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This Week in USC History \ Jan. 23, 1985 — Former Egyptian first lady Jihan Sadat began teaching a three-credit course, “Women in Egyptian Culture." - * v Special to The Gamecock At top right, an injured football player is comforted by his paramour. This image, which first appeared in the 1903 Garnet & Black, shows his struggle makes him worthy of adoration. The next graphic, middle right, depicts a defensive player eagerly stomping an offensive foe in a 1910 Garnet & Black. At lower right, a Carolina athlete is being worshipped by a diminutive collegian and a naked woman. It appeared in a 1910 Garnet & Black and suggests that by that time, athletics ruled the roost at USC. i_ii_ii_lasm,_i i rOOTBALu ■d South Carolina Football wsMEW./owunrwaE A OF WE AGES. VS (WE WC CUR w»B' KsnuntsKi MRAKDVCE . ViE MWtUCP / OUR EWCAHONH. PJRSWT5 / TO IMKH fiSB TRUTH. i > _WE 5ACHIOJOURFAUOI liFOERS TO SATISFY TOUR (CEDE. WE WCRWYOIAU. YEAR ANP.MMIKHOLY HMIKS.WE DEVOTE OUR WEEKENDS TO YOU. Vft&WHUIHSTO PtAAfit AMP aCRTT WUR 3Wt... BUT STU.WE IXK RUH1MENT —M mini 111 HIM | | I Special to The Gamecock This Robert Ariail cartoon appeared in "How ‘Bout Them Gamecocks!,” William Price Fox and Franklin Ashley's tribute to Carolina football. The cartoon is part of the exhibit at the Museum of Education. by Erin O’Neal The Gamecock On Cliristmas Eve of 1892, USC played its first intercollegiate football game. That year al so marks the beginning of what education grad uate students Geoige Lang, Jacob McCormick and Marcus Rozier call “The Formulative Years” of South Carolina football. Lang, McComiick and Rozier have creat ed an exhibit in the Museum of Education that surveys South Carolina football from 1892 to 1910. The exhibit includes student comments and pictures from the Garnet & Black during the turn of the century, a modem image of the Gamecock and a recording of Carolina’s fight song. “Football was the first intercollegiate sport [at USC] if you disregard fencing,” McCormick said. “Intramural games were played where the Thomas Cooper Library is.” The rules of intramural football were dif ferent then. For example, touchdowns were on ly worth four points, and extra points were worth two. “The rules weren’t universalized, so each college played differently,” McCormick said. Colleges would play according to rules set by universities such as Harvard and Yale, which started some of the first intercollegiate football teams. “They would get together be fore a game and decide, ‘OK, we’re going to play by Harvard rules.’ Or, ‘We’re going to play by Yale rules,’” McCormick said. The teams didn’t always have only student players, either. “Most of the players were from the stu dent body, but sometimes coaches and faculty would play. The freshman class played the sophomore class, the sophomore class played the junior class, and so on,” McCormick said. In 1906, because of national concerns about the violence of contact sports, football was banned at USC. Alumni and students united in protest, and the sport was reinstated for three games at the end of the season in 1907. That year, USC had its only undefeated season, beat ing the College of Charleston, the Medical Col lege of Georgia and the Citadel. During that time, the university attempt ed to develop well-rounded people, not just academically successful students. “They were building not only brain, but also body and spirit... to develop a renaissance man, if you will,” McCormick said. The exhibit took two years of research, looking through The State newspaper and Gar net & Black publications from that period. “All I really hope for is if anyone has any interest in football, that they’ll get something out of it,” McCormick said. Through the artwork Lang, McCormick and Rozier have chosen to display, one can al so see the difference in the people who lived at the turn of the century, including what they looked like and the clothes they wore. But according to McCormick, that’s a prime rea son why students should visit the exhibit. “That’s what history is; it’s introducing yourself to these people and allowing them to live, through you, into the next century.” The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotlight@hotmail.cotn Golden Globes Gladiator wins best drama, Almost Famous best comedy by Anthony Breznican Associated Press BEVERLY HILLS, Calif — The Roman arena epic Gladiator was named best dramatic motion picture at Sunday’s Golden Globes, while Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe’s fictionalized story about his experiences as a teenage rock journalist in the 1970s, won best comedy film. Julia Roberts won as best dramatic movie ac tress for Erin Brockovich, and Tom Hanks won as best dramatic actor for Cast Away. No one film dominated the night’s awards. Gladiator, a bloody re-creation of ancient bat tles in Rome’s Colosseum, came away with two, including one for music. Almost Famous, Traffic and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon also won two each. So if the Gold en Globes hold true as an indicator of how the Academy Awards will go in March, the field is wide open. “For a few anxious minutes, I didn’t think I’d get to take this baby home,” Gladiator di rector Ridley Scott said after the final presenta tion. Globes seepages ^_:-i-'JT--I Betty Cobb/College Press Exchange Robert Downey Jr. and Calista Flockhart of Ally McBeal attended the Golden Globes together. Carolina Football ! Fact Sheet i South Carolina played and lost its first football * game, a 0-44 thumping by in-state rival ’ Furman, on Christmas Eye 1892 in Charleston. 