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[Blitzkrieg]

29th Division - made up of NG soldiers from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)

 

[gamecock88]

 

[Swayin]

Woot! Into the 20s! Game 29 of our 33 wins in three seasons was another good one: USC 34, Mississippi State 16.

"The Gamecock defense posted five turnovers to help South Carolina (7-2, 5-2 SEC) claim a 34-16 victory over Mississippi State (4-4, 1-3 SEC) in front of 82,111 fans at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

With three interceptions and two fumble recoveries, South Carolina's defense topped its four turnovers from the UCF game earlier this year. It helped the Gamecock offense to score 18 of its points on the day. The group also tallied six pass breakups and four quarterback hurries while making seven tackles for loss.

Sophomore tailback Mike Davis posted another 154 all-purpose yards, including 128 rushing yards, in the win. It's his seventh 100-yard rushing game of the year, the third most by a Gamecock in history. He also has over 1,000 rushing yards this season, compiling the 10th season at South Carolina with that total.

Senior quarterback Connor Shaw tied a career high with four touchdowns, throwing for 147 yards in a 10-for-20 outing. He's now second in passing touchdowns and in wins for a starting quarterback at South Carolina. He also ties the South Carolina career record for touchdowns responsible, evening Steve Taneyhill's 64. Sophomore wide receiver Shaq Roland hauled in two of those TD passes and led the Gamecocks with 57 receiving yards."

 

[Homebrewcock]

 

[kingofnerf]

Kevin Harvick.

 

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[kingofnerf]

Program for the 1960 Maryland game, which was played on 10-29-1960.

 

[kingofnerf]

#29 RB/CB Jerry Dunlap from Loraine, OH (1983-85)





Defense


 


 


 


 


 




Year


Solo


Ast


Tkl


TFL


Sacks




1983


2


0


2


0


0




1984


2


5


7


0


0




1985


18


27


45


1


0




Tot


22


32


54


1


0




 


 


 


 


 


 




Kickoff Returns


 


 


 


 




Year


Ret


Yds


Avg


TD


 




1983


3


67


22.3


0


 




1984


4


60


15


0


 




Tot


7


127


18.1


0


 




 


 


 


 


 


 




Punt Returns


 


 


 


 




Year


Ret


Yds


Avg


TD


 




1983


27


354


13.1


0


 




1984


29


183


6.3


0


 




1985


17


62


3.6


0


 




Tot


73


599


8.2


0


 





Dunlap is the one who had the electrifying punt return against the Trojans in 1983 that would have gone all the way if he hadn't got stopped around the Trojans' 10-yard-line.

He played well on both sides of the ball on Special Teams.  He had a good stop in the 1984 FSU game during the kick-off return that followed Thomas Dendy's epic 57-yard TD run.  He stuck the Seminoles' Darrell Holloman on the return as he was trying to evade the first tackler.

At one point Jerry was #2 in the nation for punt returns before transferring to Youngstown State his Senior year to play for then-HC Jim Tressel.  He played in the CFL from 1989-91.

He was inducted into the Loraine, OH, Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

With ongoing jokes about the simultaneous finale of the television show “Friends” throughout the ceremony, the inductees fondly recalled those that helped them throughout life. Jerry Dunlap, a 1983 Admiral King graduate and football star at the University of South Carolina and Youngstown State, invited his father Richard to the stage. Taking off the new blue Lorain Sports Hall of Fame blazer that he had just put on, Dunlap presented it to his dad. “It’s for all the years of his dedication,” Dunlap said. “I don’t have the words to tell him how much I love him.”

https://www.morningjournal.com/2004/05/07/friends-family-memories-at-hall-of-fame-induction/

https://www.lorainsportshalloffame.com/dunlap-jerry/

Sa-lute!

 

[kingofnerf]

That was a helluva night! That video shows the old turf and was pre-hedges, too - just the old iron bars in the end zone! I remember after this season (or maybe the next, I can't remember), the school announced that they were doing away with the turf, and a bunch of us were at Easy's on Bluff Road at last call and were like "let's go get a piece of history," so we walked across the street, snuck in through the fence, and used our car keys to saw off little chunks of the turf to "display" in our rooms ... so stupid but hey, I was 18 or 19.

From the '84 Garnet and Black yearbook...

