Mississippi State at Georgia

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1961, page 77

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  Salesman Tom Nugent is SELL ing the South Carolina foot ball team this week, and for the good Of the Terps’ post season hopes. it is hoped the players are buying more than the press. The Maryland coach and Bernie Reid, his assistant who has secuted South Carolina three times. both made sincere attempts to build up the Came cocks at the weekly press lunch con yesterday. but 1t was OBJ vious that the audience was unimpressed. Nugent and Reid couldn’t take away the facts that South Carolina has won only one game. has scored only three touchdowns all season, and in the last two weeks has scored % points to So for LSU and North Carolina. However, from q coaches standpoint, the Gamecocks have shown enough to make the Maryland staff wary of the game coming up Saturday at South Carolina. Duke Staged Comeback Briefly. this is the South Carolina record: Lost. 7–⁠6. to Duke on a So yard march late in the last quarter after two field goals had put the Blue Devils behind. The Duke drive started from a recovered Gamecock tumble. Won, 10–⁠7 over Wake Forest. Lost, 17–⁠14. to the Georgia team that beat Mississippi State last week. Lost, 42–⁠0. to LSU after q respectable first half. Continued pass intereeptions and penalties finally took the heart out Of the Gamecocks. Lost. ITO to North Carolina. The Tar Heels scored on an in terception with two minutes to play. Until then, 1t was close. What disturbs Nugent and Reid the most is that South

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Georgia leads 22–⁠6 in 28 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.