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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C-, Septi 3, 1970—7-A
BILL CURRIE
Mouth
of the South
Needed: A Hero
In recent years a whole gobful of considera
tion has been given in an effort to determine
means by whicfr football in the Atlantic Coast
Conference might be upgraded. Cited ad nau-
seum has been the high academic requirements
of the various member schools, and the demand
for a 800 on the College Board Test required by
the conference for an athletic grant-in-aid
Doubtless many of the proposals to lower require
ments or increase the number of athletes would
be helpful. But if the conference wants to fill
the stadiums the best and most effective way is
to secure or develop an All-America back.
Not a defensive back, nor one who special
izes in blocking. What is needed is a flashy, col
orful, crowd pleasing, imagination stirring guy
who can lead a team to victory. There are some
good backs in the league like Don McCauley at
North Carolina, Leo Hart at Duke or Ray Yauger
at Clemson to name just three. But for all their
ability, and it is considerable, these fellows are
not the needed quantity.
The conference needs a guy who can compete
for the Heisman trophy. It needs a man who can
electrify a crowd, who is a hero to kids, and who
has a boyish cleanliness about him. Certainly I
am not a hymn-singer or a blue nose, and I sel
dom crusade for ice cream over bourbon. But the
fact remains that however jaded and cynical
American society seems, it will respond to the
challenge of the kind of fellow I’m talking about.
Or at least to a fellow who SEEMS to be that
way.
First though, he has to be a top athlete. A
great guard or tackle or even an end won’t do.
He’s got to be a back; a guy who runs and passes
and catcher passes. All-America teams are built
around the offensive backs. Once these plums
are landed, the rest of the team is built up in a
sort of geographic sharing plan. It may not be
fair, but it. is a fact. Look back over the years
at the Heisman trophy winners and see how
many guards, tackles and centers have won- Look
at professional football and see who gets the
most money. The ACC needs a stomp down good
offensive back—or even better, several of them.
. Ace Parfcet, Herc.«as a guy who.
playedthe tflirtles, ‘anti ^et when one runs a
memory lane pattern on Duke football he comes
up first and foremost with Ace’s name. Why do
you think this is. Well, he was a break-away
runner without peer, and what’s more he kept
North Carolina out of the 1935 Rose Bowl game
with a sterling performance including a 103-yard
touchdown gallop with the opening kickoff. When
Ace Parker was performing at Duke (now Wal
lace Wade) Stadium it was full and those were
days when $2.50 for a ticket was big money, and
there was not near the population to draw from
which we have today. If Duke could produce an
other Ace Parker, the Blue Devil athletic coffers
would overflow with goodies and gold.
Think, if you will, of Charlie Justice He
played at North Carolina on a team studded with
tremendous athletes. Art Weiner, an All-Ameri
ca end if one ever drew fcreath; Kenny Powell,
another. Irv Holdash at center. There were so
many stars the sportswriters had problems dis
playing their ignorance. But without Justice,
the blue chipper, there would have been just an
other football team instead of the wondrous ag
gregation which drew 44,000 into Kenan Stadium.
Hopefully, the point has been made. And
even more hopefully, there is on some campus,
, perhaps two or three, an unborn star whose abil
ity, personal traits, and good fortune will spring
him forth as a real glittering star. That’s what
the ACC needs more than any revision of its
rules
Winter Bowling Season Opens
The Winter bowling season
of the Laurens County Dowling
Associaticn got underway
Tuesday night September 1 at
Palmetto Lanes. The textile
league opened the winter sea
son with twelve teams. This is
two more teams than was in the
league last winter. The officers
of the league are Bud Fuller,
president; Wallace Patterson,
vice president and Clark Mea
dors, secretary.
New CHS
League
Opens
BY FLETCHER W. FERGUSON
Eight schools from three dif
ferent classes in prior seasons
come together in 1970 to form
the new Class AAA, Confer
ence HI in the reorganized So
uth Carolina High School Lea
gue athletic program. They all
start anew from scratch and
anything they do will constit
ute new records.
From last year’s SCHSL
Class AAA grouping are Bel
ton-Honea Path, Clinton and
Palmetto, the teams with whom
the odds-makers are going a-
long, and Wests ide of Anderson
from the former SCSSAA.
