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By Tom Gatto
Some people say history has a tendency
to repeat itself, and in the case of this
year's Gator Bowl, they're partially right.
For the third time in the game's 38-year
series, USC will be a participant. Their
first appearance was in the inaugural
Gator classic in 1946. In that game, USC,
coached by Rex Enright, was upended by
Wake Forest, 26-14.
That's one part 01 nisiory Carolina
would like not to repeat, since the school
has never won a post-season game, going
0-5 in the process.
HERE'S A rundown of USC in the
bowls:
In 1969, the Gamecocks captured its
first and only Atlantic Coast Conference
titlf. with a rprnrd Cnach Paul Dietzel
had finally gotten the football program in
gear, it seemed, and a win in the Peach
Bowl that year would have capped things
off in grand style.
But such dreams were not to come true,
ac Wf??t Viroinia Mountaineers
pounded out a 14-3 victory.
The Gamecocks would not make the
post-season again until 1975, Jim Carlen's
first year as head coach, when they traveled
to Orlando, Fla., for the Tangerine
Bowl. Their opponent was Miami of
Ohio.
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IN THAT contest, USC fell, 20-7, making
it 3-for-3 in bowl losses. In 1979,
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but the result again was a negative one ?
Missouri 24, USC 14.
One season later, Carolina had the best
player in college football in tailback
George Rogers.
The Gamecocks repeated their win total
from 1979 (eight), and were rewarded
with another trip to Jacksonville for a
game with Pittsburgh, led by quarterback
Dan Marino and linebacker Hugh Green,
who finished second to Rogers in the
Heisman Trophy voting.
With a national TV audience watching,
the Panthers whipped the Gamecocks,
37-9. Rogers was never a factor, and
Green shut down USC's attack handily.
SO USC returns to the scene of past
failures ? with a new cast of characters
and a different antagonist in the torm of
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Jacksonville, while the show will be
presented by ABC-TV.
And USC fans hope Dec. 28 will not
turn out to be a repeat performance of
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Gator Bowl tickets sold for $2.50 in 1946.
Although that is one-eigth of this year's $20 pri
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members organized that debut of what has become tl
most financially lucrative bowl in the nation.
The bowl was to be called, appropriately enough, th
Club Bowl. A Chicago sportswriter jokingly referred
the Allaif?ator Bowl prior to the first game, and the sh
version has persisted since, Emery said.
The teams that played in the 1946 game split a
purse, and the Jacksonville merchants lost money on t!
USC and Oklahoma State University will each
$900,000 for appearing in the 40th annual Gator Bo
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the Gator Bowl itself has expanded to include abo?
weeks of events that culminate with the game.
This year's Gator Bowl program includes a 10,00
run, a college invitational golf tournament, a junior la
nis tournament and a regatta, Emery said.
Those fans who went to the first Gator Bowl had r
races, foot races, or golf tournaments, but the 1946 g;
its own Dlace in the record books. USC's Charlie Bre
tercepted a Wake Forest pass and ran it back 99 3
record return that still stands, according to Emery.
Besides that record, other incidents have added to tl
Bowl's uniqueness among college bowls, Emery said.
THE GATOR Bowl, like other bowls, is played one
except for 1954 when it was played twice. The ga
originally held on Jan. 1, 1954, in keeping with tradi
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played in December of 1954, Emery said.
According to the information director, the Gator
the only bowl fflat legendary Alabama coach Paul
Bryant never won, despite two appearances.
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