Poor ole Blitzie would vanish in a puff of smoke if his mom had to fix THIS brown spot for her HOA.  LOL

 

[Cockyandproud]

Talking about these old games with Southern Cal and FSU takes me back. Back then I couldn’t watch the games very often, because they weren’t covered like now, and my dad didn’t care anything about sports, and he controlled the tv, so I never went anywhere on a Saturday during football season without a portable radio, so I could listen to Gamecock games. 

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Yikes, I can only imagine the cost of watering that would likely approach the national debt.  lol

 

[gamecock88]

 

[gamecock88]

 

[kingofnerf]

 

[kingofnerf]

Davey Allison.

 

[Spur's Addiction]

Talking about these old games with Southern Cal and FSU takes me back. Back then I couldn’t watch the games very often, because they weren’t covered like now, and my dad didn’t care anything about sports, and he controlled the tv, so I never went anywhere on a Saturday during football season without a portable radio, so I could listen to Gamecock games. 

Yep - Bob Fulton on the Radio. Hardly any games were on TV. 

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Cabot, CVL-28.

USS Cabot (CVL-28/AVT-3) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, the second ship to carry the name. Cabot was commissioned in 1943 and served until 1947. 

USS Cabot was laid down as Wilmington (CL-79), a Cleveland-class light cruiser, re-designated CV-28 on 2 June 1942, renamed Cabot on 23 June 1942 and converted while building.

World War II

Cabot returned to Pearl Harbor for a brief repair period, but was back in action from Majuro for the pounding raids on the Palaus, Yap, Ulithi, and Woleai at the close of March 1944. She sailed to provide valuable air cover for the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) operation from 22 to 25 April, and 4 days later began to hurl her air power at Truk, Satawan, and Ponape. She cleared Majuro again on 6 June for the pre-invasion air strikes in the Mariana Islands, and on 19 and 20 June launched sorties in the key Battle of the Philippine Sea, the famous "Marianas Turkey Shoot", which hopelessly crippled Japanese naval aviation. Cabot's air group 31 pounded Japanese bases on Iwo Jima, Pagan, Rota, Guam, Yap and Ulithi as the carrier continued her support of the Marianas operation until 9 August.

Pre-invasion strikes in the Palaus in September 1944 along with air attacks on Mindanao, the Visayas, and Luzon paved the way for the long-awaited return to the Philippines. On 6 October, Air Group 29 relieved Air Group 31, and Cabot sailed from Ulithi for raids on Okinawa to provide air cover for her task group during the heavy enemy attacks off Formosa on 12 and 13 October. Cabot joined the group which screened "Cripple Division 1", Canberra and Houston which had been torpedoed off Formosa, to the safety of the Carolines, then rejoined her group for continued air strikes on the Visayas, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 25 and 26 October.

Cabot remained on patrol off Luzon, conducting strikes in support of operations ashore, and repelling desperate kamikaze attacks. On 25 November, a particularly vicious one occurred. Cabot had fought off several kamikazes when one, already flaming from hits, crashed the flight deck on the port side, destroying the still-firing 20 mm gun platform, disabling the 40 mm Mounts and a gun director:  Another of Cabot's victims crashed close aboard and showered the port side with shrapnel and burning debris. 62 men were killed or wounded but careful training had produced a crew which handled damage control smoothly and coolly. While she continued to maintain her station in formation and operate effectively, temporary repairs were made. On 28 November, she arrived at Ulithi for permanent repairs.

Cabot returned to action on 11 December 1944, steaming with the force striking Luzon, Formosa, Indo-China, Hong Kong, and the Nansei Shoto in support of the Luzon operations during the South China Sea raid. From 10 February to 1 March 1945, her planes pounded the Japanese homeland and the Bonins to suppress opposition to the invasion of Iwo Jima. Continued strikes against Kyūshū and Okinawa in March prepared for the invasion of the latter island. After these prolonged, intensive operations, Cabot was homeward bound for San Francisco for a much-needed overhaul completed in June.

Preservation attempts (1990–2002)

Cabot was designated as a National Historic Landmark on 29 June 1990. The ship spent most of the 1990s berthed in New Orleans. The private groups attempting to preserve her as a memorial were unable to pay creditors, and on 10 September 1999 the ship was auctioned off by the U.S. Marshals Service to Sabe Marine Salvage of Brownsville, Texas. Its designation as a National Historic Landmark was withdrawn on 7 August 2001. Scrapping of the hulk was completed in 2002.

