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Former walk-oi
ACHIM HUNT Staff Writer
Jason Lawson, a 6-2,221 pound junior
fullback from Union, S.C. has been
climbing the ladder of college football
success ever since he joined the Game- \
cocks as a walk-on before the 1993 sea- J
ann nndpr fnrmpr Carnlinn head rnnrVi
Sparky Woods.
As a member of both Woods' squad HHH.
and second-year coach Brad Scott, Lawson
has noticed a definite difference in
team atmosphere.
"Under Coach Woods the team did ^ter
display a slight family atmosphere, but ^ out f0
the team was somewhat divided into our freghm ar
different groups of friends," Lawson said. oug trajnj
"With Coach Scott the team is together, t^at wag
we are a true family with no divisions. Qamecocl
Coach Scott has emphasized that we
must display a family attitude and the QjjV(
team has been heading upwards ever Top-Cond
since he arrived with his Together We team a^e
Will'mentality." geagon
Lawson pointed out that he was re- Laws<
cruited out of Union High School by on- fejt about
ly the smaller in-state schools but he felt stated "il
that he, "could definitely walk-on at a me as 'a v
larger school and receive a scholarship ajj 0f
at a big college with an ambitious work Lawsc
ethic" scholarsh
Lawson shopped around at other gtaff were
schools, but his visit to Carolina sealed wor^
the deal. ?Jago
"I visited a lot of schools and I even ^ nm t
grew up as a Clemson fan, because of wa^ r
my family's roots at Clemson, but when jasj. gp^
I visited Carolina I was immediately im- y taje]
pressed with the facilities," Lawson said. ?w n
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l reu m love wnn me program overall Qar(
and decided Carolina was the place that wag pre;,,
I wanted to attend college."
Weathered NASC./
Associated Press ?
DARLINGTON, S.C. ? Dale Earnhardt's j<
won here nine times. Rusty Wallace never has. s
Jeff Gordon, Winston Cup's glamour boy, *
holds the qualifying record at Darlington International
Raceway, but hasn't come close to tak- t
ing a race. 8
Mark Martin says there's no big secret to the v
track. Kyle Petty wants it plowed back to the t
cow pasture it used to be. e
What makes Darlington one of the most
revered and reviled tracks on the NASCAR cir- I
cuit? 1
"It's probably a combination of the history ?
and the toughness of the track," said Cale Yaiborough,
a Hall of Fame driver who holds the record s
with five Southern 500 victories at the 1.366- f
mile track. ?
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would take this season on
My goal is not to be the sh
this season, but my goal is
each game one game at a 1
that then the awrds, wins,
game will follow."
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arriving ai v^arouru ana wy- ing ngni enas. r;
r the football team during his situation of stai
1 year, Lawson began a rigor- in and the entire
ing and conditioning schedule pressed. That is
above and beyond what the Jason was one o
is coaches expected. His train- our offense, and
te so impressed strength coach the scholarship
jr that he named Lawson the Lawson ren
litioned Athlete on the footbal1 East Carolina ge
;r the successful 1964 football to and has vivid
"During th<
m conveyed the honor that he Boomer (Foster)
receiving the award when he both went down
t was a tremendous honor for forced to play tl
iralk-on to win the award over the game," Lav
scholarship players." pass and thoug;
>n however became cine of those Then I was nar
ip players when Scott and his East Carolina g
impressed with Lawson's hard coming and I wi
"When I hea
n is a special young man. He ing crowd for the
Jock, and catch well, Scott said, numb and it we
aw talent when I first saw him for me. I steppee
g, but he has developed into a been coached t
ited guy. pressed the coacl
oticed him during the LS'J and to say that may!
olina games last year when he snip."
sed into a starting role due to This yea:*, b
ea that knocked out our start- nay pracii.v-.-. is SR
drivers learn t
lundays Southern 500, the last of the four maor
Winston Cup races this season. Unlike most
uperspeedways, turns one and two at Darlingon
are much different than three and four.
"You've got to decide which turns you want
o set your car up for because you can't do both,"
aid driver Lany Pearson, whose father, David,
vas the most successful racer with 10 wins at
he track. "You'll find yourself in big trouble othirwise."
