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Hose Blanked By Lenoir Rhyne Hosts Wofford Saturday Afternoon In Homecoming ★★★ ★★★★ Presbyterian College’s Blue Hose play host to ajjchrival Wof ford Saturday afternoon in the an nual homecoming game. Kickoff time is 3 p.m. Both PC and Wofford come into the game looking for their first win. PC suffered a 45-0 loss to Lenoir Rhyne last Saturday night, the Hose’s worst defeat in Coach Cally Gault’s six years as PC head coach. It was the first time PC has been shut out in 18 games, dating back to the middle of the 1967 season. Wofford, meanwhile, was losing to Chattanooga last Sat urday, 28-23. In their only other outing, the Terriers lost to Le noir Rhyne 38-11. However, PC Coach Gault warns that Wofford has “its finest team in years." Lenoir Rhyne brought ade- vestating single wing attack to PC. The Bears scored in each quarter and packed 17 into the second and 14 into the third quarter. The Blue Hose had trouble gen erating an offensive attack. Ace Quarterback Allen McNeill played with a badly swollen thumb and had trouble handling the ball and with his passing, hitting only eight of 30 attempts. Lenoir Rhyne intercepted three passes and recovered three fumbles. Paced by the running of full back Phil Bradner and the pass catching of Johnny Jackson, the Blue Hose moved to Lenoir Rhyne’s one-yard line early in the fourth quarter but a fumble was recovered by the Bears to thwart PC’s most serious threat. PC Line Coach Billy Tiller says Wofford has a “big and strong” team. He said, “They don’t have the speed of Lenoir Rhyne but they’re probably the biggest and strongest team we’ll play. They have a big defensive tackle named Sid Allred who is a fine ball player. Their fullback, Cliff Boyd, also is a good one.” Tiller said the biggest problem in preparing to defense the Wof ford offense is in trying to stop the triple option play. He said, “Quantico used it some against us but they didn’t run it as much or as well as Wofford runs it.” In the triple option, the quar terback can hand the ball to a fullback blasting up the middle or he can pitch back to a trail ing back or he can keep the ball and run or pass it. “It’s hard to defense,” TiHo' saM PC again will be without the services of starting center Phil Shroyer who suffered a broken bone in his right thumb. Larry Tyler, the second center, missed last week’s Lenoir Rhyne game but is expected to be ready Sat urday. Otherwise, the Blue Hose are expected to be at fell strength for Wofford. Wofford lost their fine split end, Dooley Bizzell who was In jured in the Chattanooga game last week but his substitute, SUp Corn, came in and made some catches in the last quarter at Chattanooga. Corn is the son of Dorman High School Coach Wade Corn. * * * THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Oct. 2, 1969- 1 -C UNC Fans Hungry University of North Carolina football fans are so hungry for victory that they are seriously incluned to gobble up the goose before the golden eggs can be laid. Frustrated for more years than some of the current players have lived, the Tar Heel sup porters are pawing the turf in hopes that Bill Dooley is about to serve up a winner. There have been winners -- one of Jim Hickey’s teams even went to Jacksonville and won Carolina’s only bowl, victory -- but strictly speaking there hasn’t been a Tar Heel team which captured the imagination of the public since Charlie Justice, Art Weiner, Ken Powell, Hosea Rodgers, et al packed and quit drinking from the Olde Well at Chapel Hill. Now that Bill Dooley has admitted he can count a number of blue chip athletes on his football team the partisans are screaming Tor victory. I have heard a good many say it is high time Dooley pro duced a big winner. In this, I agree, but hasten to point out that the Tar Heel mentor has got to be at least one year away from the big blast. If you can be reasonable long enough, Tar Heel fans, remember that Dooley has only one full year of recruiting playing on this year’s varsity. His first year he didn’t get into th^£|&rcb for players until December, and that's like trying to get > date for the prom after the music has started. As it was, he picked up some good boys: Don McCauley and Tony Blanchard to name Just two. Then the next year he had a good season in the