Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-18

Taking the right to run with 1um-
bled ball away from the defense seems
to me to have been mistake. 1t elm
mates the possibility of great thrill
for spectators and. after all, 1t is the
thrill they get out of the game that In
-,terests the general spectators. OF course,
the alumnuS and the student are In
terested anyway, no matter what kind
of a game is played, provided, OF course,
the team representing the particular
alumnus or student wins"
GamecOcks Look Strong.
After hearing Billy discourse about
others teams it was necessary to go to
other sources to find out something
about South Carolina. 1t is interesting,
too, to note what another school says
about South Carolina, and one state
ment made by the coach of one of the
elevens South Carolina is to play was
South Carolina should be one of the
surprises Of the season, and will have
one of the strongest elevens in the
South" And another person right in
the University of South Carolina comes
across with a bit Of information ex-
pressed thus: Heavy linemen ana fast
backs will constitute South Carolina S
team this year. and the material left
from 1928 with the men coming up
from the freshman team make up about
the strongest squad We have ever had"
So, after ALL despite the fact that
Laval has little to say about his own
eleven, it seems that the Gamecocks. as
the team is called, are likely to be one
Of the most formidable combinations of
the year, as far as the South is con-
cerned. Laval has been carrying on
practice behind closed gates, not allow
ing even the student body to view the
workouts. 1t is Laval's theory that the
men do better work without having in
terruptions from lookers-on, and 1t is
for that reason that he has secret prac-
tice, and not so much because he de-
Sires to conceal something.
It will not be long before South
Carolina gets an opportunity to test its
mettle. An easy game with Erskine is
scheduled for September %, but the
very next Saturday October 5. the team
hooks up with Virginia. And Virginia.
with its reorganization is not likely to
prove easy for any school to handles:
In fact, Virginia probably will be a
harder nut for South Carolina to crack
than the latter anticipates.
Has Long Schedule.
Following the game with Virginia.
South Carolina makes the trip here to
play Maryland, and after these three
games plays eight more. The Columbia
school has about the longest schedule
in the South Its contests for the year
line up like this.
September 28-Erskine at Columbia.
October 5-Virginia at Columbia.
October 12-Maryland at College
Park.
october 1S-Presbyterian College at
Columbia.
october 24-Clemson at Columbia
october 31-Citadel at Orangeburg
November 9-North Carolina at
Columbia.
November Thurman at Greenville.
November 23-Florida at Columbia. :.
November 80-North Carolina State
ut Raleigh.
December 7-Tennessee at Knoxville.
With an 11-game schedule South
Carolina is likely to get all the foot
ball it desires. Some few of the con-
tests it is to play do not appear very
hard, but in most of them it will get
all the competition that is wanted by
any eleven. Others are likely to be
deceptive. Take the, Citadel, for in
stance it is not so we'll known up this
way, yet it battles to the last ditch
against the Columbia eleven. And in
games with other conference rivals,
Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Glenn
son, Florida, North Carolina and North