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"sjptr . ^^HBfaf^*'-*' .. " f.N ft**.-. -..(fjiT Virginia Tech's Ron Bell atf drives the baseline In second I verted on the three point play t< the game. - r JA Another semester is beginning there are a few things which w< This semester's sports section ' reader, can be more involved ii A weekly column will begin ' This rnlnmn will cive the readei Feedback" will also give the r suggestions and perhaps ev< presented this semester. I can munication between the sports tion of The Gamecock this ser For those who may not kr selected Steve Cauthen as its S the renowned teenage jockey, Cauthen's performance ranks u other great performances inclu have been chosen over Cauthen In looking back at 1977, on< Sportsman of the Year award si player many Americans had h came to America and brought s The North American Soccer 1 arrival. The reason was si super star who would bring football, baseball, and basket York Cosmos and with his championship. But of all of Pele's accompli achievement came on Aug. 14 Fort Lauderdale in a NASL p attended the game, the larges in or i n America, wiuioui uic ? America would never reached To people around the world dynamic appeal which attract 01 popularity in /vmeriua 11 cnj to him. Pele is the Sportsman i on the field but also for what he ;.*V Stave McCormack- THE GAMECOCK tempts to run down Mike Doyle as he lalf action. Doyle was fouled and con> give the Gamecocks a 60-56 lead late in \ni-7_ TL. , f i i: x nc < latt Ward Sportalk ?J ? and with the new year already upon us e hope will be different from last year, will provide some changes so you, the n what is occuring in the sports world. Thursday entitled, "Sports Feedback." a forum to voice his opinion. "Sports eader an opportunity to criticize, make jn compliment ideas wmcn win oe only hope there will be a two-way cornstaff and the readers of the sports secnester. HIMMHMM low, Sports Illustrated magazine has portsman of the Year for 1977. Cauthen, earned over $6 million riding last year, ip there with the very best. Yet, there are ding one by an athlete I believe should as Sportsman of the Year. > nnnnmnliehmpriti; til it Hip J OtVO IIIOIIJ WWWIIl^nikJUi.?v??vw, >vw? ?..V hould have gone to Pele, the great soccer eard about but rarely seen. In 1977 Pele occer to public attention. league had been floundering until Pele's mnln Amoriran snrr.^r npprfed ;i to the sport the kind of respectability ball have enjoyed. Pele joined the New play guided the Cosmos to the NASL shments, while in America, his greatest t, 1977, when the Cosmos played host to layoff game. A soici-oui crowa ?i //,tm t crowd ever to attend a soccer game in ppearance of Pele the game of soccer in the proportions it did in urn. Pele is soccer's Habe Ruth. He has a s all fans. When soccer reaches the level oys all over the world, credit can only go of the Year not only for what he has done ; has done off the field. Gilloon, Doyle star use up By TERESA MIZZELL Gamecock Staff Writer Carolina upset the Virginia Tech Gobblers 71-70 Saturday at Carolina Coliseum as guards Jackie Gilloon and Mike Doyle led the scoring with 21 and 22 points respectively. Gilloon and Doyle took up the slack in USC scoring when center Jim Graziano and forward Goalie Augustus got into early foul trouble. In the second half Gilloon and Doyle scored 31 of USC's 35 second-half points to keep the Gamecocks ahead while the Gobblers mounted a comeback effort. "The reason for the one-sided scoring in the first half was that Viroinin Twh's dpfpnsp was overplaying our big men and leaving the lane open for driving lay-ups by Gilloon and Doyle," Carolina head coach Frank McGuire said. "The use of a center-open offense allowed Gilloon to control the ball. But a lot of credit must eo to the people who came off the bench when Jimmy (Graziano) and Goalie (Augustus) were in foul trouble," he said. The first half ended with Carolina leading 36-29. USC outshot the Gobblers 41.7 per year's be Another outstanding athlete in baseball's Ge rge Foster of the C incfno/J nn f bn r ICIIUUU tcilivi U\l uioivau UII liiv V Yankees and Hod Carew's attem Foster, the National league's M around year since Carl Yastremsl Cincinatti Reds leftfielder hit 52 ht were league highs The only majc batting title won by Dave Parker average to Foster's .320. Foster's outstanding year was lacl tu/n upnrs ho h?K hasp! teammate Joe Morgan said," Get little." Foster may not say as much a black bat has been doing all the highest total since Willie Mays hi batted ii\set a Cincinatti Reds t< ch's 148 total in 1970. It is a shi receive the attention it should t Another athlete who had a su Watson. In previous years Wats( 1975 British Open. Yet, he had tournaments such as the 1974 an Watson emerged during the 197 Watson started the year off we the Bing Crosby National Fro-An Crosby, he set a tournament re if t HUWt'VUI', guillg IIIIU lilt 111 Jl Master's, Watson lost final rou Championship and the Heritage Although the majority of attei time champion Jack Nicklaus, V Ben Crenshaw. It appeared the again when he missed a two-1 However, he proved his critics w last eight holes. Watson earned 1 foot birdie putt on the 17th gr * " - 4 U>ivtlf/vMA^ l> i o n r? WiUSUll f> uil uic, uuunci tii ma n(j Yet many