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sports Offensive it> vino: moouk Asst. Snorts h'llilm No out' can blame I SC coach Jim (. weeks. he has been frantically searchinj seems the fellows who put the points on inexplicably disappeared and. as a resi had l>een losing games in bunches. Well, Carlen found the offense at V< hut what he found must have been >< because (he Carolina offensive unit was impression of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. 11\d? ItKTWKKN the 30-yard lines the demonic, ravaging ihe State defense options and strong blocking from the ? within scoring range, they turned mannered, unable to score the touchdo lhem for the past two games. Although the offense gained :UX) yards scored three points. That was not enouj gave the (iamecocks their fourth const "U i> ont JfinAP I...* .mini unvio ?UIII? UUl \\r J points on the lx>ard," Curlen lamented. 3-7 i arulina's ollVnsiw woe coiilimu'ri Saturday at \.( . Stat ... #1... / ?o mi* * lit meeoehs dropped tliei foui'tli eonseeutive game llciv Slexe l)orse\ looks lo running room against the Stal defrost*. Although I)orse\ and hi lea in mates found _'S!t sards o running roam Saturday. Che; nexer found (he end /.one. (ia y ch di| va ( Bass's E pe turnover an decisive ^ off on tui int ca we ph fo< v wh problems co good and the offensive line just not scoring." One Carolina drive was alien il, in recent quarterback Hon Bass v i lor his offense. It Another faltered at the J the scoreboard had settled for its field goal, ilt, the CJamecocks I.ATI-: 1\ the fourth qua State Saturday. the seven. Hut three pi jmewhat startling, tercepted an errant Bass doing a lorimdable have had one more ehanc the State 25-yard line enc The once-vaunted I SC offense often against State, compoundii with well-executed passing game was terribl iffensive line. Hut game sure didn't hurt th< meek and ihild- Indeed, if the t'SC passi w n l hat has eluded rate of decline, it seems d< bumper sticker. Hon Bass total offense, I SC yards, and threw three i gh as the Wolfpack terception was returned b jcutive loss, 7-3. I SC 18, setting up the Woll us^nTIT^^jurTiny ourselves," Carlen said. "Our running was Which is true. A clippir Si i MIKE HUNT t, tmecock Staff Writer jj IVoodrow Wilson and the theory of "sudden ange" was not some kind of foreign v )lomacy Saturday but was N.C. State's ad- p ntage over USC in the Wolfpack's 7-3 win. ^ State coach Bo Hein said a sudden change jst come about when two teams as equally ( itched as Carolina and State compete. And ( the Wolfpack, that sudden change was rsonified by defensive back Woodrow Wilson. (] WILSON INTERCEPTED Carolina quar back Bon Bass' pass in the second nuartpr (1 ran 25 yards. Six plays and IB yards later, li nningback Ted Brown gave State all the c ints it needed to beat the Gamecocks. 1 Rein said the catalyst in the low scoring a ensive struggle was the ability to capitalize d a Carolina turnover. "One sudden rh;?nup f. Dv *ned the whole game around when Woodrow ercepted," he said. "That's what the game I me down to." f< 'I felt like he (Bass) was throwing the ball 3 11, but the coaches helped me by telling me to s ly close to the hash marks and play the )tball more than the receiver," said Wilson, g 10 was awarded the game ball by Kein for his s ntinueas USC > was blocking pretty well. We're first down in the the yardage thi stopped at the N.C. State :*2 when terception. as sacked for a 17-yard loss. >tate eight-yard line where I SC ,NV| audible which re extra burden oi irter, L'SC had a first and goal at punting and ano ays later, a State defender in- u . . ,,Q. pass at the one. Carolina would \ .. , e. hul a Spencer Clark fumble al combination of led its last hope. breaks And it aerial attack never materialized reans. ig me oitensive problems. "Our State fumbled e," Carlen said. 'Our throwing although the Wol sm." ball in the air v ng game continues at its present found the intert sstined for mention on a Clemson course, there we completed one of 10 passes for 11 the most inoppo nterceptions. And the first iny State's Woodrow Wilson to the The defense's | pack's only score. "We're killing defense held Sti great job-holdin ig penalty nullified an important \ * n < umfr ..' u ns,' BKBB8i8MlE^n88-<^^^w88yfcs^ mo interceptions. His second came late in the Ri| irst half, stopping another Carolina drive. expe Perhaps Rein's theory of sudden change 20-y? >ould have failed if not for the constant fouli ressure applied by Pack linebacker Bill the { towher, who had 24 total tackles. Comparing the Wolfpack's 7-3 loss to SO lemson last week with Saturday's game, reali 'owher said, "Carolina moved the ball better at b< nd executed better, but we Dlaved hotter tonm u/. lefense against Clemson." Kvai Gam ANI) \\ ITIIOl'T Brown, Uein's theory could ball' ave just as well been written off as another how ase of post-game hindsight. Brown rushed for To 12 vnrriK to tirino hiv L-ttocnn tnJnl ' > ?"> - ^ ins ovuituii iwiai iu o?)'j yarus were nd 11 touchdowns. The All-American ean- gam? lidate is the seeond back in ACC history to rush gam< or more than 2,000 yards in his first two years. ACC The triumverate of Wilson, Cowher and reeoi irown crystalized Rein's theory into a winning Stat ormula in a game which consisted of a total of Caro 4 first downs and 547 yards total offense, and abov trikingly, only 10 points. An "There was probably more first downs in a stiga ,ame with 10 points than you'll ever see," Rein Cart< aid. prep ft * ! loses second quarter, forcing liass to make up ough the air. That led to Wilson's in lird and short at midfield, Buss called an suited in a delay of game penalty. With the [ five yeards, the Gamecocks ended uo iiner drive was slopped. C's offensive problems were due to a "a inconsistency on my part and some bad was true that Carolina wasn't blessed with five times but recovered four of them. And Ifpack quarterback, Johnny Evans, put the lildly at times, the Gamecock secondary reption just out of their reach. And, of re me uamecock penalties which came at * ^ rtune times. ~ performance prompted Carlen to say, "Our ite lo seven points and that's got lo be a ig <Johnny) Evans, \Ted) Brown and that See OFFKNSF, page !> Britton Andrew- THE GAMECOCK j?ht he was again. But what else can one ct in a game virtually played between the ird lines with lx>th teams repeatedly nfi UD srorinP nnnnrliinWioc ov""' ??' *? V r ---o -rr"" vnvi,|Ji l? "III >ame with a sudden change? MK COACHES, depending on how stically they view situations, call it "luck" jst, and at worst, "the breaks." )lfpack quarterback and punter Johnny * ^ is seemed to lean toward the latter in the ~ ecocks' case. "South Carolina's line a club as we've played against. 1 don't see 1 1 -- mcy vc n>si nve games." use an overused term, State and Carolina ! in the same situation coming into the e. The Wolfpack had lost their last two rs, the Gamecocks their last three. The crown is out of reach for State, but a 5-4 rd going into next week's game with Penn > wouldn't have been as inviting as 6-3. lina was just trying to keep their record e .500. d all it took was a sudden change inted by Wilson and friends to prepare er Stadium as much as a stadium can be | a ared for the eighth-ranked Nitanny Lions.