Abbeville, Laurens and
Woodmont move up from the
former Class AA WEBACH,
and McCormick from Class A.
An interesting note is the
four of the original members
of the WEBACH long an odity
among South Carolina confer
ence names - are back togeth
er - Abbeville, Woodmont and
Belton and Honea Path, before
the two schools were merged.
The other two originals,
Ware Shoals and Crescent, re
main in Class AA, Conference
L The only head football Coach
from among the initial WE
BACH mentors still on hand
is Norman (Sonny) King ofBel-
ton-Honea Path, who then dir
ected the Honea Path grid-
ders.
Belton-Honea Path and Clin
ton, both of whom are fortified
with returnees from ‘69, appear
at the outset as “the teams to
beat" despite identical 4 6-1
marks of the past campaign.
Palmetto, though it lost heavily
by graduation cannot be under
estimated as momentum from a
9-2, record could make it a
serious contender.
The only defending state
champion among the group is
Coach William Roberts’ West-
side, winner of its last 30 games
land holder of three straight
Class AAA grid crowns in the
former SCSSAA. Roberts, how
ever, lost heavily through grad
uation and retoning, and says
‘We are Just going to play it by
ear.”
Aside from Westside, the
only other m-AAA member to
gain a berth in last season’s
Palmetto State play-offs was
McCormick which won its con
ference and quarterfinal play
off game before losing to event
ual State Class A titlistWiUis-
ton-Elko in the semifinal round.
Abbeville, Laurens and
Woodmont, along withMc-Cor-
mick andWestside,arein“Wait
and See* situations marked by
some graduation losses and
school consolidation programs.
For Laurens, it will be ‘ moving
back, into AAA, the Tigers of
Ray Spoon having been in that
category prior to a two year
stint-during which it took the
1968 football crown - in the
WEBACH.
For what they may be worth,
here are the overall team re
cords for 1969;
The Industrial League will
start Thursday night, Septem
ber 3 at 7:00 p.m. There is
still room for teams in this
league and anyone wanting to
bowl in this, league should be
there.
There will also be a Men's
League bowling Friday morn
ing and a Mixed League for
Friday nights. The Ladies Lea
gue will bowl Monday nights
and Wectaesday mornings.
11-0-0
11-1-0
9-2-0
7-3-0
5-5-0
4-6-1
4-6-1
3-7-0
is this week’s
Westside
McCormick
Palmetto
Laurens
Abbeville
Belton-HP
Clinton
Woodmont
Following
schedule
THURSDAY
Woodmont at Dacusville
FRIDAY
Abbeville at Wrenn
Greer at Beltoo-HP
Clinton at Woodruff
Whitmire at Laurens
Westside at McCormick
Carolina at Palmetto
Thornwell Opens
At Ford Tonight
CHS CAPTAINS — Otis Patterson,
left, was elected C aptain of the Clin
ton High School football team last
week and Monty Crisp, right, was
elected co-captain. Both are seniors.
Patterson is a tackle and Crisp is a
guard.— (Photo by Eddie McGee)
In Season Opener
Devils Visit Woodruff Friday
Clinton High School’s Red
Devils open their 1970 varsity
football schedule Friday night
with a trip to Woodruff. The
season-opener kickoff is sche
duled for 8 p.m.
The Red Devils will be tang
ling with a veteran Woodruff
team which has championship
ambitions this season. The
Wolverines, noted for size as
well as talent in recent years,
have one oftheir largest squads
both in numbers and in phy
sical size.
The Wolverines list 67 play
ers on their varsity roster
and that includes 22 lettermen
back from last year’s team
which nipped Clinton 16-15 in
the final game of the season.
The Woodruff roster lists
ten tackles above 200 pounds
in weight and four of those
weigh 260 pounds or better.
Clinton Coach Keith Richard
son, an assistant coach at
Woodruff for several years
prior to becoming head coach
at Clinton last year, said,
“Woodruff has good experience.
They have two good quarter
backs, a fine running back -
good-blocking fullbacks and a
back named Wooten who is fast
as ‘greased lightning.'
Concerning his own Red De
vils, Coach Richardson said,
“We've been right pleased with
our progress thus far. We make
a lot of mistakes but enthus
iasm has been good. We lack
experience and speed. Also,
depth is a problem.'
