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J In Homecoming Game PC Hosts Gardner-Webb Saturday THE WINNERS! — Clinton High footballers hoist Head Coach Keith Richardson to their shoulders follow ing last Friday’s 40-0 win over Lau rens. It was Clinton’s seventh win of the season against two losses.— (Photo by Eddie McGee) Holding locks on at least a share of the Carolinas Conr ference championship, Pres byterian College’s Blue Hose will play host to Gardner-Webb Saturday afternoon in PC’s annual homecoming celebra tion. The kickoff is slated for 2:30 p.m. The Blue Hose wrapped up at least a tie for the conference title last Saturday by dumping Catawba 28-22 in Salisburg, N. C. The win boosted PC’s conference record to 4-0 with only the Thanksgiving Day game with Newberry remaining on its conference slate. Prior to the Newberry game, PC hosts Gardner-Webb this week and Carson-Newman next week in non-conference games. The Hose have a 4-3 overall re cord. PC shared the Carolinas Con ference championship with Le noir Rhyne in 1966 and 1968 but has never won the title outright. Gardner-Webb defeated Mars Hill lastSaturday 18-13 as Quar terback Ray Hannon passed for two touchdowns. At Salisburj, PC ran up a 28-point lead before Catawba rallied for 22 points in the final quarter. Concerning Catawba’s rally, PC Coach Cally Gault com mented, * I must take the blame for those last touchdowns...! made the mistake of substitut ing too soon and we ended up fighting for our lives..Guess we just ‘called off the dogs’ too soon...” On its opening series of downs, PC drove from its own 12 to Catawba’s three but lost the ball on a fumble. However, the Hose took over on the Catawba 26 following a Catawba punt but again lost a fumble on the 15. PC took another punt at their own 42 and this time drove in for the score. Tam Milton plunged over from the one and Jerry Chandler kicked the extra point for a 7-0 PC lead with 13:20 left in the second quarter. Passes of 18 and 10 yards from Allen McNeill to Lynn Dreger and Ken Lister sparked the drive, along with two good gain ers by David Eckstein. Richard Medlin recovered a Catawba fumble at PC’s 38 and the Hose marched 62 yards to score. Eckstein capped it with a one-yard burst Chandler’s kick made it 14-0. Eckstein’s 21- yard gallop was the long gain er in the drive. At halftime, PC had the 14-0 lead. PC tackle John Perry re covered a Catawba fumble at the Indians’ 32 to set up PC’s third score. Johnny Jegelnik zipped 15 yards on a draw play for the touchdown. The extra point failed and PC had a 20-0 lead. PC drove 72 yards for its final score. McNeill scrambled for 11 and 18 yards and hit Bill Caldwell with a 22-yard pass to cover most of the yardage. Mil- ton went over from the two for the touchdown. McNeill passed to Jeselnik for the two-point conversion and PC had a 28-0 lead with 11:29 remaining in the game. Even so, Catawba gave PC some anxious moments. Indian quarterback Harry Mooikian came out throwing, hit nine straight passes, including a 24- yard scoring heave to make it 28-6. Catawba recovered a PC fum ble at the 32 and Mcnoldan, using passes and draw plays, moved the Indians to the 20 where he hit Fullback Steve Roe don on a screen pass for the touchdown. The two point conversion was good and it was 28-14 with 2:59 remaining. With 18 seconds remaining in the game, Monokian passed 30 yards for the final Catawba score which capped a 99-yard drive. He passed for the two- point conversion to make the final score 28-22. THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., -7-A BILL CURRIE Kid Devils, Devils Seek jvs Both gth Against On Road ^ Mouth of the South ACC Unrealistic There ain’t, as they say in the backwoods country where my daddy’s folks used to grub a ilving out of turpentine, no way for the Atlantic Coast Conference to survive as it is presently con stituted and festering as it is under ridiculous and outdated rules. South Carolina and Clemson have served notice that they are sick and tired of trying to play and recruit athletes when so many excellent boys are going outside the con ference because of the 800 score required on the college board examination. The examination is a questionable vehicle at best, and not another major conference nor any of the top independent schools in the nation re quire an 800 score for a boy to enroll and be eli gible for athletics and a grant-in-aid. The idea is that the ACC is so lofty in its academic excel lence that its athletes must be smarter in books than anyone else. The inequities arer ampant. Forst a “stu dent” may be accepted in many of the institu tions without 800 on the college board exam. But no student can play varsity athletics, even if he pays his own way, unless he has attained such a score. This is manifestly unfair, and if it were