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Mark L<
Sports Ed
College football is a p
The football experts, t
everything about the gam
turn out knowing nothing
Saturday afternoon A
experts wrong as they dc
was the true meaning ot
priced score boards got tl
teams rolled up a total c
The scene in the Mount
story of the game. Vario
blackboards. Possibly tl
simply and sweetly enou
team, 4'The South Caroli
The series between the
by Carolina until Saturda
the upper hand in the thi
and 74. As a matter of fs
many points Saturday as
the previous games toge
Car lei
It was a worried Jim
conference room after the
to be worried too. He e
linemen on defense were
or in street clothes. And
Carlen had worried about
flUI^BSr it
. MB
kikl
>culiar game.
he men that supposedly kn<
e of football but in the end th
, had a rough day on Saturd;
ppalachian State proved t
jfeated the Gamecocks in w!
an offensive battle. The ov
he work out of their life as kx
>f 74 points.
taineers dressing room told t
us slogans were written on I
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ic iiiUM leu idle uiie sdiu 11
[gh for Jim Brakefield and !
na drought is over."
two teams had been dominat
y's game. The Gamecocks h
-ee previous meetings in T.\
ict, the Mountaineers scored
they had scored in all three
ther.
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i nas worries
Carlen that entered the pr<
; game Saturday. He had a rij
xplained that five of his se>
either on the sidelines, injur
yes this was the same defei
when there wasn't any injuri
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By RAY COOPER
Gamecock Sports Writer
b Appalachian State recei
L opening kickoff in Satu
I ternoon's game. They fum
the second play from scri
and Carolina recovered.
Three plays later Jeff
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uirew iu uaicutc wmicuu
y endzone and it appear
*y Gamecocks were on their
he an easy victory.
iat 'I^e Mountaineers recei
r0j?_ ensueing kickof f and ran th
.. times, amassed 77 yards ar
chagrin of all Carolina sup
tied the heavily 1
Gamecocks.
U Hie touchdown drive
the something for the Mountair
all proved they could move th<
his the ground, a trademark of
Braketieia ieam s tnai ru
, i the wishbone Y.
^ ^ On third down and tl
Appalachian's initial
73, drive, halfback Emmitt h
as ran around right end for 3<
, Hamilton, who had not p
all week according to
Brakefield, ended the day
yards rushing on 17 carri<
A f L or?
/\ner iiis oo yaiu scain
crowd became ominously
ess The flag was hanging limp
ght other end of the field, and
^en breeze that was blowing
p<j breeze stirred up by the
* feet of the Mountaineer b
use Gamecock defense
es. Mountaineers for thre<
tge 9 bringing about fourth dc
m ^ play
long dai
Carolina halfb
Clarence Williams se<
the game's first tc
flntin iui ?u 17.varH i
tmvvai \n? ?* t?ii |
from quarterback
Grant/. It was one of
bright spots in the g
fgi ^ for I 'S(\ as Appalac
S&gg State unset
Gamecocks :5J
* ttBtttt Saturday at Willi;
Briec Stadium.
y Jim Trumpp
HBHEnannMHn
se 4th
ilachia
one yard to
displayed his
?t/irl f Un _
vcv? me onensive unii,
rday af- sixth in the nat
ibled on and eighth in r
mmage going for the fi
the field goal.
Grantz Hamilton then
s in the around left en
ed the rambled for
way to about first and
later second t<
ved the Craig bulled o
e ball 12 yard line. Gar
id to the extra point anc
porters, for the offensive
Favored to follow.
Without que
proved show did follov
leers. It final whistle
3 ball on palachian State
all Jim 506 total yards,
in out of yard per gai
palachian rush
iree on yards which is1
scoring 312.4 yard per
[amilton The Gamecc
i yards. not far behind,
racticed for 149 yards, f<
Coach Williams with
with 95 added 40 yardj
es. 320 yards USC
per, the ground.
quiet. USC had 498
iy at the When added to
the only 506, the two te
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iVAft ^aiuo IUIC
dancing Appalachian
acks. three passes i
held the counting for c
e plays halftime they h
>wn and 234 yards rush
9H| ^ I i
in upsets
go. Brakefield "We do |
confidence in his today," sa
which is ranked quarterbac
ion in total offense offensive li
ushing offense, by line of scri
rst down instead of didn't nee
' tin
iuuoj 9 *ivturned
on the speed Coach Bi
d. This time he that Satur
11 yards bringing largest one
goal. Three playj front of
jam fullback John questionab
iver from the one caused th
y Davis added the fans to bet
1 the stage was set "That <
2 explosion that was started to s
course you
stion an offensive you play a
y. By the time the makes it
had blown. Ap- hear the s
? had accounted for have a sin
well over their 422.6 time, and
nrie average. Ap- Brakefield
ed for a total of 360 Appal
17.6 yards over their Jini Br{
game average. Carolina
>cks, however, were never fel
Kevin Long rushed could g?
allowed by Clarence score."
vsi yaras. urantz . . .
> to account for the ,
accumulated on the f[?rm nC
there wer
yards total offense. 0uj
Apalachian State's 7 AJ"
ams accounted for <^hdow
il offense. Clarence
State threw only
n the first half.ac- . .
,nly 24 yards. A, ^
ad already rolled up ana goal'
ling. Please S
sports
nHnonninn
use
pass more than we did
k a /4 A ?-v fil n n Im r> m Cd n 4
IIU np^uKxuuau ouiic
k Robbie Price. "Our
ine was controlling the
mm age so well we just
d to pass that much
aaaea.
rakefield acknowledged
day's crowd was the
: his team had played in
this season. Some
le calls by the officials
e partisan Gamecock
:ome quite vocal.
lamn Carolina group
cream and holler, but of
i can expect than when
iway from home. Hiis
difficult for our kids to
ignals, but we did not
git UUdlUCd UUI lllg Uldl
I was proud of that,"
said.
achian Slate coach
ikefield said. "When
went ahead 34-30 I
It out of it. I felt if we
ft the ball we could
Tom the paragon perof
both offensive teams,
e some good defensive
\ppalachian State free
inton McKinney made a
n saving tackle on
Williams in the waning
of the first quarter,
ey then stopped Kevin
le one yard line on third
but McKinney was iniee
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