The largest player in Coach
Richardson’s tentative starting
lineup is junior center Lewis
Henderson who weighs 225
pounds. Other bulwarks in the
middle of the line are defen
sive tackle Charles Norman, a
200 pound sophomore, and Cap
tain Otis Patterson, a 190 -
pound senior, who will start
on both offense and defense.
Coach Richardson’s tenta
tive starting offensive lineup
includes;
Ends, Sandy Saunders and
Scott Hammett, both juniors;
tackles, Otis Patterson, senior
and Charles Norman/sopho
more; guards, Kevin Long,
sophomore, and Monty Crisp,
senior; center, Lewis Hender
son, junior; quarterback, Den
nis White, senior; Fullback,
Lawrence Jones, junior; tail
back, Jack Hames, junior;
wingback, Bill Young, junior.
The defensive lineup in
cludes:
Ends, Saunders and Everett
Fuller, a junior; tackles,Pat
terson and Norman; middle
guard Long; linebackers, Steve
Rhodes, junior, and Ray Low-
man, senior;cornerbacks, Jack
Hames and David Mangum, jun
iors; safetys, White and Young.
Dove Season
Opens Saturday
The opening of the dove sea
son in South Carolina in a way
signals the end of summer and
the beginning of fall. If one
looks only at the thermometer
this statement may be quest
ioned but certainly in the minds
of the state’s many hunters the
early part of September is the
beginning of another season.
Campbell Has
bee Surgery
Gary Campbell of Clinton
underwent knee surgery Mon-
<fey and is expected to be out
of action for the remainder of
the University of South Carolina
football season.
Campbell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. Ed Campbell of Clin
ton, was a member of the de
fensive backfleld on the second
team at the time of his opera
tion.
This was the second oper
ation on the same knee for
Campbell who is a junior at
use.
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Smokey Says:
Thornwell High School will
open their football season
against Ford High School in
Laurens tbnight, September
3.
Coach Ben Crabtree is cau
tiously optimistic about the
prospects for his Saints this
season. He admits that his
team may have some depth
problems, but he is looking for
last season’s reserves to carry
much of the load.
Thornwell will be in a con
ference with two or three
schools who will have strong
teams, according to Coach
Crabtree. He rates opening
game foe Ford as the strongest
team with Lockhart and Jones-
ville strong seconds.
Frank Bruyer, a defensive
starter at tackle last season,
will be the fullback on this
year's team. Joe Adams, also
a senior tackle, will be backing
the line on defense for the
Saints this year.
Jody Still, a junior, will be
the split end in the Saints’pro
type offense and, because of his
speed, will be a safety in the
defensive secondary. Fresh
man Ray Bee will be the tight
end and will be a linebacker on
defense.
In the backfleld, Junior quar
terback Kanada Roach has been
shifted to tailback to replace
Maynard Pearce, the Saints’
leading offensive threat last
season who graduated. Roach’s
replacement will be Don Lund-
koskl, a freshman transfer stu
dent from Anderson with a very
strong throwing arm. Bill
Cheatham, a junior, is the re
serve quarterback.
Only five starters or return
ing from last season’s team that
compiled a 4-4 won-lost re
cord Crabtree is particularly
impressed with the per
formance of Sam Scarborough,
his flanker. He said thatScar-
borough has good hands and
should be of great help as a
wide receiver.
Senior David McCarter, the
offensive center, will be a
tackle on defense.
The remainder of the sch
edule is: Sept. 11 at Hickory
Tavern (A); Sept 17 Laurens
(B); Sept. 25 Lockhart; Oct 2
South Carolina School for the
Deaf; Oct. 9 Calhoun Falls;
Oct. 16 Jonesville; Oct 23 at
Spartanburg Day School; Oct.
30 at Ninety Six; Nov. 6 at
Dacusville (A) -tentative.
This year the season opens
on September 5 at 12 noon.
Each day the legal shooting
hours are from 12 noon until
sunset.
The 1970-71 season for this
popular migratory game bird
has been divided into two per
iods. The first extends from
September 5 through October
3. The second season opens on
November 23 and closes on
January 2, 1971.
