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BY STEVE PARKER
Asst. Sports Editor
It looked like homecoming for
last season's offense Saturday
night as Carolina suffered a 21-0
beating at the hands of Mississippi
in Williams-Brice Stadium and
sent the Gamecocks reeling to an 0
3 record.
The resemblance to last year's
inept offense was uncanny as the
Gamecocks equaled Glenn Morris'
old squad in their inability to
mount any sort of offensive drive.
USC could register only a single
first down in the entire affair, that
coming after 3:25 had elapsed in
the final period, and could account
for only 51 yards of total offense at
evening's end.
The zero on Carolina's side of the
final score failed to indicate the
actual role the USC offense played
in the loss.
The USC defense managed a
fired up effort, shutting out Ole'
Miss in the first quarter and
surrendering just three touch
downs to the Rebels, all of which
were set up by offensive miscues;
a short punt and two interceptions
of Bill Troup aerials.
The highlight of the contest from
a Carolina aspect was the goal line
stand provided by the Bandits with
under one minute remaining in the
second quarter. The USC squad
twice halted one-yard plunges at
the line by fullback Larry Kramer
and so the half ended with USC
down by just 7-0.
Carolina's defense weakened,
probably due to fatigue, in the
second half and surrendered
rushing yardage to the Rebels to
the tune of 282 yards on the ground,
but still proved tough to score
against.
"It's tough when your defense
plays like gangbusters and then
your offense runs only three plays
and punts," said USC Coach Paul
Dietzel.
"I don't know how many plays
our defense played, but it was a lot.
They did just about everything that
we could possibly have asked of
them," said Dietzel.
"Offensively, we just never
generated anything," said Dietzel,
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our defense."
Mississippi's offense ran 88 plays
from scrimmage as compared to
just 48 for the Gamecocks.
USC's defense eventually suc
cumbed to the Rebels, as
Mississippi quarterback Norris
Weese passed for two scores and
slashed in from the four-yard line
himself for another score to pile up
the Ole' Miss total.
The first quarter was a scoreless
battle but Ole' Miss took the lead
Paul
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after just 12:17 of the second
quarter when Weese fired a 21
yard scoring, pass to tight end
Burney Veazey. The scoring play
was set up by Robby Reynolds poor
punt which traveled just 19 yards
and gave Mississippi possession on
the Carolina 32-yard line.
Mississippi scored single touch
downs in both the third and fourth
quarters, the first on Weese's run
and the other on his 12-yard pass to
Bill Malouf with 3:39 remaining in
the contest.
Carolina's offense tried un
successfully to establish a running
attack throughout the game but
could manage just 27 total rushing
yards for their 28 carries. The
passing game was no more ef
fective as Troup could complete
just four of 20 passes for 24 yards.
Jackie Brown snagged two
passes for 20 yards, one of which
was good for 13 yards and the
team's lone first down. Tom
Amrien and Russ Kuritz caught the
other two for a total of four yards.
Dietzel had praise for the
defense of Ole' Miss. "Mississippi
was much quicker defensively
tonight than they showed against
Memphis State. I'm convinced we
played one of the finest football
teams in American tonight."
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