup's offense was forced to play catch-up
i yards, football throughout most of the last three quarters of
rommy the affair.
two in- Wide receiver Mike Haggard, who had quite a game
himself, praised Troup, "He's about the best quar
ve was terback I've ever seen and all he needed to have a
i on his winning attack was a split second more to pass, if that
ropped much."
reed to Haggard latched onto seven of Troups' passes for
110 yards, including a 37-yard scoring jaunt.
of our Of Troup's 24 completions only three were quick flips
1. "We to his running backs and the rest were sent into the
kind of hands of his tight end and wide receivers. Jackie
Brown paced the receiving corps with nine snags for
Troup 140 yards.
ad. Running back Ron Parson saw flaWs in the overall
quar- team spirit rather than just the poorous exhibition of
or the blocking by the uffensive line. "We were just flat, not
there. really up for the game at all, and they were just up for
velop. it.
n pass- "It's not so much that our blocking was bad, but we
onship were just dead," added the transfer running back."
in just Statistics and observation would indicate that the
blocking was indeed bad.
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