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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Oct. 22, 1970--5-A
BILL CURRIE
Mouth
of the South
Tor H««l Memories
The other night when the Carolina Cougars
were playing the Virginia Squires, it suddenly
struck me that I was watching a replay of some
of the greatest moments in Tar Heel basketball.
Five of the principals involved in the game were
products of Dean Smith’s singularly successful
program at Chapel Hill. Seeing the reaction of
the crowd to the former UNC players one real
izes anew how much Carolina basketball has
meant to the university and to the state at large.
Truly in past years all of North Carolina’s Big
Four have had more than a measure of success.
But there is a fan attachment for the Tar Heels
not enjoyed by the others.
In the game were Larry Brown, Doug Moe,
and Charlie Scott in Virginia uniforms, while
Larry Miller and Dick Grubar were warring for
the Cougars. Each of these guys is a special
sort of person to countless people who follow the
fortunes of the ball boys in baby blue. Grubar.
who has never played a regulation professional
game because he was hurt in his final college
days and re-injured early last season while with
the Indiana Pacers, got a whooping ovation when
he appeared late in the contest. When he handled
the ball the first time, girls swooned and cried
aloud. When he scored a basket . . . well, that
was the living end for a whole gaggle of teen
agers who shrieked their approval.
Larry Brown won the hearts of all the fans
when he was in college because even though he is
dwarfed by almost everyone else who plays bas
ketball he always battles with a ferocity becom
ing a much larger man. He is quicker now than
ever, passes better, and shoots it when it is pru
dent to do so. He makes the Squire offense work
just as he used to run the show at Chapel Hill.
A decade apart . . . almost . . . Moe and Scott
are very much alike in their approach to the
game. Each is a craftsman and goes into the
game with a dead-pan seriousness which com
mands respect more than screaming affection.
Moe is thirty-two years old and played as a col
legian under Frank McGuire. However, he is
JinteiUMJ’IdJlL to * 1At4M4ted in what Dean
Smith has done at UNC, and lends his weight to
the recruiting effort any time he can. Physi
cally he has the body of a nineteen-year-old kid.
This is the result of intensive training and never
letting down. Moe has cared for himself, and it
shows.
Charlie Scott is such a dazzling talent that
words fail when it comes time to appraise what
he does. Truly he is the complete ball player. He
does it all, not well, but with mind boggling ex
cellence. And his movements are so graceful and
rhythmic that the wild, yelling acclaim is often
absent; he simply strikes the fans dumb with
what he can do. Charlie should be the rookie of
the year in the ABA, and if I am not very much
surprised, he will surpass Pistol Pete.
Then there is Dick Grubar. He is a veritable
wonder of the world.
Whether Dick is a professional basketball
player remains to be seen, but he is without ques
tion the most popular athlete ever in Dixie.
People LOVE him! He is attractive in appear
ance, shy in demeanor, and his “raisin’,” shows.
When he was a Tar Heel the demand for his pic
tures was a major expense for the athletic pub
licity office. If he makes it as a Cougar, the
team will have a ready-made star gate attrac
tion.
Larry Miller is a walking miracle. Two lack
luster years in pro ball had, by the end of last
season, brought him to a paunchy stop. He was
soft, out of shape, had a less than enthusiastic
attitude, and his future was not promising. He
took hold of himself. He punished himself into
condition, and steeled his mental outlook. Re
sult: A great competitive player who is knock
ing on the starting lineup. He is now what he
was in college—the toughest scrapper I ever
saw. It must make Dean Smith feel pretty good.
It does me!
Thornwell Invades
Spartanburg Day
Bolstered by a 12-6 win over
JooesviUe last week, Thorn-
well’s Salats play at Spartan-
borg Day School Friday in the
first of three road trips which
will conclude the schedule.
Thornwell has a 3-4 overall
record and a 3-2 conference
mark going into the game a-
gainst independent Spartanburg
Day School. Thornwell has
completed its conference sche
dule and is in third place in the
standings.
