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gawecl A ppa BY JIM HERSH Asst. Sports Editor Applachian State, who has lost to such powers as East Tennessee and Florence State,- will play Carolina Saturday night at Williams-Brice Stadium and probably will get the Gamecocks back on the winning track after two straight losses. Paul Dietzel said Tuesday at his weekly press conference that "we can't take anyone lightly. On any level anybody can beat anybody on any given day." However, realistically there is only one way to take Appalachian ON ASSEMI A Gameco Special! Cuffed Casual Si LEVI LIVE-IN MALE Real sharp selection colorful plaids, check and solids, too! Sizes 28 to 38 Assorted lengths. Regular to 1 If you're looking for and your clothing bu Shop B. Berry's Ock sports :chian I lightly. Last year USC tried very hard to hold down the score on Appalachian and still beat them 41 7. This year Carolina, who has scored 29 points against LSU, 41 against Georgia Tech and 35 against North Carolina State, will use other methods to hold down the score. First of all, quarterback Jeff Grantz will definitely not play. Grantz, who played on a bad ankle last week, has his ankle back in a cast and doctors said Tuesday the cast will stay on at least until the middle of next week. Freshman Ron Bass, who started against NC State, is ex pected to start the Appalachian Bank Cards LY ck Lcks by of 5.00 . 88 style, fit and comfort dget will streach furth4 116 Assembly Columb Ga. Tech Wants Ki Georgia Tech's athletic director, who says long kickoffs are making college football games dull, has asked the NCAA Football Rules committee for permission to ex periment with kickoffs from the 30 yard line in a future Tech :'ame. VIo Risk game. Bass showed he could run the veer when he led the Gamecocks to 21 points in the final quarter against NC State, but while Grantz is around Bass probably will not play much unless Grantz is hurt. Another offensive starter, senior guard Rick Anthony, will miss the Mountaineer game. Anthony in jured his knee in the game last week and will be replaced by soph more Mike McCabe. Defensively, the Gamecocks may have Bob Roe, a senior end, back in the lineup for the first time since he was hurt in the Miami of Ohio game. "We're happy to have him back," Dietzel said of Roe's Welcome Master Charge Bank Americard r.4 ta~; Ath etic ckoffs Mo "Both pro and college football games are getting duller and duller, and I think the simplest, best rule change to remedy the problem would be to kick off from the 30 rather than the 40," Tech's Bobby Dodd said. Dodd said kickoffs which can't To USC return. "He's a great team leader." Meanwhile, linebacker Bill Cregar, who injured an ankle, and linebacker Grahl Phillips, injured hip, are questionable starters. Even with the injuries, the Gamecocks should neither have trouble moving the football themselves nor stopping- Ap palachian from scoring. Appalachian uses the wishbone offense and their leading rusher is Jim Tucker, 317 yards and a 3.9 average, who is not expected to start against USC. The best starter halfback Charlie Haugabrook had 203 yards and a 3.1 average. The Mountaineer's starting quarterback is Phil Coccioletti. Coccioletti had completed 53 of 118 passes for 874 yards and four touchdowns. Two freshman--end Dan Abraczinkas and linebacker Mike Waters--are expected to start on defense for Carolina. "We've put some freshmen into some impossible situations, " Dietzel said Tuesday. "This is the best freshman team we've ever had. "We've had a lot of freshmen get a lot of experience. Unfortunately our opponents are putting a lot of points on the board while they are getting that experience. "The freshmen are the best athletes we have," Dietzel con tinued. "But, when they are put into a situation where the game depends on them, they revert to playing like freshmen." Against Appalachian Dietzel should have no worries about playing freshmen. Appalachian probably can't score against any decent team and they will not put enough pressure on USC to make the. game's outcome depend on anyone. AARDVARK I I . I Looking for hard to find' I oldies by The Crystals,g I Shirelles, Beach boys. I Sendj for information abouti 1catalogue to aardvark1 gMusic P.O. Box 69441' I Hollywood Calif. 90069 *e e We inwIse oy, ~ ~ wvpv .. - sl- wo p mu iarge v Director ved Back be returned "not only takes away one of the most exciting plays of football, the kickoff return, it makes a team have to start from its own 20. Then, after two running plays it's third and five or third and four, and nobody is willing to risk throwing that deep." By moving the kickoff back to the 30, Dodd said offensive teams will start up the field further and the game will be more wide-open and exciting. "The battle for field position is one of the best parts of football, and these long field goals and long kickoffs are taking that away," Dodd said. Dodd said a study of last year's Bobby Dodd ...wants kickoffs at 30. Georgia Tech games revealed that in 10 of the 11 games, the team which kicked off to start the game got the ball in better field position than the team who received. In a Georgia Tech-Florida State freshman game kickoffs were from the 30-yard line and Dodd is asking that the Yellow Jacket's be able to use the 30-yard rule in a varsity game. "We would like to be a guinea pig for a varsity game, but we have to get special permission from the Football Rules Committee ," Dodd said. Dodd said he isn't committed to the 30-yard line for kickoffs. "The colleges could try it from the 35 yard line and let the pros kick from the 30," Dodd said. USC Jumper Places First In N.C. Meet The USC Sport Parachute Club sent eight jumpers to a meet in Raeford, North Carolina this past weekend, Nov. 3 and 4. Cleve Ard placed Ist in Novice Accuracy and 2nd in Novice Overall. The Overall category combines each jumper's scores in both style and accuracy. Tom Taylor placed 4th place in the Novice Style division. There is one more meet scheduled for the North and South Carolina council in December, which the club plans to attend. The club is presently planning a trip to the Collegiate National Parachuting Championships in fIlinois over the Thanksgiving Flolidays. ale charge 9 "Arcade MaU 1330 Man Street, Downtown,