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Deacons provide Dietzel finale New distribution meth Home tick4 Tickets for Carolina's 13 regulal season home basketball games wil be distributed in a new manner this season. The old system of segregating distribution times according to It numbers has been done away witi in favor of a system where all students may enter the coliseum ail any time during distribution and tickets will be allotted until they run out. Of course crowd control will sti be exercised at the door so as prevent a flooding of the coliseur concourse, but as students leav, those at the front of the line will b allowed to enter. Another major rule change als< exists. Students must now pick uj tickets in their own class line. So sophomore holding a senior ID, fo: instance, will have to pick uj sophomore tickets, not senior as he could in the past. Much of the cause of the change in ticket distribution method: resulted from the hassle created b: the Notre Dame of last year, whei tickets were denied to man: students because they had run out "We ran out of tickets fiv4 times," Roger Bocco, .the chie ticket distribution man said of th4 Notre Dame game. "We ran out the first time at 8:00 and we had t4 force people to wait until 9:30 andia lot of them had to go to claps "AMso, it wasn't clear in tli student bill whether those left OVE from the 8:00 pickup should no firi BY JAMES P. HERSH Asst. Sports Editor In -Paul Dietzel's last game coaching in Williams-Brice Stadium, Carolina will meet Wake Forest Saturday night. Wake Forest, probably the worst major college football team in the nation is 0-9 this year and has been outscored by an incredible 304 points to 37. That is and average .score of 34-4. In Wake Forest's third through seventh games of the season, it went through a five-game streak in which it did not score at all, while it let its opponents score 210 points. The average score in those games was 42-0. The Deacons have played some good teams. For instance, they have been beaten by. Oklahoma (63-0), Penn State (55-0) and Maryland (47-0) in consecutive weeks. North Carolina (31-0) and Virginia (14-0) were also involved in Wake Forest's. long scoreless string. In its other games Wake has been beaten by North Carolina State (33-15), William and Mary (17-6) and most recently Clemson (22-9) and Duke (23-7). All of these unusual scores seem to mean that Dietzel will close out his career in the Cockpit with a win over a school he has beaten consistently throughout his USC career. Going into the game he has a 6-2. record against the ods Rt procedurt or get in the back of the 9:30 line." Bocco said. "Now we're going to take care of most of the people interested. We won't aggrevate people all day long. People will be sure that if they stand in line for a reasonable length of time they will get a ticket." The new system would seem to Ticket schedule o The distribution schedule for a USC home basketball games is as * follows: For the Dec. 2 Bucknell game: Nov. 25. y For the Dec. 11iSt. Josephs game: Dec.4. For the Jan. 4 Manhattan game: Dec .12. For the Jan. 6 Fordham game: De c. 13. For the Jan. 18 Davidson game: Ja n. 13. SFor'the Jan. 25 Marshall game: Jan. 20. For the Jan. 28 St. Louis game: Jan.21. -For the Feb. 5 Pittsburgh game: Ja n.29. For the Feb. 12 Georgia Southern game: Feb.6 For the Fep. 22 Marquette game: F eb.14 . For the Feb. 26 Canisius game: Fe b.19. For the March 1 Georgia Tech e game: Feb. 21. r For the March 3 Villanova game: it Feb. 24. Deacons. The game will also be the final home game for a nfimber of USC players Who will be ending -their careers following the Clemson game 'next week. All 12 Carolina seniors on the squad will serve as captains in the game. .Jeff Grantz, the junior quarterback, is expected to be ready to play more this week,after missing the past three games except for brief appearances in last week's game with Ap - palachian State. Grantz has been hampered with - leg injuries most of the year, which has kept him from living up to some of his pre-season billing. Grantz has gained 217 yards rushing and com pleted 25 of 58 passes this year. Ron Bass, who played two exceptional games while Grantz was sidelined leading Carolina to a .win over North Carolina by rushing for 211 yards and to 27 points against*North Carolina State, is still out of action with-a shoulder injury. He will not play at all this week. With Grantz expected to play more, running back Jay Lynn Hodgin will spend more time at' his normal position. Hodgin was moved to quarterback for rmost of - the Ap palachian game, and did a commendable job there, rushing for 140 yards in 24 attempts and completing his two passes for 78 yards. changes