The Saints had to come from
behind to defeat Jones ville. The
teams were tied 0-0 at half
time and Jonesville scored
In the third quarter for a 6-0
PC Visits
Guilford
LITTLE DAVID ROMPS—Presbyterian College’s
David Eckstein (40) rips through the Western
Carolina line for a big gain Saturday night. PC’s
No. 87 is Bill Caldwell and 71 is Frankie Bates.
(Yarborough Photo)
Red Devils Host Westside
CHS After
6th Win
Clinton High School’s Red
Devils will be shooting for their
first winning season in three
years Friday night when they
play host to Westside of And
erson. The kickoff is scheduled
for 8 p.m. at Wilder Field.
Westside brings a 1-4 con
ference record into the game
and is 1-6 overall.
The Red Devils’ record
dropped to 5-2 Friday night
with a hard-fought 13-0 loss to
undefeated Palmetto. Palmetto
moved Into undisputed pos
session of first place in the
Midwestern 3-A Conference
with the win. Palmetto now has
a 3-0 conference mark while
Clinton and Abbeville are tied
for second at 2-1 in conference
play.
Kanada Roach pulled the
Saints- into a 6-6 tie with a 30-
yard burst offtackle late in the
third quarter. In the fourth
quarter. Roach again broke off
tackle and romped 60 yards for
the winning touchdown.
Thornwell Coach Ben Crab
tree said, “Our boys played
their best defensive game.
Middle linebacker Ray Bee,
tackle Frank Bruyer and guard
Pete Belcher all played fine
defensive games.”
“Neutral Ground”
During the American Rev
olution, Westchester County,
N.Y., and especially the
Bronx, was known as “neu
tral ground” because it was
not consistently occupied by
either side and the sympa
thies of its inhabitants were
divided.
The loss to Palmetto was
particularly bitter for the Red
Devils since they forced more
scoring opportunities than did
Palmetto.
CHS Coach Keith Richard
son said, *We were very dis
appointed--not in the boys be
cause they gave a fine effort.
We were disappointed because
we cound’t get into the end zone
when we had the chances. I
thought we played particularly
well in the third quarter but
we made critical mistakes in
the faurth quarter.”
Concerning this week’s op
ponent, Westside, Coach Rich
ardson said, “They have a young
team, about like us, but they
haven’t jelled so far. They hava
an excellent young receiver who
is 6-3, 190 pounds and has
tremendous speed. Nobody’s
been able to cover him well
this season but they have
trouble getting the ball to him.”
A Clinton win over Westside
would assure the Red Devils
of a winning season. CHS teams
posted a 5-6-1 record last year
and 2-9 in 1968. The last win
ing record was La 1967 when
Clinton wound up 7-3-1.
A fumbled punt return prov
ed opened the scoring gate for
Palmetto. The Red Devils kept
the Mustangs in check for three
quarters but Palmetto recover
ed a CHS fumble on a punt re
turn on Clinton’s 37 in the
fourth quarter to set up their
first touchdown. Palmetto
quarterback Edward Crawford
sneaked over from the one for
the touchdown with 10:28 re
maining in the game.
The Red Devils refused to
quit, however. Billy Youngtook
the enusing kickoff and returned
it to Clinton’s 40. Palmetto was
penalized to the Mustang’s 42.
Clinton drove down to
Palmetto’s 30. On a second and
one situation, a pass fell in
complete and on third down,
Quarterback Donnie White was
thrown for a four-yard loss
after the center snap was fum
bled. On fourth down, White was
tackled back at the 50 and Pal
metto took over. The Mustangs
drove for their icing touch
down with four minutes remain
ing in the game.
Even so, the Red Devils
mounted another threat, mov
ing to Palmetto’s 35 before a
pass interception thwarted the
drive.
The Red Devils threatened
in the second quarter, driving
from their own 45 to Palmetto’s
20 where a fourth down pass
fell incomplete at the goal line.
The drive started when Jack
“I don’t see how in the world
anybody can score 32 points
against Lenoir Rhyne,” said
Presbyterian College Coach
Cally Gault in commenting on
Lenoir Rhyne’s 42-32 win over
Guilford last week.
