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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Saturday rescinded their in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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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)
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