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Maryland Named To Peach Bowl The Peach Bowl situation became a little clearer Saturday afternoon when officials of the Dec. 28 classic announced that Maryland had been extended and had accepted an invitation as the visiting team. The host team situation remains a mystery, with Georgia and Carolina having the best bets to procure the spot. Georgia's Bulldogs will be host team if Georgia emerges victorious Dec. 1 when it visits arch-rival Georgia Tech. Carolina will receive the in vitation only if Georgia is upset by Georgia Tech and USC defeats its arch-rival Clemson Nov. 24 in Columbia. The outcome of the USC-Clemson game will be academic if Georgia wins the following week. Should both USC and Georgia suffer losses in their final games the Peach Bowl officials will meet again on the afternoon of Dec. 1 to consider other possibilities. ' Last week it had been announced that Arkansas would be the visiting team in the Peach Bowl, but Arkansas' 7-7 tie with SMU Saturday rescinded their in vitation. A Peach Bowl official explained, "We made a deal with Maryland. If Arkansas either tied or lost to SMU we would take Maryland, and that was the situation which developed." Arkansas' replacement, Maryland, has, an 7-3 record. Maryland's losses were to West Virginia, NC State and Penn State. The remaining Terrapin game is with Tulane, which is enjoying a surprisingly good season. Georgia's hopes for gaining the host position were kept alive when the Bulldogs defeated Auburn 28 14. Auburn had once led, 7-0. Georgia's next opponent, Tech, barely slipped past Navy Satur day, 26-22. Georgia Tech fell to USC in the season opener 41-28. The Bulldogs have a 5-4 mark while Carolina's record is 6-4. W hatever the outcome between USC and Georgia concerning the host spot, at least one thing is certain the visiting team will be Maryland. Pizza GET ON SPAGHE Served w.ith Serving wri 3P.M. Til Loented at the inte 1-26 across frori *eU@UnemoUSU4sUU@ee.Ue I' Carolina' Fuels H c BY BOB ODOM Sports Writer The Carolina Gamecocks not only kept their hopes of receiving a Peach Bowl bid alive, but they also kept Florida State's chances of a perfect 0-11 record undamaged as they rolled to a convincing 52-12 win over the Seminoles Saturday afternoon at Doak S. Campbell Stadium. The victory over the winless Seminoles assured Coach Paul Dietzel and the Gamecocks of a winning season as they improved their record to 6-4 going into the final game of the season against arch-rival Clemson next Saturday afternoon at Williams-Brice Stadium. This marks only the third win ning season Dietzel has ac complished in his eight-year stay at Carolina. The last was in 1971 when he guided the Gamecocks to a 6-5 record. Dietzel's previous winning campaign came in 1969 when Carolina finished 7-4 and accepted a bid to play in the Peach howl against West Virginia. IO ..e.UeMeU.u.U.u.".u. t The H ouse E DINNER E FREE! TTIA1 . 95 garlic, bread and chel salad. DNESDAY 1 Midnight rsectIon of 378 ans ai the Ramada~ Inn amecoc Sp ort1 s One-side pe For Pei Peach Bowl officials said after Saturday's game that Carolina's chances of going to their bowl rests on the outcome of the Georgia Georgia Tech game on Dec. 1, as well as if Carolina can defeat Clemson. If Georgia defeats Tech. it would receive the bid over Carolina. However, if Georgia loses to Tech and Carolina defeats Clemson, then the Gamecocks would receive the bid and act as the host school. Maryland has already accepted a bid to play in the Dec. 28 classic. The Gamecocks set several school, as well as individual records against the Seminoles' impotent defense. The school's single season rushing. record of 2,242 yards was broken as the 382 yards USC gained on the ground Saturday pushed the total for the season to 2,542 yards. The Gamecocks still have at least one gane remaining to add to that figure. The Gamecocks explosive of fense, led by the superb play of freshman quarterback Ron Bass, who filled in for the injured Jeff Grantz, broke the record for total offense in one game as it passed and rushed for a combined total of 565 yards. The previous record was 517 yards against Clemson in 1969. Jay Lynn Hodgin broke the in dividual record for most touch downs in one season as his five yard touchdown scamper in the third quarter gave him nine touch downs for the season. He sur passed the 'previous record of eight, held by nine other players, m icluding himself. 