to be litigated in the courts would undoubtedly be struck down. A student may play in the band, act in the dramatic club, or march and protest without 800, but he may not play varsity snorts. The System Universities grade on a 4.0 system. The 4.0 represents maximum achievement or an “A”. A student must project 1.6 at least to be given an athletic scholarship under NCAA rules. Well, this is idiocy compounded because the ACC uses the toughest formula to see if a kid is likely to make 1.6. It involves his high school class rank as well as the college board score. The ACC uses the NCAA formula. The Southeastern Confer ence uses its own formula, and frequently guys who fall below the 1.6 projection in the ACC soar well above in the SEC and wind up playing for Georgia or Alabama or some other powerhouse. Many institutions now allow a certain per centage of their student bodies to be admitted without minimum academic achievement. The peo ple so considered are of minority races or de prived backgrounds. Many of them do well in college, graduate and go on to success. Of course, in the Big Ten and the Ivy League, a great many of these so-called deprived persons are topflight athletes. This is one reason so many super black athletes tear off to far away places rather than stay to play and go to college hereabouts. A Suggestion If the ACC would keep its present rules and allow eadi school to recruit five additional foot ball players each year who would be excluded from the regular academic requirements, then pjphaps the conference would not disintegrate. The very professors who weep for the black man in the classroom are the same ones who are keep ing so many first class black athletes out of the ACC schools. It is a myth that excellence in athletics wa ters down the strength of academics on the cam- S us. Students on athletic scholarships invariably ave better grade averages than the average of any student body. And it is a lie to imply that they are taking easy courses. Check the school work done by athletes; they are the best group on any campus because they know how to work, can get organized, and respect leadership and authority. If the academic wheels who run the ACC schools want to improve their whole picture, the first thing they should do is strengthen athletics, and this begins with the elimination of the threadbare 800 rule, and a realistic approach to admissions. Clinton High School’s junior varsity football team will try to get back on the winning track tooight when they visit New berry. The JVs suffered their se cond loss of the season Mon day night, losing at Westside 20- 14. The game originally was scheduled last Thursday but was postponed to Monday be cause of rain. The Bell Street Junior High Kid Devils will be at J. L. Mann tonight, Thursday. The Kid Devils were scheduled to play at Union last week but that game was cancelled be cause of rain. Playing in a downpour, West- side struck for two quick first quarter scores. Jimmy Arm strong putcilnton on the score- board with a five-yard burst in the second quarter, capping a a 70-yard drive. Armstrong kicked the extra point andClin- ton trailed 14-7 at halftime. Clinton tied the score In the third quarter when George Bodie scored on a 35-yardpass play from quarterback Barry Saunders. Armstrong kicked the extra point and it was 14-14. Westside scored the winn ing touchdown with one minute, 30 seconds remaining in the game, driving 45 yards for the tally. Clinton defeated Westside 21- 0 in a previous meeting. 0 * * 0)1(1 Weather Fires NEW YORK — Fire losses usually are higher in the winter than any other time of the year, says the Insurance Infor mation Institute. Although other factors are involved, this is a result mainly of heating hazards. Woodmont The Clinton High School Red Devils will be shooting for their finest football record since 1965 when they play host to Woodmont Friday night. The kickoff for the Wilder Field battle is scheduled for 8 p.m. Clinton will be heavily favored to chalk up their eighth win against two looses. The Red Devils won No. 7 last week, ripping Laurens’ Tigers 40-0. If Clinton wins Friday night, it will be the first time since 1965 that the Red Devils have won eight games in a season. The 1965 Red Devils posted a 10-1 mark, losing only to Woodruff 13-7 in that now legendary rain-soaked show down. The 1970 Red Devils proved to be good ‘mudders* last Friday in Laurens as they raced to a 27-0 halftime margin on a rain soaked field. Clinton scored on its first possession, driving 86 yards to the three where Divid Man- gum squirtedover for the touch down. A 45-yard run by Mangum and a twisting 20-vard burst by quarterback Donnie White were the big gainers in the scoring march. Otis Patterson kicked the first of his four extra points for the night and Clinton had a 7-0 lead. Clinton muffed its next scoring change, losing the ball on a fumble at Laurens’ eight on the last play of the first half. In the second quarter, Billy Young returned a Laurens punt 22 yards to the Tigers’ 38 to set up the next Red Devil Tally. 