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I sports Irreaular n 9 r I hurts OleA gjj By VINCK MOOItK jg|| Asst. Spurts I'Mitor Ilf you're an Ole Miss football fan, you pri time taking nostalgic journeys into the R Those were the days when the likes of A terrorizing the Southeastern Conference Mississippi Io a bevy of bowl appearances 1971. the Rebels never missed post-seasor BIT TIMES have changed for Ole Miss, will get a first-hand look when they hi Mississippi Saturday. I.using seasons and inexperienced tean Mississippi How l bids became as rare as , And I he Archie Mannings had different nam schools At least for the past two seasons, incons the Rebel teams Last year. Ole Miss manaf and hand SEC champion Georgia their c losses Rut thi? r;.iioiwwJ iiiioiivu ? 11II tl MU*aiO< their last three names by a eombined score < As far as I lie H)77 campaign is concerned, < Ken Cuoper says it's the snnie old story. "It's been a disappointing season so far." < just been up and down. We've played soni some poor football." The Ifehels have played well enough to be season, hut came back the next weekei unheralded Southern Mississippi. Their se> .. - ? - ....... mi tI record. < \ltoi l\ \ CO \('ll Jim Carlcn. howevei the (>lc Miss linchacking corps. But Cooper and injuries have hurt the team there, linebackers have had lo miss practice di Cooper doesn't expect them to he 100 per c< \\ rcks If things weren't had enough, the Rebels the rain three straight weekends, someth iwisii i ik'I|H'(1 any "The rain limits what y >aid "I( li'iuls to make you rely on defense more eonservative on offense." Hul that doesn't mean the wet weather d< Cooper slid the team was so used to it that would rain again (his weekend. If the rain makes you rely more on your pi nothing to worry about Rebel punter .Jim times against (ieorgia last week, averaging The l?are footed punter has averaged 46.2 yar HI T (iooi) |?l'\TK?S have seldom been kdl games. So Cooper is understandably w things One is the Rebels' secondary, a relat since rainstorms usually discourage passin Gamecock WL IF * H JBBA Br Spoils Kriitor ,, Just inside Carolina's football lockerroon ikk.r? displaying, among other things, p; which contain the name and picture of play made "hig plays" in each game. As a female, the extent of my view of the that bullet in board when the door swings o reporters. However. I can make a few cducal to which players made those esteemed footl It It ITT IWKKISII. who kicked the game goal against Kast Carolina, probably sits o football along with Spencer Clark, who rushe and scored two touchdowns against Appalac Hill lii/ilinn K?w>l# ' * " .........>p> ./am t?ii i i*r ViUlllt'l'OCKS 4-2 rCC< season, it would be nice if a few more names c to those "big play" footballs. Like a runn runningback. who could have pushed the ball c to score against (Jeorgia. Or a defensive linen have sacked quarterback Mike Dunn for a fe\ in the second half against Duke. Those big plays don't always materialize th< ss feriMW ibably spend a lot of L'bels* past. rehie Manning were (SEC) and leading ^jMMk . From 1957 through and the Gamecocks I the road to play is came to Oxford, jfrfPI^PPPI i southern snowfall. KJC11i~IpllgBij^ es and went to other istency has marked ^^^BB||i| >pH Inhoal AlaK.,.^.. jj? nly regular season ||| re 5-6 record, losing 1|1 f 105-ie. Die Miss head coach ^ooper said. "We've e good football and at Notre Dame this id with a loss to p-saw play iias left . is impressed with 1S||| said inconsistencies felllp^" ., <1B too. Some of the gjg^pli ??P? *M. in injuries, and V ?nt for two or three SssP I have had to play in ^,1 . ?