hinterlands, and these boys are now sophomores. Last year was another suc cessful hunt, but the product of this labor will be seen on the freshman team --no help to the varsity this season. Last year Paul Dietzel at South Carolina was in about the same shape. He managed to win well the last month of the season, but before that, except for the UNC game, the Gamecocks were game but miserable. This season, with another year’s experience and another boost from a great freshman year, and the Chickens are favorites in the league. Personally I’m convinced that when it all shakes down in two or three years, no one school is going to dominate the league. There are five with excellent programs now. Virginia is getting stronger, and we have hopes that Wake Forest and Maryland have found the answer at least sufficiently to be contenders. Dooley wiU win his share -- perhaps more than his ahare-- but brethren and sistren, this ain’t the time to start hollering at him. He needs this year to build up the team’s confidence, and if he wins half the games, he’ll be ahead of schedule. If he wins six, look out for a lightning flash. The message is: Don’t clamor too loudly for something that is still in the process of developing, and after all these dark, lean years of privation, don’t get buck fever and blow it Just when there is promise ahead. The light streaks are showing through at Kenan Stadium. After such a long race and frustrating wait, don’t let one more year throw you. Now it is time for all State, Duke and Clemson fans to attack me, so I bare my breast and await for epistles. JVs, Junior High Host Woodruff Teams Clinton High’s Junior Varsity suffered its first loss of the sea son last week in Union and tonight, Thursday, plays host to Woodruff. The JVs dropped a 7-0 de cision to Union last Thursday af ter winning the first two games of the season. The Clinton-Woodruff JV game will follow a match between Clin ton Junior High and Woodruff Junior High which starts at 6 p.m. The doubleheader will be play ed at Wilder Field at Clinton High. Against Union last week, the JVs threatened seriously three times during the first half but coulcto’t cash in on their oppor tunities. Fullback Jimmy Arm strong and tailback Gary Kuy kendall ran well for the Clinton JVs. Armstrong, a ninth grader, was playing his first game as a starter. Barry Saunders moved up to starting quarterback for the Clin ton JVs as Billy Young was moved ig) to the varsity. Young was moved to the varsity after quar terback Bob Grube suffered a knee injury in the York game and is expected to be out for the sea son. Clinton cornerback Gerald Davenport suffered a broken arm in Union and will miss the re mainder of the season. Union scored late in the third quarter on a 40-yard pass, the only pass they completed dur ing the game. Clinton linebacker JoeySpil- lers played one ofhis best games thus far and sparked Clinton’s defensive play which contained Union well except for the one long pass. Splllers intercepted one Union pass. * * * Early Ballast Tanks The forerunner of the mod ern ballast tank used to sub merge submarines was first proposed by an unknown English inventor in 1747. His proposal was to fill goatskin bags with water and attach them to the hull of the vessel. TURNING THE CORNER — PC Fullback Phil Bradner (46) turns the comer for a 20-yard gain against Lenoir Rhyne Saturday night. Rrad- ner’s run in the fourth quarter was PC’s longest gain rushing during the game. Other PC players shown in the background are tackle Frankie Bates (71), halfbjick Johnny Jack- son (26) and Quarterback Allen Mc Neill (1). Clintons Ed Pitts Named To All-Time USC Grid Squad Clinton native Ed Pitts has been named to the first team all-time University ofSouth Carolina foot ball squad. Pitts, an outstanding tackle in 1957-58-59 at South Carolina, was named to the first team in ballot ing by Gamecock Club members and other USC alumni. Over 9,000 ballots were cast in the vote. The late Steve Wadiak was named the outstanding all-time back at USC and Louis Sossa- mon, publisher of the Gaffney Ledger, was named the greatest USC lineman. Others on the all-time first team are ends J. R. Wilburn and Fred Zeigler; tackle Sam De Luca; guards Frank Mincevich and Jake Bodkin; quarterback Dan Reeves; halfback Earl Clary; and fullback Warren Muir. Zeigler and Muir are members of the current team. Only Sossa- ED PITTS mon and Clary, both of Gaffney, played prior to the 1950s. Contacted by The Chronicle, Pitts said of the honor, “I’m both surprised and well pleased.'’ Pitts was an "iitstandingtackle at Clinton High Schoo , play ing under Coach Punchy Thorn ton. He graduated from Clinton High in 1957 after playu g in the 1956 Shrine Bowl. At the University of South Carolina, he weighed 215 pounds as a sophomore, 225 as a jun ior and 230 as a senior. He was drafted by the Boston Pa triots but suffered a pre-sea son injury and never played a pro fessional football season. He is a son of Mrs. P. M. Pitts who is executive secretary of the Clinton Chamljer of Com merce. He is married to the for mer Ann Digby of Greer and they have an eight-month-ulddaugh- ter. Pitts is now director of the USC Gamecock Club, the athle tic fund raising organization for the university. Thornwell Invades SCSD BY MIKE SIMONS The Thornwell Saints will try to break a two game losing steak this Friday night as they journey out of town to take on the South Carolina School for the Deaf, which Thornwell coach Ben Crab tree says “has their best team in the last four years, and a club that has shown definite improve ment over last season’s squad." in the second quarter when Kana- da Roch scored from one yard out on a quarterback keeper. After the second Panther tally, Maynard Pierce hit Ji>dy Still on a 20 yard TD pass to knot the count again. McCormick scored the go-a head touchdown with 4:28 to go in the game, as Harper broke free for a 22 yard run. The kick for the p‘>int after made it 19- 12, with time left for a Thornwell drive. On the kick-1 iff, though, Turn my Wallin could not pick the ball up in time, and he was tackled in the end zone to give McCormick their 21-12 win. Red Devils To Visit Lower Richland Friday Clinton High’s Red Devils jour ney to Lower Richland Friday night, seeking their second win of the season. The Red Devils were upset 20- 14 last week by Chester and will carry a 1-2-1 record into the fracas with the tough Diamond Hornets. Lower Richland has a 3-1 record and is 3-0 in Eastern Conference play. Clinton High Coach Keith Richardson said, “Lower Rich land has a sound football. They aren’t especially big but they’re quick. They do have an outstand ing fullback named R <ibertson who weighs about 190 pounds and runs well off-tackle. They’re a good trapping team.” The Lower Richland quarter back, Don McNeill, is a brother to PC Quarterback Allen McNeill. ’’He’s a good quarterback,” Rich ardson siad. Lower Richland has a reputa tion for playing unorthodox foot ball but Coach Richardson com mented, “I think you’ll find that Lower Richland plays some pretty basic football until they get you whipped. Then they might try some of the unusual things. They’re a sound football squad.” Concerning the loss to Ches ter, Richardson said, “I thought that was one game we should have won. We played very well in the first half but they outplayed us in the second half. We actually grad ed out the best of any game this season in carrying out our as signments." He said that quarterback Don- ny White, Tailback Jack Hames and End Alex Rogers graded the highest among the regulars. On the specialty teams, Bill Alex ander scored 92 per cent on the kicking team, the highest any in dividual scored for the night. Clinton took the opening kick off and drove 60 yards for a touch down which White scored on a quarterback sneak with five minutes 30 seconds gone in the game. Big plays in the drive were a 15-yard run by Hames and a 15-yard pass from White to Ro gers. Buzzy Tedards kicked the ex tra point for a 7-0 Clinton lead. However, the lead was short lived as Chester’s Steve Cudd raced 45 yards to score andGene Robinson ran a two-point conver sion and Chester was ahead 8-7. On the next series of plays, White hit Tedards with a pass and Tedards raced in to score on a 58-yard play. Tedards kicked the extra point and Clinton led 14-8. To preserve the 14-8 lead by halftime, the Red Devils had to fight off a serious Chester threat The Cyclones drove to Clinton’s four where a crunching tackle by linebacker Lawrence Lee stopped Chester on the final play of the first half. Clinton’s offense bogged down in the second half as Chester came back to score in the third quarter for a 14-14 tie. Chester’s extra point attempt was blocked by End Matthew King. In the fourth quarter, a fumble and a poor Clinton punt put Ches ter in scoringposition at the Clin ton 24 and the Cyclone moved in to score the winning touchdown with four minutes 30 seconds re maining in the game. & Clinton Chester First Downs 6 10 Yards Rushing 106 169 Yards Passing 85 42 Passes Att. 9 8 Passes Comp. 3 4 Passes Intcp. 