Coach Gault’s PC Blue Hose
face Guilford Saturday after
noon and the Guilford passing
attack has him concerned. The
kickoff for the Carolinas Con
ference game at Guilford is
scheduled for 2 p.m.
Coach Gault said of Guilford,
“They have one of their better
teams in several years. They
have an extremely fine passing
attack. They Were in front of
Lenoir Rhyne 13-0 at one time
but couldn’t hold Lenoir
Rhyne.”
Guilford has defeated Gard-
ner-Webb and Elon while los
ing to Appalachian, C. W. Post
of Long Island, N. Y., and
Lenoir Rhyne.
The Blue Hose now have a
2-3 record after dropping a
28-21 heartbreaker to talent
ed Western Carolina last Sat
urday.
“I can’t fault the way our
boys played against Western
Coach Gault said, “We follow
ed our game plan as well as
you can expect. However, we
made a couple of mistakes and
it only takes one or two to beat
you when you’re playing a team
like Western. We were swapp
ing touchdowns but we didn’t
get ours when we had our last
opportunity.”
The Blue Hose led twice dur
ing the game. Tam Milton
scored the first on a one-yard
plunge In the first quarter and
Allen McNeill scored the
second on a quarterback roll
out from the four-yard line in
the second quarter. The Hose
were in front 14-7 at halftime
after Larry Easterwood picked
off a Western oass to snuff out
a Catamount threat late in the
second quarter.
Western tied the score at
14-all and PC came back to
tie it at 21-21 on a three-yard
run by Milton. Bobby Norris
set it up with a bruising tackle
which shook the ball loose and
PC’s Johnny Glymphrecovered
at Western’s eight.
Western moved into the lead
again when Paul Smith sprint
ed 50 yards for a touchdown.
PC drove to Western’s 17
with time running out. McNeill
sprinted to the eight and at
tempted to lateral to end BUI
Caldwell but Caldwell had turn
ed to throw a block. The ball
bounded free and was quickly
covered by Catamount and Jim
Dougherty, giving Western
Carolina the win.
Former PC star quarterback
Bob Waters, head coach of
Western, thusly earned his se
cond PC-Western game ball.
Waters was presented the game
ball when PC defeated Western
in 1966 while Waters was a
member of the PC coaching
staff. Last Saturday, he was
presented the game ball from
the other side of the field.
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PUNT RETURN — Clinton High’s
David Mangum (41) races for yard
age on a punt return Friday night
/against Palmetto. Mangum was Clin
ton’s leading rusher, picking up 76
yards from scrimmage in the 13-0
Red Devil loss.— (Photo by Eddie
McGee)
Midwestern Round-Up
By FLETCHER W. FERGUSON
LET'S MAKE A DEAL
Joe Holland And The Citizens
Of Laurens County
Vote November 3rd For Joe Holland
PLAYER OF WEEK—
Sophomore offensive
guard Kevin Long, a 175-
pounder, was named
‘Player of the Week’ for
his play in Clinton’s 13-0
loss to Palmetto last
week. Long graded 75 per
cent on carrying out his
assignments and made
no errors, according to
Coach Keith Richardson.
STATISTICS
CHS
PALMETTO
First Downs
10
9
Yards Rushing
119
136
Yards Passing
39
32
Total Yardage
158
168
Passes Att.
15
4
Passes Comp.
6
2
Passes Intcp. By
0
1
Punting
4-32.5
3-24
Fumbles Lost
1
0
Yds. Penalized
55
42
Score by quarters:
Clinton--0 0 0 0-- 0
PalmettoO 0 0 13---13
Hames put a crushing tackle
on the Palmetto punter who
tried to run for a first down.
Hames’ tackle stopped the run
ner short of the first down
and launched Clinton’s drive.
Late in the third quarter,
the Red Devils drove from
their own 30 to Palmetto’s
seven where a field goal at
tempt was ruled wide. Pacing
the drive were runs by White,
David Mangum, Lawrence
Jones and passes from White
to Young.
