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Show 'Cougars Hang On For 93-90 Utah Win aa Last Quarter Rush By Redskins Falls Short By JOE WATTS Herald Sports Editor t 90-82 Technical Called ‘TWo And One Plays mo sparked of the bal { three two nverted id one plays that Pie petus and sf purred the mto a; hought of anh had van ¢ minds of the Cougar fans. 22 0 lead Af The str Finn converted the il Ron ( calmal als under extreme weef pressure then also connect. a foul shot for the magniliBut gradually the Utes nar- ed on the bonus fouls in each then Jackson made a cent feed to Sam Robinson who ituation rowed the margin. like Cuts To One n Eakins wag also going seconds remaining on afire, He had points after six the clock All American Mery id then scored three With a house converted a three point play to cut the margin to 90-86, Walt Simon, the nero of the first game between the two back into Jackson tankedabaseline jump additional first half baskets on schools, was ins shot to cut margin to one high leb passes from Lythgoe, thelineupfor Utah and he came 1-90. Howard, and Schouten, The Ute upwith a key steal, He missed slim point Then the sed nse tried to front the 6-11 @ shot and Cunningham ins, but the Cougar passes @ tap-in, but All American Mery placed enabling grabbed the rebound and hit a back-handed lap up to cut the Eakins to score easily The biggest lead of the first margin to 90-88, half for BYU was 17 points at Doug Howard, just a sopho40-23 with 6:51 remaining, At jmore for the Cougars, withstood this point the Liimo-Kakins two Jack Gai dner time outs to scoring combination fell quiet ack 0 be ay to make it 91and Marty Lythgoe i carried the full lead until intermission. storybook finish was clear. The Cougars were to blowit going as they had were expertly in Salt Lake earlier to the tune of 91-89, But no! Ra dy Schouten authored a newversion of the finish by eiuding the Ute full court press and driving the en- tire distance of the floor to drop in a high-flying layup with only 20 seconds remaining and put the Cougars up by three at rn GOING TO THE RIM for two points despite Redskin Ron Cunningham’s defensive effort is BYU's Doug Howard. Looking up at the play is Cougar Randy Schouten under the basket and Utah’s Joe English. (Photo by Phil Shurtleff and Terence L. Day) eek sieoe Cougars @! 93-90. BYU's HIGH SCORING JIM Walt Simon for one of the field goals which helped him aor performance, making him the high pcint man r. . That score stood and Schou-/52‘0 halftime eee heeeaten tieae | ten went to the shouldsrs of his| © teammates. on Committees Win Over To Be Set seconds remaining, and Jackone at 91-90 with 24 seconds, son narruwed the margin to It marked the fifth consecu-| In the second half tie CouWinning Layup and Cougars that hag finished|When Randy out-| ‘That set the stage for Schou. with a margin of three points Scrapped Jeff Ockel for @ re-| en's winning layup with 20 sec- _|o tess. Walt simon tipped one bound and then scored in thelondy ‘remaining in for the Utes at the buzzer,|midst of the giants. | However, in the last meeting but it didn’t count or it would) Thebiggest lead of the game between the two teamg a lot | have been a one point verdict, |came at 11:11 when Marty |happened in 14 seconds, and s0 Up In NFL me Kittens He missed the shot with 49 edge, a Lead tive game between the Utes|8ars widened the lead to 70-4 a Ute Frosh ras | Not Onl Lythgoe hit a layup to make the Cougars weren't sure they Schouten wasn’Psiheonicaty'hoelt eraaatee le for the Cougars. | ule ye John Hunter hit two sleight |grwe‘gene"nthe MEO Ste pooses defeated the BYU Kit-| PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH SUNDAY, FFBRUARY 25, 1968 Jim Eakins ard Kari Liimo fielders for Utah as Gardner in-| double dribble violation and NEW YORK (UPI)—Within|were responsible for serted fresh men into the line-|Jim Baking was immediately the next few days the National}the big Y tead,and Lythgoe did)up, and then Merv Jackson hit|fouled or the inbounds ‘pass Football League may have as/a yeoman shooting job fo keep/an on-the-way-down - delayed play, ‘many committees as it does| the lead. Jump shot 2o cut the margin to} With 11 second on the clock tens in the freshman basket-| ball game following the varsity tilt Saturday afternoon 