1 The faculty, which! supervised athletic activity [ ** on campus, authorized the establishment of an official football team in 1894. * j ? ■ v , t . y**S * Carolines first yietory sy^S a 14%J0 contest | over phrman on N«|v- 8, 1^95, in Colombia. South CarolinaL.plamTpnd won its fi||t game 1 against in-state rival Clemson 12-6 on Nov. 12, f 1896, in Columb ■ i '■ \ & 1 The G definitively I associate .11 during the I 1902 se; -only NCAA ■ ’ Divisit use the J “Fighting (7^ In 19807 ailback George | v‘® “iffkL mf use i football playel the Heisman I Trophy. ; (~\ Carolina recorded its rtrst Powt victory on Jan. , 2, 1995, in Miami, Fla., a 24-21 win over West | Virginia in the Carquest Bowl. | I Over a two-year span from 1998 (1-10) to I ® 1999 (0-11), South Carolina accrued a 21-game 1 losing streak. In 2000, the Gamecocks achieved an 8-4 | ^ regular season record and earned a trip to the | Outback Bowl, beating Ohio State 24-7 on Jan. I 1 in Tampa, Fla. Ann Marie Miani/The Gamecock* __J Cyrano comes to Koger by Amanda Silva The Gamecock Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand’s comi cal, romantic story set in 17th-century France will open Wednesday, Jan. 24 at the Roger Center, per formed by the Aquila Theater Company as a part of its 2000-2001 North American Tour. “The classics made relevant with superb acting and clever staging,” said the New Yorker in critiquing the work of the Aquila company’s version of the play. Cyrano de Bergerac tells the story of Cyrano, a character based on a historical, swashbuckling hero, whose famously huge nose discourages him from win ning the love of the beautiful Roxanne. Bergerac acts the part of the arrogant soldier, nev er once cowering in shame because of his appear ance. When insulted by an unruly soldier about his de formity, he said, “a large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.” Bergerac befriends Christian de Neuvillette, a handsome soldier who is also in love with Roxanne. Through the soldier, Bergerac vicariously woos Roxanne, composing elegant love letters while teach ing Neuvillette the art of romance. While pouring out his true feelings for Rox anne under the guise of helping Christian, Cyrano’s adventure unfurls along the streets of Paris, the bat tlefields of Arras and to the stifling walls of a con vent where the play ends. First staged in 1897 at the Theater de la Porte St. Martin, the play immediately established Edmond Rostand as a prominent dramatist, causing Cyrano de Bergerac to become one of the most famous Bergerac seepages What’s Happening Wednesday, Jan. 24 Elbow Room: Emma Gibbs Band w/ Dave Blackman from Widespread Panic New Brookland Tamm: Swearing at Motorists Village Idiot: Joel Rush Art Ban DJ Fuzz from Charlotte Jillian’s: Lance Williams Thursday, Jan. 25 Elbow Room: Death to Van Gogh's Ear w/ Brother Mills Band New Brookland Tavern: Punk Show w/ the Sinators; Burns Out Bright; Hurt Reynolds and The Frownies Pavlov’s: Rev Seven In The News ■ Couple sues Ted Nugent for fraud, breach of contract LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) —A cou ple is suing Ted Nugent for allegedly reneging on a deal in which they paid for dinner with the rock star and front row seats at one of his concerts. ’ Ron and Krishelle Bennett of Lin coln, Neb., said they paid $1,535 dur ing an eBay Internet auction for unre stricted backstage passes to Nugent’s Aug. 25 concert at Sandstone Am phitheatre in Bonner Springs, Kan. They also were promised front-row concert seats and dinner with Nugent. The Bennetts claim in a lawsuit filed Monday in Lancaster County Court that they received limited-ac cess backstage passes and that Nugent didn’t join them for dinner. “This guy was my hero,” said Ron Bennett, 35, a student and part-time bartender. “I was thrilled to see him, and he basically destroyed my entire belief in rock ‘n’ roll.” The Bennetts are asking for un specified damages for fraud and a breach of contract. Nugent did not return two mes sages left at his office. ■ Christian school bans Harry Potter BRISBANE, Australia (AP) A Christian school has banned the popular Harry Potter children’s books from its library, saying they’re violent and dangerous. Dr. Chas Gullo of the Christian Outreach College, a private school in Queensland state, said he read one chapter from the latest story about a young magician, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and was exposed to four murders. “It was pretty gory,” Gullo was quoted as saying by Brisbane’s Couri er-Mail newspaper. Some parents’ groups and acade mics on Tuesday criticized the school’s decision, saying the books by J. K. Rowling are fantasy and pose no threat. University of the Sunshine Coast popular culture expert Dr. Karen Brooks said the books encour age children to read and use their imaginations. “I think that in this day and age there’s a huge spiritual dearth in our lives,” she told ABC radio. ■ uepuucs sue producers of When Cops Attack LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two sheriff’s deputies, who claim the videos “When Cops Attack” and “Bad Cops” falsely portray them as brutal, have filed suit seeking more than $500,000. R. Christopher Bowman and Richard English claim producers Simi tar Entertainment, Reality Entertain ment Direct and Real Life Productions caused them embarrassment and hu miliation. Their Superior Court suit al so asks that the court enjoin the defen dants from distributing the video using their picture on the cover. The videos show the deputies in a 1995 pursuit in which their patrol car collides with a suspect’s vehicle, ac cording to the lawsuit. When the sus pect tried to run, a “physical alterca tion occurred,” the suit says, adding that the deputies’ use of force “was reasonable ai*J necessary to apprehend ... the suspect.”