lend itself to the possible return of the all-night sleep- out at the coliseum. Before the current semester concludes, the University will distribute tickets for four games, two of which will be played prior to the semester's end and two which will be played over the holiday break. On Nov. 25, tickets will be distributed to the Dec. 2 encounter with Bucknell, which is the season opener. On Dec. 4, tickets for the Dec. 11 affair with St. Josephs will be handed out, while on Dec. 12 and 13, tickets for games on Jan. 4 and Jan. 6 with Manhattan and For dham will be passed out. Ticket - officials also announce they are still accepting ap plications for the first Carolina Classic tournament on Dec. 20 and 21 in the Coliseum. Tickets, $12.00 each, -are available via application at the USC athletic ticket office. And students must pay $1.00 to attend the Nov. 25 intra-squad game, a charity affair with reserved seats. Tickets to the traditional con cluding practice event of the preseason will cost faculty -and staff $2.00 and the general public $4.00. The tournament, which includes LSU, Duke and Princeton, and the intra-squad game, are the only home basketball affairs which will not see tickets distributed in the usual way. Steve Parker Sports Editor The Embarrassment Bowl Much mention was made this past weekend of how postseason bowl officials and several teams already selected for postseason bowls became embarrassed by losses experienced by several of the icipant.Ueams. But hopefully more will come out of te long list of bowl bound losers than just embarrassment. Although losses by Cotton Bowl-bound Penn State and Sugar Bowl-bound Florida can be easily written off those teams have experienced good enough seasons to merit their bowl bids-losses by some of the lesser bowl bound teams will have to make officials pause and examine the situation they've stumbled into. Both teams in the Sun Bowl, North Carolina and Mississippi State, went down in defeat this past weekend making one wonder just what calibre of play the Sun Bowl will entertain this year. North Carolina not only lost its most recent encounter, but the Tar Heel squad was embarrassed by a Clemson Tiger team, 54-32, that appears more worthy of the bowl invitation. But, because the officials of almost every bowl ex tended invitations during the first two weeks of November there is no backing out now. The Sun Bowl does not only have North Carolina as a participant. team, but, because of the early bid offers, the bowl is stuck with them. The Sun Bowl is not alone in its apparent premature error in selection. Vanderbilt, which has enjoyed a fairly strong season including an upset of Florida, was invited to thePeach Bowl prior to last week's meeting with Kentucky. But Vanderbilt was ambushed in that game, 38-12, leaving its probable encounter with the third best team in the Southwest Conference, Texas Tech, as unattractive to the football fans in Atlanta. The two leaders in the Southwest Conference, Texas and Texas A & M, also lost and dampened the at tractiveness of the Cottorr Bowl, but those teams and Penn State are still worthy of bowl participation. All in all, although several bowl-bound teams lost this weekend, a few of those losses point out the weakness in extending bids during the midge of the season, as most bowls chose to do this year. Certainly all the losing bowl teams could rebound these next few weeks and make the bowl selectors correct in all their choices, but it would seem as if the bowl selectors themselves wouldn't want to take such a risk themselves of embarrassing the bowls they represent. It would seem as if the wisest course of action the NCAA officials and Football Coaches Association could make when they both meet in Washington, D.C. in January, would be to reinstall the requirement that bowl bids not be announced until the last week of November. The rule was lifted this season and already the bowl officials trying to outguess each other has shown why the rule existed in the first place. Interesting visitors When Carolina's football team p lays home games, the travelling party usually includes administration of ficials, scholarship donors and the like. When the football team ventured to North Carolina State the travelling party included two members of the Board of Trustees, reviving rumors of Lou Holtz as a candidate for USC's next coach. No gubernatorial candidates Apparently some members of the Carolina com munity believed the column which appeared in the last issue of The Gamecock which jokingly mentioned Pug Ravenel as a possibility for next coach at Carolina. Ravenel, as far as The Gamecock knows, never has expressed an interest in the job. However, Richard Nixon has.