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Show Pt9 8 Sugar House. Utah Thursday, April 24, 1958 INDEPENDENT game home schedule next fall with season tickets selling for 55.00. That's only a dollar a game andWhe Parsons will face some of the area's best . small college teams including. Colorado Minef of the Rocky Mountain Conference. ' s The Parsons will play all their games , on Saturdays next fall with one game scheduled under the. lights at West High School. The rest of the . home games will be afternoon af-fairs at Dane Hansen Memori-al Stadium. The University of Utah will be out of town on each of the days the Parsons are at home. Xo Tennis Team Basketball coach, Howard Richardson is assisting Mer-cer with spring football drills. The Parsons will not field a tennis team this spring, Rich-ardson said. Instead, the Par-sons are concentrating on t spring football. That ' means the Parsons are eyeing an un-beaten season in '58 and a pos-sible bowl bid. It could happen. Parsons Set Spring Tilt On April 30 By Slarion Dunn Independent Sports Editor Westminster College, led by Little Ail-Americ- an candidates Doug Andreason, Mitch Mak-ri- s, and Larry Kirkes, and spurred by the hope of winning a bowl bid next fall, went into their second full week of spring football drills this week. Coach Al Mercer welcomed 36 gridders last week with only two players missing from the team that carried the Parsons to an unbeaten but once-tie- d season last fall. The two mis-sing players are halfback Dale Thibault and tackle Al Opdyke. Thibault will be missed. The little halfback averaged better than five yards per carry last fall and was named to th As-sociated Press Little All-Americ- an team. Opdyke was a rug-ged veteran whose going also leaves a gap in the Parson ranks. Has Experience But the team that Mercer is putting through its paces now promises to be the best team ever to don the Parson colors. It is big and fast and has the one big ingredient the Parsons have needed experience. When Westminster first moved into the intercollegiate ranks in 1955 Mercer took over the head coaching reins two weeks before the season opened. His tea mwas comprised mostly of freshmen and all of them had a new system w to" learn. But that first team won -- : eight out of 10 games and last f fall, with two years of season-ing, won seven and tied one re-ceiving a bowl bid that was re-fused. Now the team is coming of age. It has youth and experi-ence and in Mercer's lineup this week there was enough size to please any college coach. Mercer said the spring drills will last until April 30, at which time the annual spring intersquad game will climax the program. The Parsons are loaded with talent, that is evident, and Mercer has been giving the team an "Oklahoma" look in spring drills so far. The Par-sons have been working on Oklahoma's fast huddle, lineup and snap series and local fans should be in for an interesting fall. Andreason Shines Doug-Andreaso- is certain to help fans forget about Thibault. The blonde speedster hits the line like a shot and could top Thibault's record ball-carryi- ng average next fall. , In the line Kirkes and Mitch Markis are the two bright spots right now but the rest of the line is almost on par with the big two. This line moves fast and appears to have enough weight to give any of the par-son rivals a bad time. Coinciding with the spring drills, the Parsons are opening a season ticket sale drive for next falL Mercer has talks scheduled with Sugarhouse service clubs and he hopes to solicit the backing of local merchants. The Parsons have a six r- ' - V if SjJ c S cr Si. ' I r " I tlT ) 9 " :;3 J I s 5; i; GO o , : 3: IT" .Tv....t i j 1 2. f II fc lllD Tk NJWWAJJuw f lim limn iimii n 1 1 ji iiihi iimi iii ITi tiln"i nn xZZ If &$fb rff,v$v --yW L 1 .J ' V t ; x |