Show highlights in sports members of the university of utah basketball team should be eligible to write a series of travel logs after the 1955 56 season is complete the utes will travel 20 miles during the year since dec 19 jack gard ner and his marco have only been home for three days and begin a new expedition this wednesday when they leave for denver and al the redskins meet den ver U at denver on thursday and new mexico at albuquerque on sat arday gardner says we weve ve been away from home so long that our home court advantage is gone our kids arent any more familiar with our floor than they are with the appon ants however the traveling has been a wonderful experience for the boys and they haven t missed any school because of it we are a little tired and denver and new mexico have explosive clubs I 1 hope were up to another long session on the road the utes sporting an 8 83 3 season record have to win these two away from home contests to stay ahead of the hard pressing brigham young club at this date the utes and the cougars are the only undefeated teams in conference play wins over the pioneers and lobos would give the utes a 40 4 0 conference mark and more important two tough road games would be under the belt commenting on the season thus far gardner says I 1 believe the team has done very well wen we have played some of the best teams in the nation and have given them all a good battle sure we ve lost three games but we expected to 10 lose se some on the road the fact that the boys are not discouraged and are full of fight is proof that the sea son is a success so far one department that the ute men tor is especially pleased with is the point spread between utah and its opponents the redskins have averaged 81 2 points per game to the opponents 63 6 for a spread of 17 7 the utes lead the nation last season in this department and are getting a strong start toward defend mg the title another ray of sunshine has been the fine play of little curtis jonson the 5 9 guard has played great ball in every contest he is just under 14 points per game in his scoring aver age and has been phe phenon nominal unal on de bense in every fray gardner has assigned jonsen the tough defensive chore and in each case the firey competitor has come through in fine fashion art bunte leads the squad in ing with points for a 19 0 aver age gary bergan 6 8 rebound artist leads in this department with take downs he has also scored points gardner will start the same five against denver and new mexico that he has used all season they are gary borgen art bunte moms morris buckwalter jerry mccleary and curtis jenson the travel roster will include these men plus ed gay gary hale john crowe dick eiler eder bill koncar angelo mit ari antonna tonna and darrell if his injured ankle comes around the utes leave salt lake city at 1 35 wednesday and arrive in den ver at 3 30 p in they return to salt lake city at 1 55 p m saturday skyline conference hoop squads played 17 games away from home and only 29 on their own floors in pre season encounters they won more than half of these contests which is a pretty good record |