Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game 35,000 spectators, the biggest crowd ever to watch a sport event in South Carolina, jammed the stadium. The grimmest man present was big Rex Enright, Carolina's coach. His team had lost every game this season. If he lost on Big Thursday, he and everybody else in South Carolina knew that he'd better begin looking for another job. Before the end of the first quarter, Enright's team was behind, 13-0, and the Clemson stands were calling for their boys to pour...
...They're Wilting!" Coach Enright paced the sidelines, hoped for a break-and got one. Carolina's star halfback, Steve Wadiak, got some blocking and ran a kickoff back 60 yards. A few plays later Carolina had a touchdown. At halftime the score was 13-13, and Enright began to believe in miracles. As his boys ran in & out of the game they told him: "Coach, they're wilting...
...Carolina, which had done nothing right in the first quarter, could do nothing wrong after that. Quarterback Bo Hagan tempted fate by throwing passes deep in his own territory-and completed them. The Carolina stands rocked as he heaved a 40-yard pass to put Carolina ahead, then engineered another touchdown to make the final score Carolina 27, Clemson...
...game's end his players carried Enright off the field on their shoulders. His job seemed safe, even if Carolina didn't win another game all year...
...crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind in the [South Carolina] pine trees was like the distant singing of the colored people, singing their sad song to a heedless...