0 0 Punts 4 4 Punting Ave. 27 33 Penalized 5 0 Score by quarters: Chester---8 0 6 6—20 Clinton ---7 7 0 0—14 SURPRISE GAIN — Clinton Wing- so he took off down the sidelinee and back Buzzy Tedards (11) is finally gained 15 yards and a first down stopped on the sidelines after he before he was stopped. Racing along picked up a first down against Ches- with Tedards is Clinton Head Coach ter Friday night on a fourth down - Keith Richardson at right. Behind play. On fourth and two at midfield, Richardson is assistant coach Pres- Tedards dropped hack to punt. He ton Cox.— (Photo by Eddie McGee) wasn’t rushed by Chester, however, S.C.S.D. has lost to a school for the deaf in Alabama and to Ford High, a team that Thorn well defeated 22-20 in a thriller at the start of the season. Quarterback Calvin Brock leads the S.C.S.D. offense, and he has a really good arm, accord ing to Crabtree. They are a big team, with six or seven boys be ing over six feet and 200 pounds. ThornweU is now 2-2 in con ference play, as a result of a 21- 12 loss to undefeated McCormick last week. Even though TO Is playing a non-conference foe, they could move up a notch in the conference, as Lockhart and Jonesville are playing each other this weekend. Jonesville is one place ahead of Thornwell, with a 5-1 conference mark. McCormick recovered a Saint fumble on the eight yard line, and scored two plays later, as they recorded their fourth win of the year. Larnell Harper went in tor the TD, giving McCormick a 12-6 lead at the time, with 4:04 left in the third quarter. The Panthers scored first, as David Baggett ran for seven yards with 6:47 left in the opening period capping a 48 yard drive. Thornwell tied the score early * ’4$ GAMECOCK—Clinton’s Billy Freeman is the sec ond team tight end for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks. A sophomore, Freeman stands 6-2 and weighs 200 ponds. At Clinton High School, Freeman was captain of the Red Devils during his senior year and played in the Shrine Bowl game. Bell St. Upset; Hosts Wright High Bell Street High’s Wildcats suffered their first defeat of the season last Friday, losing 12-2 to Riverside at Saluda. Friday night, the Wildcats will try to get back on the winning track, playing host to Wright. The Wildcats will carry a 3-1 record into the game. Last Friday, Riverside scored twice in the first quarter and then spent the rest of the game fighting off Bell Street scoring threats. The Wildcats swept inside Ri verside’s five yard line four times but failed to score. Bell Street scored a safety in the third quarter, trapping a Riverside back in the end zone. Riverside scored in the first quarter on a 50-yard run and later tallied on a pass play. * * * Junior High Rallies To Tie Union 14-14 Down by two touchdowns, Clin ton Junior High’s Kid Devils roared back in the fourth quarter to tie Union Junior High 14-14 last Thursday in their season’s opener at Union. End Mike Wooten scored both Clinton touchdowns. He raced 40 yards on a punt return for the first score. He gathered in a pass from Quarterback Claude Crocker and raced 45 yards for the second TD.Wooten is an eighth grader from Joanna. Terry Heaton ran the extra point after the first Clinton score, making it 14-8, but the extra point failed after the second touchdown. Prior to the fourth quarter ex plosion, Clinton had three scoring chances but failed to cash in. Clinton moved to Union’s eight, 10 and 18 but didn’t score. A 50- yard run by Tim Mann, to Union’s five, was nullified by a hold ing penalty. Coach Bill Rhodes said that Wooten, Heaton and Doug Wessin- ger looked good on offense for the Kid Devils and Gene Pinson and Johnny Knox paced the defense. Tonight, the Kid Devils play host to Woodruff in a game to start at 6 p.m. The Junior High game will be followed by the Clinton-Woodruff JV game. * * * My Neighbors Out or town papers! I ^ Never heard of it