95-86 GameSidelights after building up a big 53-35 up their mid-winter meeting|points, high honors on the floor, hit another jumper to.cut the! With two seconds on the clock before the weekend, NFL|Liimo and Lythgoe each had 19 margin to six at 88-82, but/Randy Schoutca wes whistled The University of Utah, Pa- halftime edge. Kenny Gardner paced the Papooses with 24 points and was high point man on the floor. Chris Dowling was high for the Kittens with 19 points while Ted Elggren had 16 counters. teams. Eakins finished his final home|12 at 80468. Currently attempting to wrap|game of iis career with 28/ Plea For Sportsmanlike Conduct Heeded at Game owners, through President Art; Modell, announced Thursday that eight or nine committees will be formed in the next few days to cover a maze of| ‘subjects, mostly affecting the Fa} ~ i5 = 3 NFL's merger with the American Football League, scheduled By RAY SCHWARTZ | Jackson of the Uites grabbed ettes, called BYU, “The Home for 1970. PAPOOSES G F Pi In the wake of rowdyism and Jim Eaking around the midsec- ‘of the Greatest Halftime Shows Modellsaid realignmentis the major topic to be decided, but in College Basketball.” Northeut 6 OO 122 unsportsmanlike conduct that tion in tying up the bail, ee also to be discussed will be the Gardner 8 81h has marked several Western But Stan didn’t protest too Kunysz 6 58 17) Athletic Conferénce basketball vociferously, turned right Randy Schouten who scored affect of the merger on the last basket for the Cougars television, schedules, post-seaClark 4 00 8 games this season and in past around and headed back to in the thrilling battle, was rob- son games, the AFL's two-point Newlin 9 13 19) seasons, Dr. Emest L. Wilkin- bench. bed by his teammates and BYU conversion rule and the size for Roberts oO 4 son, president of BYU, made Gardner aiso came off students following the contest. the regulation football. bench with four minutes to Eastmond 2 O01 4) in the first half to yell som e- Several of his teammates start- Modell, owner of the CleveBoravick 8 12 #7 thing at one of his players. ed to carry Scouten off the floor land Browns, revealed that) Totals 89 1933 95 game Saturday yen He also appeared to be saying on their shoulders but suddenly realignment of the NFL's KITTENS feo eae Pointing out that Utah “is a few words to one of the of- ly changed their minds for Eastern Division, even before Bennion 3 3 9) our guest,” Dr, Wilkinson urged ficials as the man in the striped some reason after only moving ‘the merger of the two leagues, is a definite possibility. LeSeur 4 8 9 BYU to treat the visitors as shirt raced past the Ute bench, a few steps. | ee Under last year’s set-up, the Vainio 3 58 1 such and urged the fans to “up- Both coaches spent a little Chaliis 5 47 14) hold the game officials in all moretimeoff the bench in the Mervin Jackson, Utah’s “mar- Eastern Conference was comveloug one,” showed why heis posed of the Capitol Division Dowling 8 3 19! decisions.” “The Magician.’ Jackson leap- | Dallas, Philadelphia, WashingKelly 2 Ww 5 izing that BYU would ed high in the air on one play ton and New Orleans) and the Elggren 6 45 (16) prefer to be known for showing foul called and made a masterful fake at | Century Division (New York, Clark 1 11 3} good sportsmanship than for its Barnes 0 01 0) winning, Dr. Wilkinson then against it late in the game. the top of his jump to elude Cleveland, Pittsburgh and St, Totals 32 2238 86] drew a mighty cheer .com Cou- But, all in all the coaches the tight guarding of BYU’s Louis). omeled their emotions fairly Marty Lythgoe andfire the ball Some owners of Eastern) gar fans when he declared: Halftime Score: Utah 53, BYU “Fortunately, we won't have Conference teams are pressing into the hoop. eae : 35, for New York and New Orleans to make that decision today, because we expect to do both.” ‘The banners bearers were out Coach Watts’ charges made to switch divisions this year so in force again, poking fun at remarkabley good use of the their clubs would get a chance Apparently, the BYU president’s talk — plus all that has the Tival schools. When some “Jong bomb” pass to spring to play in New York. Any “Indian Maidens” players loose for easy layup switch must be approved by a been written recently in the press about the