>. ' I ing Cooper admits 1 >v,v M ou can do," Cooper m and punting and be ,,Jr fl >esn't grow on you. W ho kinH ImrmH ;? f mting, Ole Miss has ' Miller punted nine 49 yards per punt. I ds for the year. I'SC coach Jim C; known for winning the field at William! orried about other i?c r mo nir \idlll(M ively untested area series Saturday aga g s need const sad part about losing games Gamecocks had played the t> ^ capable, a big plav to win iY necessary. In their two lossi USC's play was inconsistent II.SON Hiding on victories 01 | Georgia Tech <17-0) and Mia the Georgia game with what 1 Carlen's three seasons to de y home crowd, an experience loss of outstanding offensive i is ;i hnlloiin howi leam added to Carolin, iper f<x?tballs ers who have llOWKVKK. the game, wl hack shuddering memories ol lockerrom is Forest, when Carolina's offei ipen for male jn dose range of the endzoi led guesses as another Carolina defeat that 1 balls. "if only..." disappointment. Against Kast Carolina, USC winning field many regional television vieu n part of one jn jhe first half. Behind 16-3 i d for 89 yards ? * * ..?vv..hvj uacii uy laning a ;hian State. resulted in a 19-16 win. ird so far this The momentum of that f< ould be added defensive determination carr lingback, any Duke Carolina game. To say >ne more yard would l>e an understatement, tan who could v more losses (WKOI.INA looked like it w? everybody had waited for. Thi ough. But the fr0m 71 and 68-vard drives, pt IF Byn g>n ^jp HP Hi n. 'jtfK2lff^^S8gCMK^?^ arlen won't be running out on * s-Brice Stadium the next four 1 i-oeks begin a four-game road inst Mississippi. Carolina, 4-2 $ istency in < like Georgia and Duke is if the I'SC /pe of football of which they're half le game would have been un- Bn es and against East Carolina, durii degr /er Appalachian State (32-17), Wl mi (42-19), Carolina went into half, ooked like the best situation of time feat the Bulldogs. A soldout DSC 1 niinrfnrhafb uiiu vjcurgia s I'a players from their 1976 Sugar Dukt a's confidence. offen scort lich USC lost 15-13, brought align last year's 10-7 loss to Wake Ho1 ise had difficulty swallowing supei ie. The Georgia game was migh eft fans and players with that incon 1 couldn't ?l ? ..M*v inipl CdSCU lOO way > 'ers with (heir lackluster play hand! in the third quarter, Carolina they'i in offensive initiative which f;,r the fi Hirth quarter offensive and score ied into the first half of the earo USC played well in that half oppoi 35 to: is playing the kind of football XII ree touchdowns, two resulting it Carolina well in the lead as ^j|jj '^fe. BUI MMW-THI O AMI COCK jfter a loss to Duke last week, will play the Rebels, 2-4, in Oxford, Miss. Ole Miss defeated Motre Danie earlier in the season but then lost to Southern Mississippi. QWCV serine - M 's defense limited Duke to three points. Carlen said the was the best he's seen the Gamecocks play. it a lot of people wonder what Carlen said to his team ig halftime to make USC's momentum take a 180 ee turn. lile Carolina couldn't do anything wrong in the first the team couldn't Hr? = * j > . ? i igui in me second. This it was memories of last year's Baylor game, where led 17-0 after three quarters and lost 18-17. rlen said Carolina's defense played "lousy" in the 1 second half, giving up 22 points. USC's second-half sive play, which Carlen descrived as average, never ?d a point although Duke didn't change its defensive ment. w can you explain a team whose play ranges from b to pathetic in a 60-minute game? A psychiatrist t call it schizophrenia. A more simple term might be sistency. ri i? jurti as soon do sweating it out at halftime than be ahead," Carlen said. "We're not mature enough to le positive things. If we get ahead it's an indication re going to come back and get ahead of us." olina, while outscoring its opponents 37-10 and r>6-2f> in rst and second quarters, respectively, hits been outd in the third and fourth quarters of its first six games, lina has scored 17 points in the third nnar??r >vi ill US iv-ihn -21, and in the fourth quarter has been outscored 34 points, 16 of the :i4 against Kast Carolina. K (iAMKCOCKS should l>e f>0 at this point in their See (iAMKCOCKS. page 17