Her island, along with that of USS Iwo Jima, was obtained for preservation by the Texas Air Museum, at Rio Hondo, Texas. However, that museum subsequently closed, and Cabot's island was demolished. The National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola constructed a replica of Cabot's island using original plans, along with a reconstructed section of flight deck.

Cabot has a large collection of items at the USS Lexington aircraft museum in Corpus Christi, Texas, including all the guns and the anchor. A museum room contains information, artifacts, and pictures of Cabot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cabot_(CVL-28)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS McCall, DD-28.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_McCall_(DD-28)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Wainwright, CG-28.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wainwright_(CG-28)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Louisville, CA-28.

World War II

On 7 December 1941, Louisville, escorting A. T. Scott and President Coolidge, was en route from Tarakan, East Borneo, to Pearl Harbor. She continued on to Hawaii, stopped briefly to survey the damage and proceeded on to California. There she joined Task Force 17 (TF 17) and steamed from San Diego on 6 January 1942, for Samoa, landing troops there on 22 January. Her first offensive operation of the war came on her return trip when she took part in carrier plane raids on 1–2 February on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. During this action, one of her scout planes went missing and the pilot and aircrewman were lost.

Louisville became the first large US ship to enter Philippine waters since 12 December 1941. On October 21, 1944, while Louisville was bombarding Leyte she was hit by the kamikaze plane shrapnel killing one crew member. On 25 October 1944, she was in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, participating in the last engagement of a battle line as the Japanese southern force attempted to force its way into Leyte Gulf through Surigao Strait. Admiral Oldendorf deployed the American battle line across the strait and PT boats and destroyers on either side of the narrow body of water, defeating the Japanese ships as they passed through the strait.

Following Leyte operations, Louisville rejoined the fast carriers now designated TF 38, and participated in pre-invasion strikes against the enemy on Luzon. By the new year, 1945, Louisville was headed towards Lingayen Gulf. While en route on 5–6 January, two kamikazes headed for and scored on her. The first kamikaze on 5 January 1945 hit the No. 2 main battery 8-inch 55 caliber gun knocking it completely out of commission killing one man with 17 injured/burned including Captain Rex LeGrande Hicks. The second kamikaze on 6 January 1945 hit the starboard side signal bridge. Rear Admiral Theodore E. Chandler, commander of Cruiser Division 4 (CruDiv 4) was fatally injured helping the sailors man handle the fire hoses to put out the massive flames during the latter attack, and died of his wounds the following day. Commander (later Rear Admiral) William P. McCarty took control of Louisville and managed recovery efforts in fighting fires and restoration of equipment, for which he was awarded the Silver Star. 42 crewmen were also killed and 125 or more men were wounded. Bridge knocked out of commission at the time forced switch of control to battery no. 2 by second smoke stack. Despite extensive damage, the cruiser shelled the beaches and shot down several enemy planes before withdrawing on 9 January 1945 and proceeding to Mare Island Navy Yard for repairs.

Her repairs completed on April 10, 1945, Louisville delivered Admiral Halsey's 50 officers and 100 staff to the battleship Missouri at Guam and Louisville returned to the Pacific to join TF 54 in providing gunfire support for ground forces on Okinawa. On June 5, 1945, she was again hit by a kamikaze (initially identified as a friendly plane). Four twin 20 AA cannon opened up to set the kamikaze ablaze prior to hitting Louisville which killed eight sailors on a quad 40 mm AA gun mount, injured 45 sailors, bent the number 1 smoke stack and cut Louisville's seaplane off and left only the pontoon on the catapult.

Louisville was back on the gun line by 9 June, to remain on station until ordered back to Pearl Harbor for repairs on 15 June.

Post-War

Louisville's ship's bell is on display at the Navy Operational Support Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

One of her main battery 8-inch 55 caliber gun turrets (Turret No. 2) damaged in a kamikaze attack on January 5, 1945, was removed and replaced. The turret was repaired, but with the end of the war it was no longer needed. After sitting for over a decade, it was taken to the Nevada Test Site and converted into a rotating radiation detector, to collect data on nuclear tests. The turret is located 86 miles NNW of Las Vegas (Lat 37.139455, Long -116.109085).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Louisville_(CA-28)