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Wolfpa Fritts powered for. State was despite ( BY GEORGE MORRIS Of The Gamecock staff Last Friday afternoon at 3:45, North Carolina State Coach Lou Holtz took time out in his office to discuss the upcoming game with Carolina before leaving for his team's practice. Lying back on a couch, his shoes off, Holtz put down the clipboard on which he had been diagramming plays and talked about what some figured would be the Wolfpack's biggest problem against USC in its Homecoming game--its own mental preparedness. "The motivating factors are not as predominate in this game as they have been. The first on our list of objectives was to win the ACC championship, as it's always been. We can no longer do that," he said. N.C. State has two con ference losses, and is all but eliminated from the championship. "But," he continued,"there are about 27 hours of football in a year, and you talk about It for the next 365 days. That means for most players there will be a total of about 90 hours of actual playing ck dow, 165 yards but mistakes a i unmspir onsecutiv< time in a career, and you have to live with it for the rest of your life. "I would be very disappointed if our team didn't have the pride to play to win Saturday. I would like to think that we'll play Saturday like we are playing for the national championship." State, however, played what appeared to be uninspired football, and was unable to outplay Carolina as much as had been expected. The Wolfpack effort was mistaken by none of the 41,500 In attendance as that of a team fighting to be number one. State players seemed, with a few exceptions, strangely unemotional after breaking a two-game losing streak that had knocked them out of the Top 20 and the ACC race. Any plans Holtz might have had to attribute the wlh to superior effort had to be aborted. "We got more movement off the lines than they did," Holtz said. "South-Carolina did a better job of' coaching today, but our line played better." "Our team Is funny. We play when we have to, but when we ns Ganm spelled USC loss ed team e losses don't have to it's like seeing a *dentist," he said. *The Wolfpack had to play hard often Saturday afternoon, and they pulled out the win, although it took some unusual plays to beat the Gamecocks. An interception by defensive back Ralph Stringer of a pass that bouncedoff the hands of USC running back Jay Lynn Hodgin set up one score. But the real crusher came when Carolina halfback Kevin Long was unable to control a handoff, and the ball bounced Into the hands of defensive end Ron Banther. Banther ram bled 84 yards for the touchdown. Those plays contributed much more to Carolina's downfall than did any of N.C. State inspiration, line play or playing when they had to. In the quiet USC dressing room, Hodgin summed up what hap pened, when he said: "I think we were ready, but we got some bad breaks. We had things happen that you don't expect to see. Our of fense gave them too many big plays, but we hung in there with them real well." ecocks, Carolina give Stat BY MARK LEARY Of The Gamecock staff RALEIGH-Fullback Stan Fritz crashed through the Gamecock defense 2B times for 165 yards and carried the Wolfpack of North Carolina State to a 42-27 victory at Carter Stadium Saturday af ternoon. Fritz needed only 20 yards to go over the 1,000-yard mark for the season. It was obvious to all 41,500 present at Saturday's contest why lu holt: said : earHer in the season, "I'D put my money on Stan Fritz any time, any plac% and in any situation." After stopping Carolina on its first poession of the game, State took the ball and drove in for the score. 'Ibe much talked about combination of quarterback Buckey (Dave) to wide receiver Buckey (Don), set up the first score with a 14-yard pass recep tion. Blackey gave the ball to Fritz twice, and on the second handoff Fritz crashed over from the four yard line for the score. Even though the final score showed a two-touchdown margin in favor of the Wolfpack, the game was much closer than the score revealed. This is onegame where the leader in statistics did not win the game. Carolina had a con siderable total offense edge of 458. yards, compared to State's 370. In. the pffensive battle the Gamecocks had many bright points on the afternoon. Bobby Marino, who was two-for-eight in field goals for the year, two field goals against State. One of these, a 42-yarder, was the Gamecocks only score in the first quarter. State started a drive with 3:30 left in the first quarter, and when time ran out they were on the Gamecocks13-yard line. It took only 31 seconds and two plays for the Wolfpack to score in the second quarter. Fritz crashed over from the four to score his second, and last, touchdown of the game. Fritz, commenting on his game, said, "Our approach to this game was different than for any other game. We ran straight at them, and I didn't mind," Running back Clarence Williams, another bright spot for the Gamnecocks, rushed for 105 yards on the day. 'The Gamecocks and Williams went 76 yards in nine plays in the seednd quarter; with Williams going the final two yards USC regai 'The annual USC Regatta will be held this Saturday at Lake Murray with seven schools expected to compete in the USC Sail Club sponsored competition at Lake Murray. In competition earlier this season, Carolina finished fots-th In the Citadel Regatta, finishing behind the Clee of Charleston, Clemson and Due, and ahead of North Carolina. 'The USC Sail Club has 91 members this semester, and has 17 42-27 mistakes Victory for the score to make the score 14 10 State. The first of the Gamecocks two bad breaks came after the two teams traded punts. Bass passed to Hodgin over the middle and the ball was tipped and intercepted by State. This gave the Wolfpack the ball on Carolina's 1s-yard line, and it took them three plays to go in for the score. Carolina started a drive with a little over two minutes left in the half. The Gamecocks ran out of time outs, and made them settle for a field goal. Marino split the uprights from 23 yards out. The score at halftie was State 21, Carolina.13, The second half began with the Gamecocks getting a break as quarterback Buckey pitched out badly and USC linebacker Garry Mott recovered the fumble. But as Carolina was driving for the score, the ball popped out of Kevin lAng's hands at the State 16, and defensive end Ron Banther caught the ball in mid-air and ran 84 yards for the t9pchdown. Head coach Paul Dietzel later said "it was the goofiest play I have ever seen. That one play killed us. It scored two touch downs, one for them and it took one from us. Ron (Bass) thought Kevin had it, but he just lost it." Bass was Another Gamecock standout for the second week in a row. He rushed for 121yards on the day, 106 in the second half when he led the Gamecock comeback at tempt. Bass brought the team within one touchdown twice in the fourth quarter, but each time Fritz and Co. came back and sered. After the Gamecocks closed the gap to 35-27 with 3:50 remaining in the game when Hodgin' crashed over from the one-yard line, State took the ball and kept possession. They used up all but 40 seconds on the clock in capping the drive, with Tommy Landon going up the middle for the final three yards. he final 40 seconds went quickly for the Gamecocks and ' the Wolfpack took deceivingly wide margin 42-27, vietory. The Gamecocks defensive coach, Sam Mitchell, shook his head after the game. "It's a strange game. We were moving In for the score to tie the game, and the next thing you know we were behind by two touchdowns." tta slated boats. The semester club plans call for several camping trips, cookouts, parties and work parties. Sail club memnbers also will crew for members of the Lake Murray Sail Club, attend sail classes. Plans are being made for a cruise to the Bahamas for the Spring vacation. USC stuentn and faculty in terested in joining the club should attent the club's next meeting, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. in room 107 of Currell Collee