Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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:The Chicke By Steve Parke Collegiate football's pc and went during the ho exception~ of Alabama a clash fo - the national tit were truly memorable. I the Peach Bowl would pr yearlNl version of the class of its failures linger abo Despite the p esence Peach Bowl could only dr 38,000. And a few days bE confrontation the Bow justifiably about how few been able to sell to their c Bowl saw one of the poor The method for choosi consists of many things tractiveness of the team In retrospect, the offic probably regret the matc Maryland's 8-3 regular s( participation, but in the experienced great diffict home games so they coi bring a great following s The situation with Get promised to attract a larg 4-1 regular season mar materia. The Peach Bowl official every tiem they remembe invite Georgia. That team The Gamecocks were qu and by the crowd they Gamecocks proved they Peach Bowl crowd with produced for the 1969 We And Carolina's 7-4 re pressive than it appears. Carolina's losses came nation's top-twenty by bo four of the teams (Houstoi State, and North Carolina Miami upset Florida, NC than two touchdowns ant 47-7. Only LSU suffered a the hands of powerful P( Carolina's showings a respectable, with the ex< trouncing of the Gamecoc ranked above NC State, I points. Predictions for USC's t make. It would hav b predict the turnabout fron But it appears as if th: bowl invitation. Hindsigh1 to criticize the Peach Gamecocks in Columbia. error of judgement they Giese's Effor Spark For U Carolina has had a wrestling club for five years but according to player-coach, Ike Houck, "no one wanted to get the ball rolling before, but now, due to the efforts of Dri. Warren G;iese, Carolina has a team to brag about." ('ariolina's grapplers will par ticip)ate' in a five-team tournament in late .January, along with P em brok(e State and Southern Te'(ch. (Carolina will also meet ('lemnson and North Carolina later in thle season. I SC' is -na-her hyonm oxv a n Coup stseason bowl games came liday season, but with the nd Notre Dame's exciting le none of the bowl games n fact, those connected with obably prefer to forget this ic than to have the memory ut to haunt them. Df local team Georgia the aw a crowd of slightly over ,fore the Georgia-Maryland '1' officials complained tickets the two schools had wn people. The 1973 Peach est school ticket sales ever. ng teams for Bowl games The quality and the at both play significant roles. ials of the Atlanta classic i-up they eventually chose. ?ason record justified their past the Terrapins have ilty selling tickets to their Ald hardly be expected to o far South. rgia was reversed. They e instate crowd, but their 6 k was questionable bowl s probably kick themselves r the team they slighted to was of course, USC. Lalified by both their record promised to draw. The could attract a significant the large following they st Virginia game. cord was even more im For instance, all four of to teams ranked in the th press services. And all 1, Miami of Ohio, Louisiana State) went to bowl games. State beat Kansas by more I Houston trounced Tulane bowl loss and that was at nn State. gainst these teams were ,eption of NC State's 56-35 ks. The other powers, all eat USC by a combined 14 eam next year are hard to een extremely difficult to i last season 4-7 to 7-4. Is past season did merit a is always 20-20, so it's hard Bowl for leaving the For they also must see the committed. -t Provides SC Wrestlers graduate of Slippery Rock Stat4 ('ollege in Pennsylvania. "Cox ha< an outstanding collegiate recor< and maintains disciplin4 t hroughtout practice," said Houck The team practices mn the i-' (Center everyday from 5-7 p.m. Matches are held in the P.E ('enter also. Eventually, th< wrestling team hopes to havt miatches in the Carolina Coliseun p rior t o basket ball games. "'This recognition ~dictates the lut ure of wrestling at USC,"' sait Ilouck. W~ithout funds we wil USCSw Loses 1 BY MARK LEARY Sports Writer The Carolina swim team lost two meets over the Christmas vacation, falling to 19lorida 70-43 and the University of Miami 64-48. Both Florida and Miami are powerhouses in swimming in the United States. Miami is ranked ninth in the nation and Florida 10th. Ed x. M iller The first meet was in Gainesville and the Gamecocks were throughly beaten in Florida's home pool. The meet had bright moments for the the Gamecocks though. The Gamecock of the Meet was freshman diver Ray Klitzke, a former high school All-America. Klitzke won both the one and three meter diving events. Another USC standout in the meet was sophomore Tom Schmidt. He won two events, the 500 and 1000-yard freestyle races. Gymnasts Preparing For Season The women's gymnastics team has been working out four days a week in preparation for com petitive schedule that begins Feb. 2 at the P.E. Center against Furman and Winthrop. Coach Helen Timmermans said women's gymnastics team has improved each year she has been at Carolina. She is in her seventh season as the coach at USCVC. "We started out with one girl seven years ago and now we have a team of 14 very talented girls," said Timmermans. "Every year the competition and the girls get better." There will be five tri-meets in cluded in the womens gymnastics schedule. Included in this year's schedule are: Florida, Duke, Athens College of Alabama, Georgia College, Furman, Western Carolina, North Carolina, Win throp and East Carolina. Four events with four girls from each team competing, comprise a i'ymnastics meet. Floor ex eerecises, balance beam, uneven bars and vaulting are the events. The uneven bars is the most exciting event to watch according to Coach Tim mermans. This event involves the girls swinging from one har' to the other. Many schools give gymlnastics scholarships to girls. Carolina dloes not, b)ut Timmerymans said, "We hope that in the very near future scholarships will be availqble." Tlhe Gamenocjik gymnasts wmt pe(rfor~m at a halftime show at the wome(n's basketball game on Jan. 25. The gymnastic team's roster includes: Betty Stein, Gene Fioramonti, Lynn Bailey, Kathy G;Illesp)ie. Trudie Glenn, Barbara Ba llinlger, Susan Player, Karen \li ner. Winnie D)annelly, Cathy ('ary . Pam Lamnbert, Peggy Willaice. Wendy Parks and Debbie immini o Fla. S The second meet was in the Gamecocks home pool. Schmidt was the standout as he was named Gamecock of the Meet. He won both the 500 and the 1000-yard freestyle events and set a sophomore record in the 1000. Another impressive performance was given by Casey Claflin who set a junior record in the 200-yard backstroke. The two loses dropped the Gamecocks record to 2-2 on the season. Assistant Coach Ed Miller commented on the meet, "Of course we were disappointed to Student Act Dead AWA The Supreme Court bani So let's go LUST FROAi 0' 0 0 * o1 1 Thisis the 093 .wrnig. A wimaring tow cuns From New Line Cinema. Ihe gang w YOU WON'T CL.AP AT F The famous 1929 Marihuana Wes Starring Yakima Canutt, "W THUR - FRi - SA RUSSEL HOUSE T UNIVERSITY UNION~ CINEMATIC ARTS Team quads lose to these teams, but competition like we face during the season does nothing but improve a swimming program like ours. Each time after one of these meets you can see the times improving," Miller said. At the end of the two meets the Gamecock swimmers had one person and a relay team in the top ten best times in the nation. 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