The daily bag limit remains
the same as it was last year,
18 birds per day, with a pos
session limit of 36 after the
first day.
Guns used for the hunting
of doves are limited to three
shells in all repeating guns
and no larger than 10 gage may
be used.
Hunters hunting doves are
not required to have the fed
eral stamp which is required
for every migratory waterfowl
hunter.
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Waterfowl
Seasons
Are Set
At the regular monthly meet
ing of the South Carolina Wild
life Resources Commission,
the seasons for the taking of
ducks and geese were select
ed. These dates and bag limits
fall within the framework and
options offered to the various
states by the U. S. Bureau of
Sport Fisheries and Wildlife.
The open season for the tak
ing of ducks will commence at
one-half hour before sunrise
on December 2 and continue for
fifty consecutive days until sun
set on January 20. The bag limit
for ducks will be four daily and
eight in possession after the
opening day. Within this bag
limit the daily limit shall not
include more than two black
ducks, two wood docks and one
canvass back or one redhead.
The possession limit shall be
not greater than four black
ducks, four wood ducks and one
canvass back or one redhead.
In addition to the bag limits
stated above, waterfowl hunt
ers in South Carolina may take
in addition to the regular daily
bag two bonus blue-winged teal
daily and have four in poss
ession during the first nine
days of the season. These bonus
blue-winged teal may be taken
from December 2 through Dec
ember 10.
The goose season in South
Carolina will be fifty days in
length and coincides with the
duck season, opening on Dec
ember 2 and closing on Janu
ary 20. The daily bag limit
shall be one goose and the pos
session limit after the first day
is two.
Waterfowl hunters are re
minded that legal day com
mences one-half hour before
sunrise and closes each day at
sunset
The federal migratory bird
stamp is required for every
waterfowl hunter, over 16 years
of age. in addition to the re
gular state hunting license.
Blue Hose Drill
Twice A Day
“This is the most practice
time we’ve had since I’ve been
coaching at PC,' Presbyterian
College Head Football Coach
Cally Gault commented this
weelL
The Blue Hose opened prac
tice last week with two-a-day
sessions which conclude next
week with the opening of the
new semester.
PC opens with Furman in
Greenville on September 19.
Coach Gault has been pleased
with the showing of the Blue
Hose thus far. PC still has
comparatively young team but
the squad features more ex
perience than last year when
the Hose relied heavily on
freshmen.
Gault expects the Blue Hose
to be well-balanced offensively
with strong running from John
ny Jeselnik and Tam Milton,
complimenting the passing of
senior quarterback Allen Mc
Neill. Defensively, the team has
a strong secondary but the pro
blem spots are at three of the
front five positions in the line.
In Tuesday’s practice, Quar
terback McNeill was sharp in a
session which stressed pass
ing. Milton, Ken Lister, Lynn
Dreger and David Eckstein all
looked good on the receiving
end.
County Public Dove
Fields Are Announced
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Three dove fields in Laurens
County will be open to the
public when the dove season
opens in South Carolina on
September 5, the South Caro
lina Wildlife Resources depart
ment announced this week.
One field will be located on
the land of Billy DeShields,
just off Highway 92 in West
Lanford Station. This field will
be open on Saturdays. Another
field will be open on the farm
of Milton R. Howard, ten miles
wesf of Laurens on U. S. 76
near Hickory Tavern. It will
also be open on Saturdays. The
third dove field will be in the
Enoree Game Management
Area controlled by the U. S.
Forest Service. This field is
located three miles North of
Tip Top on Ridge Road and
will be open on Wednesdays
only.
Hunters who use these fields
in Laurens County or in the
rest ofSouth Carolina are urged
to use them with consideration
and recognize that abuse can
make them unavailable next
season. Litter should not be
left in the fields or along the
roads leading to the fields.
Hunters are urged to bring
lunch wrappers and beverage
containers and deposit them in
a suitable location.
The season will open cm Sept
ember 5, and the first half of
the season will close on Octo
ber 3. The second half of the
season will open November 23
and close January 2. The bag
limit is 18 per day, and shoot
ing bows are from 12 noon to
sunset.
Only man more unpopular
than an umpire is the jams-
and-jellies judge at the
county fair.
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