Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Clems BY.STEVE PARKER Sports Editor For many South Carolinians the football seasons of USC and Clemson are divided into two parts-- the ten games which precede the Clemson- Carolina game and the Clemson-Carolina game itself. Phase one of both school's seasons ended last Saturday and phase two occurs Saturday af ternoon when the Tigers and the Gamecocks meet in USC's Williams-Brice Stadium for the 71st game in the yearly classic confrontation. This season, phase two of both school's seasons will decide the relative success of the preceding part of the year. Clemson is 5-5 and a victory by the Tigers would give Clemson's rookie Coach Red Parker a win ning campaign. The effect that would have on future recruitment is obvious-- Parker's program is already superior to that of Clemson's recent coaches but a win Saturday would enable him to label his program a winning one. Carolina also has obvious reasons for added incentive. Women S Win First USC's women's swim team had two relay teams finish in NCAA qualifying times as it won its first meet of the season over Emory 88-42 in Atlanta last Saturday. Both the 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relay teams USC Lettermen Honor Carolina Football Squad The .ighth annual banquet sp)onsered by the USC Association of 1Let termien to honor the Carolina foot ball squad will be held Tuesday night. Nov. 27 in Columbia's Hotel Wade lHampton. Tickets are $10 each and may be purchased at the University ticket office, at a number of other Columbia locations, or from members of the Association of Lettermen. Coach Paul Dietzel will an nounce the list of varsity lettermen f or the 1973 season during the banquet, and a number of other awards will be made. These in dlude the Garnet and Black Spur awards to the top defensive and offensive linemen, respectively. The Steve Wadiak Award will go to the most valuable player of 1973; the Rex Enright Award will be presented to the 1973 permanent team captain. There will also be academic awards to the top upper classmen and top freshmen, and an award to the top scout squad player. The banquet will begin at 7p.m. on-Ca r Victory over Clemson is a necessity if the Gamecocks are to entertain any hopes of obtaining a Peach Bowl berth following the regular season. If USC falls to Clemson, the outcome of Dec. l's Georgia Georgia Tech game is meaningless to the Gamecocks. But if USC wins and Georgia loses, Carolina will make an appearance as the host team on Dec. 28 in the Peach Bowl. Regardless of the preceding half of the year, there is always an aura of excitement which surrounds the traditional battle between South Carolina's. two in-state rivals. This year's version of the game should prove more exciting than~ those of recent years. USC's 6-4 record is a definite improvement over the 4-6 mark Carolina had last year entering the game. Clem son's break-even record represents marked improvement over the 3-7 slate last season. Explosive offenses have been featured by both USC and Clem son. The two veer-offensive attacks have been especially impressive in recent oufings. Clemson put two excellent back to-back offensive shows before ick SpOl wimmers Contest swam in qualifying times for the national championship meet. The medley time was 2:06.5 while the freestyle time was 4:15.8. Eight individuals won races for the Gamecocks, in addition to the two relay teams. Winnie Dan nelley won three races-- the 100, 200 and 400-yard freestyle races. Members of the winning medley relay team were Jackie Jordan, Allison Gieze, B.Z. Gieze andJane Szary. Jordan and B.Z. Gieze were also on the winning freestyle team and Jordan was an individual winner in the 50-yard backstroke and Gieze in the 50-yard fly. The other members of the freestyle team were Joni Acker man, who also won the 100-yard backstroke and Barabara iIelfer. USC's other individual winner was Sandy Gochenour, who won the one-meter diving competition. The women's team's next meet will be Jan. 30 at home against Columbia College. Pointless Classics There have been 31 shutouts in the 70-game old Clemson-Carolina series. Clemson has shutout the Gamecocks 19 times while USC has managed to blank the Tigers just 10 times. Two other games have resulted in scoreless ties. The last shutout in the series was in 1959 when a Bluebonnet Bowl-bound Clemson team shackled Carolina 27-0 Neither Carolina nor Clemson has shutout an opponent this season. Clemson has limited two teams to under 10 points. Every Gamecock opponent has scored at least 12 points, with NC State's 56 points being the most allowed. )Iina Eni Maryland derailed the Tiger ex press last week,-28-13 at Clemson. Before that setback, Clemson scored 35 and 37 points in wins over Wake Forest and North Carolina. Carolina has scored less than 20 points only twice this year. with Miami of Ohio and Houston stifling the Gamecocks the second and third weeks of the year. Carolina has a string of two straight vic tories, '35-14 over Appalachiani BUDGET Specially (mainly Fr Sat Qu 919 SUMT er Pha State and 52-12 over Florida state. Defense has been the weakness of both schools, although neither defensive unit is actually weak. USC's defense has proved erratic several times, but numerous in juries has had much to do with that. Clemson has allowed teams to score 29 or more points. Despite the questionable state of the two defenses, USC Coach Paul Dietzel doesn't foresee a high TAPES and I Priced Mer Factory Promotion 1 each 'iday NOV. 3 urday Nov. only anities Lim ER (Across From U.S.C. Hors4 N1 e Two. scoring game. "I haven't seen too many high-scoring games between traditional rivals. I do think it will be a fur-flying affair." The nature of that remark in dicates the optimism of Dietzel, of course. Dietzel would much rather see fur lying on the carpet of his elaborate stadium late Saturday afternoon than chicken feathers. LECORDS chandise al.Copies) 13 24 ted 'shoel he OSAom 0O ,..