members of the me in the big tournaments. But tl Watson's image as a choker w ? ? - " *"! " ?r-v >> 1111 t Va ruuuiub ?rtl!)Ull puii vu wiiii Nickiaus would win this second Shooting a British Open recori Watson finished one stroke ahi ? d sets Virgin: cent to 29.4 per cent, but Carolina converted only six of 12 free till u wo. "Though we didn't shoot well in the first half we were able to stay in the game because of the missed opportunities which South Carolina had at the free throw line," Virginia Tech head coacn cnarne moir saia. iney got after us early on the boards and we were lucky to be only down by seven." The ball moved swiftly in the second half as the Gobblers tightened the score. Carolina scored only 14 points through 12 minutes of the second half as Virginia Tech applied a fullcourt press on defense for most of the second period. Though the Gobblers tied the score four times, they were unable to go ahead as Jackie Gilloon hit two froo thrnujc vi/ith 11 cp^nnHc lpft to clinch the victory. "We played bad last game. The pressure was on and we played well even when Virginia Tech pressed us," senior guard Gilloon said. "We played better tonight because we were aggressive from beginning to end. We also played smart heads-up basketball towards the end of the game." The Gamecock's spread-zone defense was effective in stopping ;st 1977 neglected by the media was inonatti Reds. The press had its atiaily shenanigans of the New York pt at hitting .400. ost Valuable Player, had the best all <i won the Triple Crown in 1967. The >me run s and drove in 149 runs. Both >r category that eluded him was the of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a .338 the baseball story of 1977. Over the jail's most deadly clean-up hitter. As >rge is the kind of guy who says very is scKmany other athletes do, but his talking. Foster's 52 home runs is the t the same total in 1965. His 149 runs jam record which broke Johnny Bename'that Foster's great year did not lave received. per year in 1977 was pro golfer Tom on had shown promise by winning the i i - i ? ? i ueen MIOWII I?J IUSC icous m UK uig d '75 U.S. Opens. But a different Ton1 7 golf season. 11 by winning two early season events i and the Andy Williams Classic. At tin cord with a four round total of 273 major tournament of the year, th< nd leads in the Tournament Flayer: ition at the Muster's centered on five /atson shared the final round lead witl usual Watson choke act would happei foot putt for par on the 10th green rong as he outdueled Nicklaus over tin lis green jacket by sinking a curling 2 een while Nicklaus, after hearing o proach to the 18th green. dia still believed Watson lo ih? a enoite he tournament that finally destroye as the RritishOpen. For the final l\v Nicklaus Though many believe confrontation, Watson came out on t<>| d of 268 on rounds of fi8,70,6f> and (J! sad of Nicklaus. See SPOKTALK, page 2 Sports La Tech Virginia Tech's lefthanded guard Marshall Ashford, who scored 13 points before fouling out, and forward l^s Henson, who scored 15 points. Kichie Wejnert believed the difference to be the intensity at which Carolina played. "We played against Stetson we just didn't start playing basketball until there were about 10 minutes left in the first half. By that time we could never get back in the game if we wanted to," he said. "In tnnitfht's Damp wp wprp ready to go from the opening tap until the end. In previous games we let teams get the lead on us and we could never come back because the team we would be playing would never let us back in the game. In tonight's game once we got ahead we fought like mad to stay there." VJry Hllld&llCS program droDDed jl jl By DOUG JOLLKY Gamecock Staff Writer The gymnastics team will 1m? dropped from the women's athletic program after the completion of this season. Pam Parsons, women's athletic director, said the lack of major competition in the area year round training facilities were the main reasons for cancelling the program. n..i n ..L I u mil DUU ?>II11C, lilt: ^IIIIIUMIWA coach along with players, parents and local gymnasticschool instructors disagreed with the reasons given, particularly the lack of competition in the area. "The reasons they gave were wrong . They gave me no chance for a rebuttal, and they cut the program before the season actually started, the year the program was finally getting off the ground," White said. "I'm not out of a job yd, but I'm not going to contest it just yet. There will oe plenty people out mere i right now who will, though." Parsons said the decision to [ cancel the program was difficult i but logical. "1 know that some people will be hurt by the decision, and I'm sorry it had to ? happen." Funds budgeted to the ? program will be redistributed > among the remaining five women's sports Gymnasts recruited uy 1 .nwiina tun i remain here .ind their i scholarships will l>e honored for (he full four ye.u > beyond the e Association of Intercollegiate 0 Athletics for Women's two year f requirements, n they can transfer to another >< hool where r they can compete without U JKMIilliy. o "The lack of dov rlopment of d gymnastics in the .m a creates a >. problem in finding competition for the type of program we want to have at Carolina." Parsons ,3 See 1.* OTIVV? I iv s, pan*