Last week’s co-leadcrs Pal
metto and Clinton bait'cd f<5r
38 scoreless minutes this past
Friday night at Williamstcn be-
foie Palmetto cashed : n on a
JVs Seek
6th Win
In Twin Bill
Clinton High’s junior varsity
football squad seeks its sixth
win of the season tonight, play
ing host to York’s JVs.
The Clinton-York JV game
will be the second game of a
football doubleheader which
will start at 6 p.m. with the
Bell Street Junior High Kid
Devils going against Whitmire
in the first game.
The Clinton JVs picked up
their fifth win against one loss
last week with a 27-0 triumph
over Palmetto.
End George Bodie scored
twice for Clinton and quarter
back Barry Saunders passed
for one TD and scored another.
Saunders scored Clinton’s
first touchdown in the second
quarter with a two-yard run.
Mac Young set it up with a
45-yard runJimmy Armstrong
kicked the first of three extra
points for the night.
In the second quarter, Jimmy
Brock broke offtackle and
galloped 55 yards to paydirt.
Clinton led 14-0 at halftime.
Saunders hit George Bodie
with a beautifully executed jump
pass for a third quarter touch
down. Saunders and Bodie hook
ed up on the scoring play on
fourth down from the 12-yard
line.
Bodie put the game out of
reach in the fourth quarter as
he intercepted a screen pass
and raced 60 yards to paydirt.
The extra point snap was hobbl
ed and the conversion failed but
Clinton had its 27-0 margin.
Tackle Gary Corley played a
strong game for Clinton on both
offense and defense. Bodie and
end Mike Wooten both showed
up well on defense.
Red Devil misplay and went on
to a 13-0 triumph ... It gave
Palmetto a 4-0 conference mark
end left it the sole Midwestern
member without at -least a
single family set-back . . . Ab
beville took a 13-0 win over
Laurens to move up to a second
place tie with Clinton, each with
3-1 conference records . . . Ab
beville will host Palmetto in |
this Friday’s top maten ... In
other games last week, Belton- ||
Honea Path topped Westside
19-7, and McCormick was a 22
•) winner at Woodmont . . . Here
are the team records going into
this weekend
Conf. All
C vnts Gam**
Palmetto
4-0
6-0-1
(linton
3-1
5-2-0
Abbeville
3-1
5-2-0
Laurens
3-2
4-3-0
Belton-HP
2-2
34-0
McCormick
24
34-0
Westside
14
1-6-0
Woodmont
04
1-64)
Palmetto leads team offense
and defense with respective to
tals of 166 and 14 . . In of
fensive scoring order, here are
the respective points lor the
order clubs: Laurens 130 and
55, Clinton 115 and 43, Abbe
ville 94 and 45, McCormick 08
and 93, Westside 65 and 116,
Belton-Honea Path 52 and 95,
and Woodmont 30 and 223
Individual scoring saw little
change in the leaders . . . Dav
enport is tops with 54, followed
by Shumate’s 42, Crawford’s 40.
Abbeville’s Raymond Ware 30,
Reese’s 28, and Clinton's Law
rence Jones and Donnie White
with 24 and 23 . . . Shumate
heads conveision point-makers
with 12 . . . Chapman has seven
PAT kicks, Stone six, White
five and Clinton’s Otis Patter
son four.
Three family contests and two
with outsiders constitute this
Friday’s important schedule . . .
Palmetto will be aiming to keep^
its record inviolate at Abbe
ville, white the host Panthers
will be seeking a share of the
leadership ... An Abbeville up
set, paired with a Clinton win
over- Westside, would give the
Midwestern a three-way tie for
No. 1 spot . . . Belton-Honea
Path has an opportunity to puU
even with Laurens for fourth
when it goes to Woodmont . . .'
Lauren* will be hoping to
avenge * 224) lacing last year
at the hands of Warn Shoals,
and McCormick will bid for a
second straight win when it
hosts Walhalla .
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