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THE GAMECOCK Sports August 29, 1984 ? Page 13 !5 ra6U^nHHHH^^HF \ I Tailgate time Tony Chastain and (on left), Charlie Campbell tailgat season. New legislation could force some parties' em Former Clemson pi traded to New Enc Ru Thn AccnriatnH Prnss SUWANEE, Ga. Climaxing a week of wheeli ing, the Atlanta Falcons have waived 13-year Yeates and starters Mike Zele and Bo Robinso third-round draft choice Rod McSwain to New Along with three other trades in the past f moves constitute the most radical week of perso since Executive Vice President Eddie LeBaron 1 club in 1977. In cutting their roster to the National Foe regular-season limit of 49 players Monday, the waived rookie running back Tim Tyrrell and linpharL-^r Havp I pvpnirk and nlaced cornerba and tight end Ben Young on injured reserve. COACH DAN Henning also said that tigh Miller would have been waived if he hadn't trac New Orleans. Henning added that the Falcons a possibility of acquiring another running back in i William Andrews, out for the season with a da Although Yeates was the least surprising veterans waived Monday, Henning called the n difficult of the day. Yeates, a 6-0, 257-pound ? has undergone three knee and two shoulder opei his career and faced an uphill battle in camp ' healthier linemen. "Yeates was the most difficult of all these i because he works hard and displays a determinat for the game that you like to have," Henning was in a situation where if he practiced every da down. We have to move along, to try to look { little bit." "I've played (here) 11 years, which is 11 yeai thought I'd play," Yeates said. "I think it pro! (Henning) as much as it hurt me." DEFENSIVE TACKLE Zele and halfback R as starters until they were cut, were victims of ui nagging injuries, Henning said. Zele, a sixth-year man, had been projected left defensive tackle, but "he had enough nag nothing serious but enough to hamper him ? t sure he was going to be able to start the seas said. Last Thursday, that uncertainty prompted See, "Fe '2. t ariot W ting <$( /aw] lC" Pan! I ' tfiel sonl ^ ***, , H^'flHHflHHH^H^In&ra i fl^i too] J^jPPBBBBBWHBBWi 1 ^^00^ tioJ BHBBMBBBBBSSHEfllil ?i c'cl itfHI^HHHfif KSf ^arJ fcS^' n i a 1 COrB " bPSf "n'l i^Hb., HAMU Iriil J #Hh be UHK finfl off kcc Pboto by Mtry Ann HoMis US po e during the Clemson-Carolina football game last re! J. 1 ? Wjj^Joni ing and deal- ';^S| veteran Jeff |H^ n and traded HRft *d~~ ?"* England. ^f' .. ?* ****# '' _ |?fir> - ~*&K Falcons also 1 second-year Editor's note: the follow^ ck Earl Jones begins a weekly series of colun by members of The Gamecc sports staff it end Junior led Sunday to In coming to Carolina, Joe M re open to the rison became the Gamecocks' 2 the absence of head football coach and third ir maged knee. many seasons. Some players s ?'i? * l 1 name among mey aian i ukc me uuu?. love the most But within a year, the good i iefensive end, in a black hat brought a winning rations during titude to Carolina, something with younger, Gamecocks have lacked in j seasons. With the new attitud< winning season to match can't slayers today, far behind. ion and desire While talk of a bowl bid said. "But he ridiculous before last season, c iy he'd get run fidence now runs high around it the future a Roost. Recently quarterback \ Hold flatly stated, "This year w rs more than I going to a bowl game. There's >ably hurt him doubt." MAYBE THAT'S pushing it at obinson, listed stage of the game, but one thir ncertainty over certain: before his second sea Morrison has ended years of co as the starting sion in Carolina's football prog ;ging things ? with a positive outlook and stab hat we weren't ing influence. ion," Henning As a New York Giants stan< for 14 years, Morrison earned the Falcons to nickname "Old Dependable" Icons," page 15. L rinking law t< ffect tailgater i Staff and Wire Reports problei hile alcohol consumers under the age Insid 9 worry about the new drinking age law, Contrc her new form of legislation will be affec- agents Gamecock football fans and their now- license ous mobile tailgate parties. are sol juth Carolina's new open-container law But t affect in January, but Gamecock fans the ag face the legislation for the first time this police with USC's opening home football game ABC t. 8. slack 1 atrol Col. P.L. Meeks said the State at the hway Patrol is ready to enforce the new , designed to curb the driving cocktail MA ies so noDular before past Carolina to the tests. street < busine AS MANY patrolmen as fans will be in Johi