unsportsman- paraded their banners in front baskets that put a lot of points unanimous vote of all 16 NFL owners, like conduct and rowdyism that of BYU students some of > on the scoreboard. MELBOURNE (UPI) — Bob is threatening the game of basketbell — had a beneficial efHayes, star flanker for the fect, because there was a minDailas Cowboys, won the 100 imum of booing in the field- to shreds. It was one of the few instances where a real lack of yard dash Saturday night, his house Saturday afternoon. taird victory in the four events And despite the fact it was sportsmansh-p was shown during the game, of the world pro sprint a tensely-fought struggle with a breath - taking finish, Coach Cosmo the Cougar ar mascot championships, Stan Watts of BYU and Coach C made the mistake of “invading Hayes, an Olympic gold Jack Gardner of Utah did a a circle of “Indian Maidens” of i during a Ute war dance. Cosmo medal winner in 1964, beat remarkable job Australia’s Dave Irvine by their emotions under extremely tried to smoke a peace pipe he missed isis one and one shot With 3:17 remaining Jeckson/and Utah was still alive. fer a foul against Ron Cunningham, but he likewise missed his foul shot for Utah. On the rebound efforts Simon made his tip-in at the buzzer, but it was nullified and the story had been written, ‘The victory for BYU assured it of a winning season and alMost knocked Utah out of the Athietnow Utah the the play Bob Hayes Wins 100-Yard Dash about two feet to win the 100yard dash, but was upset by Irving later in the 220-yard run. Hayes had taken both events in the first day’s competition Friday night, winning the 75yard dash in 7.4 seconds and beating irvine by more than three yards, and sweeping the 130-yard sprint with a 12.3 elocking. Hayes, who was favored to Win both of Saturday’s events, expected his main competition from Bill Howard of Australia, but Howard was forced to pull out of the competition when he injured his thigh at the start of Friday's 75-yard race. wins New for st also WAC , aS 19 10 11 2 41-85 11-20 47 9% UTAH “REDSKINS” fi POGR COSMO COUGAR was attacked by the Ute cheer leaders after he interrupted their indian war dance during a timeout. In spite of the fact that he was smoking a peace Pipe the girls just weren’t ve ry friendly. seev, Technical Gives 21-20 Victory up” by Ute Maidens, who patted him rather tenderiy on the noggin. KOOSKIA, In response to the Maiden’s actions, the BYU students yelled: “No class, Utah. No class, Utah.” oe The BYU International Folk Dancerg and the Cougarettes put on another of the fabulous Cougar halftime shows that have become famous across the country. Larry Birleffi, Wyoming in the first 20 minutes of piay. | sportscaster who was one of the Watts stood up a couple of announcers for the telecast of times or so in the first haif, the game, in introducing the once in particular, when Mervin Folk Dancerg and the Cougar-" went rather badly for the Utes Per RANDY SCHOUTEN,left, in white, and Ute Walt Simon, right, in dark uniform, scramble after a loose ball during the action-packed BYU-Utah inisketball game Saturday afternoon, 22 11 5 40-79 10-17 52 90 Field Goal Percentage: BYU 48, Utah 50 trying and difficult circum- and ended up getting “1 stances, At times, the spectators seemed to be straining to contain themselves, but did an admirable job of it considering the tradition and rivalry connected with the game. Both Coach Gardner and Coach Watis almost appeared acid at times in the first alf as they sat on the bench and watched their charges roar up and down the floor. Gardner's composure was particu larly noticeable because things Si BYU hadseveral healthy lead: ls during the game but almost had the gamestolen away as the redskins charged hack to come to within three points as BYU won 93-90, 4 Idaho (UPI) - ‘The teamsstalled and the fans yawned and Lapwai won on a tachnicality, 21-20, over St. Gertrude’s in a high school basketball game Friday night. The game was the last of three for the evening in the District 2, A-3 tournament here. Lapwailed 5-0 at the half and things didn’t speed up much in the final period. As the gun sounded it was 20-20. The referee called a technical foul on St, Gertrude’s for “not guarding aggressively.” Mike Gibbs sank the free throw to win the game, |