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Show Jake Spots Sports By MIKE JACOBSEN Head Football Coach Bill Meek and his Redskins -n kick-off 1968-69 with contests at Nebraska and Oregon St t two of the top five teams in the country; and the overall Tit h sports outlook for next year is extremely bright. A most Sf f icult fall schedule will greet the gridders, but Utah has th coaching staff and personnel to cope with it. tne 34 lettermen return. Norm McBride, Gary Kerl Vvr Bougere and Jack Miller will make a strong front four whiS linebackers Doug Poulson, Larry Stone, Fred McFarren and Dwight Staten, and deep backs Leon Paulos, Craig Smith Gary Barker and Jim Stret, will complete a very formidable defense. Missing will be Manny Fernandez and Jerome Law-son. Law-son. Tim Collins, Ray Groth and Steve Jones will battle for the number one signal caller, and they will have Steve Molriar M Dave, Simth, Bill Fowler, Greg Soulds and Cal Poulson as their U running backs. Ed Johnson, Jim Rees, Marion Boykin and ' ' Kent Ramon will be doing the blocking, while Jack Andrews Speedy Thomas, Ted Harper and Dale Nosworthy will be catching the passes. Gone are Norm Chow and Charlie Smith ' J A good freshman program, with the best Utah high school seniors among the first crop, will be initiated. J The first six basketball players, Merv Jackson, Walt s5 Simon, Lyndon Mackay, Jeff Ockel, Don Denson and Ron Dre Cunningham, have graduated, but Jack Gardner will still be Can around. Five lettermen, Joe English, John Hunter, Sam Robinson, Rob-inson, Bob Martin and John Landures, will team with redshirts ft Dennis Cook and Jim Mahler, and freshmen Mike Newlin, Ken Itte Gardner, Craig Clark, Ken Borrevick, Russ Northcutt and iigs Terry Kunysz, to form the nucleus of the 1968-69 Runnin it 11 Redskins. ;urh Wrestlers Should Win Conference Title jani Only conference champion Gary Jensen will be missing from the wrestling team, and many grapplers, Bob Bills, Jeff m Winderlin, Bob Kawa, Glen Kawa, Ron Lemmon, Mark Nelson, x: Jim Frost, Steve Roshek and Frank Holtry, are championship an, : caliber. The top four skiiers, Danny Craig, Dave Jenkins, C Robyn Newcomb and O. J. Kolderup, will also return. ' Once again, Coach Don Reddish will come up with another ( top-notch swim team. Don Gray, Steve Goddard and-John I Kesler are gone, but Tom Akrop, Steve Elsnab, Dave Fuhri- man, Rich Kittel, Rob Kittel, Terry Lewis, Ted Olson, Chip Patton, