Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Defense Rei Garr BY STEVE PARKER Sports Editor Blacksburg-For a while it appeared as if Carolina's defense was hesitant to put USC Coach Paul Dietzel into the ironic situation of achieving his 100th career victory while resting in a Columbia hospital bed. But the defense apparently realized about halftime that it was better to put win number 100 on Dietzel's slate in his absence than to pin loss number 87 on their ailing coach. Behind a regrouped defense, Carolina held onto a 24-17 halftime lead to defeat winless Virginia Tech 27-24 Saturday afternoon in Lane Stadium. Carolina's offense put enough points on the scoreboard in the initial half, 24, to win the average game, but their defense was ex tremely weak and surrendered scores easier, if not as often, than did Tech's defensive unit. The Gamecock offense scored after long, ball controlling drives which featured strong running from running backs Jay Lynn Hodgin and Randy Spinks, and quarterback Jeff Grantz. But Tech's scores came much easier with long-gaining plays either scoring or setting up the score. On the second play from scrimmage Tech quarterback Ricky Popp cranked up and fired a 74-yard touchdown pass to speedy receiver Billy Hardee streaking down the lefl sideline behind badly-beater defender Mel Baxley. Bottoms pre The Dressed Ur Ip GofoIlasst I from urlasses tol shirts, knits, prints I And for cool fall evel I or blazer. All from I TI3 I 22MANSRE ICOUBAS.C290 groups For Die iecocks Tech's second score, a field goal, was set up by a 46- yard Popp pass to his other fleet receiver, Ricky Scales. Scales and Popp combined for a third Tech score on a 36-yard pass. The final Tech tally showed just as much explosiveness with Hardee retruning a kickoff early in the second half 96-yards for the score. But each Tech score was countered or preceded by a Carolina score that involved, not the lightening ex plosiveness of Tech's style, but calculated drives. After VPI's score on their second offensive vlay, USC 8 Tops sents > Look for Fall E football games or ew dressed up or blends. Choose4 action of baseball or western shirts. uings, add a jacket lottoms and Tops. tzel's 100th W Keep T marched right back and scored the tying touchdown on a nine play, 62-yard drive that con sisted only of running plays. The drive was capped in typical Grantz-like poise, as the sophomore quarterback bobbled the snap from center on the one-yard line but regained control and plunged in for thp aonrp 'USC never again trailed after Bobby Marino kicked the longest field goal of his varsity career at 42 yards to put the Gamecocks up 10-7 later in the first quarter. Marino later added his second longest field goal of the ..... . Mch Win season with a 36-yard boot. The kicks both came at im- t] portant times and eventually il proved to be the margin of ( victory. The scoring exhibition V stopped in the second half as a both defensive units improved f considerably. While Tech's v receivers had burned h Carolina's defensive backs in s the first half, the trick was r turned in the second half. Popp passed for two scores in the first half, but he and the s entire Tech offense failed to ( score in the second. VPI's t second-half score came on i Hardee's kickoff return. t pc t Thomas A. Price The Cr( L terary I need FiCt ion, film scenarios and critici., criticism for its fall issue. All manus spaced, and accompanied by a self manuscripts are to be returned.' T iterary Magazine, Campus Box 51: *************** * VOTEMONDA SGA NEDS YO ELE JAEi hF-A PU.O VOT IN T RUSSELL ' less But Carolina's defense made le big plays in the second half, itercepting three passes. rary Mott tipped a pass and athered it in himself. C.A. Vilson dove for a tipped pass nd pulled it in with his ingertips and Henry Laws, iho was burned often, jumped Ligh into the air to make a key, pectacular interception aidway through the fourth juarter. Offensively there were many tars for the Gamecocks, but wrantz again stood out. Grantz it 13 of 22 passes for 203 yards, neluding six of six in the first ialf, and rushed for an ad litional 51 yards with two one rard touchdowns. Backs Hodgin and Spinks ,eyed the USC ground attack, vith totals of 98 and 76 yards espectively. Hodgin also ossed a 39-yard pass to Mike 'arrell and while the pass was lightly underthrown the play o shockedthe Gobblers that it vent for a touchdown. Farrell proved a more than kdequate replacement of split nd Jim Collins, who quit the eam earlier in the week, by )acing the team with six -atches for 128 yards and a *core. The victory put Carolina's )ietzel 14 games above the .500 nark as a coach for his career, >ut it could only raise the 3amecock mark on the season :o 2-2. Still, that is what most )eople expected for the team at :his point, thinking that the ,esults of the Georgia Tech and Wiami games would probably ave gone the other way. Virginia Tech now is an 0-5 team. 0 0 a0 0a0 0 00 00a0000 *a0 *0 00 0 0 0 00 00 0 icible lagazine ;m, plays, poetry and general cripts must be typed and double addressed, stamped envelope if rhe address is: The Crucible 17. **************** * OCTOBER 8* JR SUPPORT * NOODS 'HOM ORE DIST 15 4OUS E OR CMISEUjiM