9, ■•Vj \ A TOUCHDOWN BOUND—Clinton’s Billy Youn* ia all alone as he gathers in a pass from Donnie White for a touchdown against Laurens last Fri day. The pass play covered 42 yards and went tor Clinton’s second TD in a 40-0 rout of the Tig ers.—(Photo by Eddie McGee) STATISTICS CHS First Downs Yards Rushing Yards Passing Total Yardage Passes Punts Yards Penalized LAURENS 15 315 67 382 2-3 3 -26 77 51 7-12 2-33.5 7-27 50 45 A couple of plays later, Clin ton was penalized back totbe42 for clipping but on the first play from there, White tagged Young with a pass down the middle and Young scooted in for the touchdown with 8:30 re maining in the first half. Pat terson’s extra point kick was no good and Clinton held a 13-0 lead. White scored Clinton’s third touchdown as he went out to his right, cut left across the field and rambled 29 yards to paydirt. His scoring run capped a 55-yard drive which high lighted a 15-yard run by Man- gum. With eight seconds remaining in the half, White passed 24 yards to Young for another Red Devil score. White was rushed hard and was tackled but on the way down he threw to Young who gathered it in at the one and stepped into the end zone. Clinton led 27-0 at halftime. In the first half, Clinton was credited with eight first downs while Laurens had only one and that one came on a penalty. Clin ton had 192 yards rushing and Laurens, faced with a hard- charging Clinton defense led by sophomore guard Robert Scott, was held to minus 12 yards rushing. Clinton tacked on two more touchdowns in the second half before the reserves finished the game, playing most of the fourth quarter. Tackle Charles Norman blocked a Laurens punt attempt and Patterson picked it up at the 50 and raced to Laurens’ 38. Clinton drove down to the five where fullback Ray Lowman powered over for the score. A two-point conversion try failed and Clinton had a 33-0 lead. Donnie White scored his se cond touchdown of the night only minutes later as he muscled over from the three to cap a 50-yard drive. Young set the drive in motion as he intercept ed a Laurens pass at the 50. Patterson’s extra point kick made the final score 40-0. * * * Insurance Taxes LISTER LEAPS—Presbyterian Col- day at Salisbury, N. C. The sideline lege’s Ken Lister (22) leaps for a pass was complete and helped set up pass from quarterback Allen McNeill one of the PC touchdowns—(Photo in PC’s win over Catawba last Satur- *>y Pan Yarborough) Thornwell Finale Cancelled Thornwell’s football season concluded last week as its trip to Ninety Six was cancelled. The two teams were scheduled to play Friday night but the game was postponed be cause of rain and was reset for Saturday night. OnSaturday, Thornwell Coach Ben Crabtree said Ninety Six representatives told him the field was still “too wet’ for play and cancelled the game. The Saints wound up with a 3- 2 conference record and was 4- 5 overall, counting the final game as a forfeit. Some Fish Are Unfit Fish in some South Carolina rivers are unfit to eat because they have too much mercury in them, the State Board of Health said today. “Contrary to reports by the S. C. Pollution Control Authority, fish taken from the Savannah River contain mer cury levels above those set by the Federal Food and Drug Administration,’ said State Health Officer Dr. E. Kenneth Aycock. The Savannah was closed to fishermen in August. Mercury concentrations very close to the recommended tolerance levels have also been found in Hart well Lake and Lake Keowee- Toxaway. Large but no excessive re sidues of mercury have been found in fish taken from the Saluda, Reedy, Edisto, Wateree and Broad Rivers as well as Clark Hill Resevoir and Lake .Greenwood. PLAVERS OF WEEK — Quarterback Donnie White, left, and center-tackle Lewis Henderson have been named Clinton High ‘Players of the Week’ for their play last week in the 40-0 win over Laurens. White gained 79 yards in nine carries, completed two passes in three attempts, both for touchdowns, and graded 90 per cent on carrying out his assignments. Henderson, a jun ior. blocked a punt, made five individual tackles and graded 86 per cent. Henderson also was nemed Greenville Piedmont ‘Player of the Week’ and was a guest at the Greenville Touchdown Club where Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears was guest speaker. TO MAKE A GREAT USED CAR DEAL NEW YORK —Insurance companies paid more than $2.75 billion in taxes and fees to the federal and state governments in 1968, reports the Insurance Information Institute. 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