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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
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tempts to run down Mike Doyle as he
lalf action. Doyle was fouled and con>
give the Gamecocks a 60-56 lead late in
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? 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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in the big tournaments. But tl
Watson's image as a choker w
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Nickiaus would win this second
Shooting a British Open recori
Watson finished one stroke ahi
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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