When Harold Brasington wanted to bring an
ndianapolis-sized track to South Carolina in
.949, he didn't know he'd have drivers praising
ind cursing his layout.
Brasington, who had a background in contraction,
was so anxious to build, he drew up
ew blueprints. When the course looked like it
vould encroach on a favorite fish pond, Brasngton
pushed out the backstretch to give Darington
its unique bubble effect.
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Gamecock KjdiJm^l Wednesday, Auj
ict in backfield
e team is that we nounced that Jason had b
game at a time. a/">*?" ?Marship. u?
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irter every game camp depth chart released
; to do my best Lawson was named the
time and if I do back ahead of Re^e Ale
. that he has earned the sta
and the bowl ^ long preseason practice
son can finally look aheai
I nWQOn I LOT fllllhar.k nf aaaann a ooaonn fii
and team goals.
"My only goals for nr
[e responded well to the team is that we would tak
ter that he was placed one game at a time," Lai
i coaching staff was im- W2rt to concentrate on Geo:
i when we decided that then on Arkansas next w
f the 22 best players on each game one week at a 1
1 thus we awarded him jg not ^ be the starter foi
for this season. this season, but my goal is
iembers the LSU and u ?
ones that Scott referred ?ach game ?ne game at a
that , re'erred do that then the awards, i
memories of each. , , , ,, ?
, t OTT bowl game will follow,
e rainy game at LSU ? . , ... . ,
and James (Cummings) Of his battle for the sta
with injuries and I was with Alexander, Lawson w
le entire second half of mat,c- T?We and me are
irson said. "I caught a and we P"11 for other
ht I played really well, practice. There is not so ir
aed the starter for the as there is a friendship 1
;ame which was home- Lawson in his three yc
is very nervous. cocks football has gone fi
ird *2001' and the roar- on with no playing time t<
i first time my body was fullback on a football tea
is very emotional time contend for a bowl win a
1 up and did what I had Florida and Tennessee for 1
o do and I guess I im- ern Division title,
hes enough for the them Jason certainly will cor
be 1 deserved a scholar ],ard off the playing field
prove his nerformance oi
cfore the start of two a and? in hja 0.,vn -A.ora?
slter, Scott formally an- ?^^ _
o revere, revile D;
Earnhardt, Martin and Bill Elliott have been \
the best at navigating Darlington the past 15
years. Eight of Earnhardt's nine victories here 1
have come since 1986 and he has won two of the (
past three TranSouth spring races there. t
"Darlington has an invisible hand that'll slap 1
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lap of a race," Earnhardt said. Thafs why every- 1
one wants to win Darlington." i
Earnhardt says he took to the track's challenge
early on. His 1982 win in the Rebel 500 ]
ended a season-long drought during which he I
slipped from 1980 Winston Cup champion to no 1
victories in 1981. i
Elliott's Southern 500 win in 1985 earned <
him the Winston Million bonus for taking three 1
of the Winston Cup's four major races ? at Daytona,
Talladega and Darlington. ]
He has added four more victories at Dar- i
lington, including last year's Southern 500, which <
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People keep wanting to paint this place with a
jig mysterious cloud," Martin said. "But there's i
10 magic secret. It's just a good, solid track."
Darlington slapped a lot of drivers around in i
March as Sterling Marlin won a crash-filled Tran- g
South 400. There were 15 caution flags over 87 I
laps as cars skidded and swerved on the newly
repaved track. One accident took out Winston I
Hup points leader Gordon, who led for 155 of the c
first 199 laps. t
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nph in the spring race, said egos around Win- )
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"That's something I want to take care of," he
aid. "I believe it as much as anyone else. Actutlly,
I feel like I should already have a win at
)arhngton.
Then there's Petty, son of Richard Petty, who
loesn't even know why he bothers to show up.
We just don't do well here'and I can never figire
out why," he said.
The coat of blacktop, the track's first repaving
n 15 years, makes things slicker and more dangerous
than ever, Darlington president Jim
iunter said.
And as a reminder to the drivers that this is
Arlington, Hunter said he chose not to paint
>ver the numerous black blotches left on the reaming
wall five months ago.
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rou if you're not'careful," he said.
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