street," he said. "But probably in the lebody will get eaught who doesn't read would paper or listen to the radio." on the he state's new open-container law, which "Sti k effect in January, prohibits consump- by the i of alcoholic beverages in a moving vehi- some 1 "We've made several hundred cases so the pe " said Meek, adding, "The law's pretty store t n." "If Jnder the law, it's illegal to have an open people tainer nf alrnhol in a mnvine vehicle nle an ess it's inside a compartment like the we ha ik or a glove compartment. Violators will used t guilty of a misdemeanor and could face a ; of up to $100 or up to 30 days in jail. DEI -leek said the Highway Patrol has deter- Coluri led fans cannot legally drink in a closed- would passenger compartment of a larger traffi< reational vehicle. And he thinks the sheer sence of officers at the football game will manp :p problems to a minimum. opentraffi DESPITE THE new law, Meek said he traffi esn't expect any major problems at "I >C's Wiliiams-Brice Stadium wnen the fans bypr< ur into the area from around the state will 1 tdy for an outdoor cocktail party. ,4F "In past years, we haven't had any real drinl ison face sophi I PEP TALK 55 By Tracy Mixson n reputation that has carried over to W&L his coaching career. H Before joining USC he resurrected two football programs, the first at the University of Tennessee ing at Chattanooga. Within three ms years, the coach brought the Moc>ck casins to .500, and a winning tradition was born. In 1980 Morrison moved on to or- the University of New Mexico to 7th aid the stumbling Lobos. After coni as secutive 4-7 seasons, the squad aid finished 10-1, the best mark in the school's history. guy at- THE 1982 New Mexico team was the ranked among the country's best in )ast scoring offense, total offense, J, a rushing offense and rushing be defense. Then Morrison came to USC, was facing the second toughest schedule :on- in the nation and not much time to the adjust the confused Gamecocks to like yet another coaching system, e're But he did it. The team went 5-6, ; no a respectable mark considering the fir/'iimcfanrpQ Oddsmakers will tell you the this Gamecocks will go 5-6 in 1984, bas)g is ed on Morrison's past secondson, season coaching records. But don't nfu- bet on it. ram >iliz- THE SCHEDULE is even tougher this year, but so is the iout backfield. Morrison said enthe thusiasm will be the difference, an ? a edge for USC. ns at the stadium," said Meek. le the stadium, the Alcoholic Beverage >1 Commission has withdrawn its so they can be used to enforce laws at d locations where alcoholic beverages d. Nicholas Sipe, executive director of ency, says local, state and university will still be enforcing the laws, and the wants those agencies to take up the eft by his agency's diminished numbers siauium. IN STREET is a primary road leading stadium, and store owners along the ;omplain their shops will probably lose ss because of the new legislation, n Psomas, owner of the Big Bird, said past most motorists using Main Street stop to purchase alcoholic beverages ir way to the stadium. adents have a lot of spirit and they stop eroeerv store or bv me and nick un beer," he said. "How can you expect ople not to open it from the grocery o the stadium? they enforce the law, there'll be a lot of : in jail, and business-wise, a lot of peoe going to be hurt. But if it's the law, ve to abide by it. By next year, we'll be 0 it. " P1JTY CHIEF Brendan Galvin of the nbia Police Department said the law 1 be enforced in the course of normal : control activities on game days. re're not going to devote any additional 'f?w> rv of n r\ r?irr?nmctonr?P ZtVlP uwti lu lliai vn vuiujiuiiw vi,lv container law)," he said. "Because of c problems, we devote manpower for c control." f arrests for the open-container law are a oduct, so be it. It's just another law that De enforced, like any other law. 'eople know it's the law. You can't ; in the car." imore jinx? "We don't have any sort of predictions; that's a guessing game," he said. "But, I think with the proper attitude, hustle and growing confidence, we'll be a bet ter football team this season." While many Gamecock fans are concerned Morrison may fall victim to a second-year slump, the coach himself probably hasn't even thought about it. Instead, USC's coach is only thinking about one goal: winning. Tracy Mfixson is the assistant sports editor of The Gamecock and is responsible for coordinating the newspaper's football coverage. Iragr mrt ~ jpg} ?ws Photo by Joe J?ck*on Joe Morrison No second-year slump J