1208 Knox Abbott Drive, Pho dVictory :ich Bowl Hodgin said after the game that he was glad he broke the record, but what counted more was the fact that USC won the game. "It's always nice to have your name go down in the record book, but what is more important is that we won the game," Hodgin said."We had a lot riding on the outcome of this game, including a possible bowl bid. If we had lost, it would have all gone down the drain." Hodgin felt the key to the game was that the Seminoles were unable to stop the Gamecock's running attack. "At the beginning of the game we tried to run the outside veer," he said, "but because their defensive ends did such a good job we had to change our game plan and go to the middle with dive plays and play action passes. State then was just not able to contain us." Another Gamecock back who had a tremendous day was running back Randy Spinks. Spinks, who gained 71 yards on 14 carries, got Carolina on the scoreboard early when he broke through the Seminoles' defensive line for a 10 yard burst on Carolina's first possession of the game. Spinks attributed his successful running to the outstanding play of center Darrell Austin. "When you ha.ve a fellow like Darrell who can just blow all three of their linebackers out, it's just really easy to run up the middle," Spinks said. "The only problem, though was getting hit. It seemed to me that they were hitting me harder than any of the other backs." 1s t ae 796-1645; 3200 Two Notcl USC's 52-12 Rout Keeps FSU Winless BY GARY WEST Sports Writer Carolina, paced by a potent offense and a stingy defense, routed punchless Florida State 52 12 handing the Seminoles their 10th loss this season and assuring Paul Dietzel of a winning season. The. Gamecocks wasted little time in proving their superiority by scoring on their first possession of the game on an 80-yard drive highlighted by quarterback Ron Bass' 50-yard option run and capped by a ten-yard touchdown run by Randy Spinks with only 2:54 elapsed from the clock. After USC's touchdown the two teams swapped punts four times, but the fifth punt, by USC's Robbie Reynolds, was fumbled by FSU's Larry Jones on the Seminoles' 19 and recovered by Carolina's Eddie Muldrow on the FSU one yard line. Until this point, the Seminoles were still in the game. But Bass, starting for the second straight week in place of Jeff Grantz, scored from the one giving USC a 14-0 lead. Then USC's defense, which Dietzel termed the difference in the game, set up USC's next touch down as linebacker Garry Mott picked off a Mark Orlando pass and returned it to the FSU 23-yard line. It took the Gamecock's only two plays to reach the end zone as Bass ran for nine yards and then Casper Carter bulled his way 14 yards for the touchdown, dragging two defenders the last five yards. USC added three more points before the half ended on a 32-yard field goal by Bobby Marino. The field goal was set up by a halfback pass from Jay Lynn Hodgin to Muldrow covering 30 yards. Hodgin has completed nine of 11 passes this season from his half back position, three for touch downs, which compares rather favorably to FSU who only had seven touchdown passes before Saturday's game. The Gamecocks picked up 24i yards for the half, 203 coming or the ground and Bass and Hodgir accounting for 164 of the yards. Florida State, on the other hand, picked up a total of 80 yards ir the first half and quarterbacks Orlando and Billy Sexton com pleted only three of 13 passes. Hodgin pushed the lead to 31-0 with 3:37 to go in the third quarter by capping a 98-yard drive with a ten-yard run .up the middle. Hodgin set the record for the most touchdowns in a season with his ninth this year. Florida State finally got un tracked on its next possession and went 79 yards in nine plays to score (See FSU, Page 11) be finest. sh ste Road, Phone 782-48n6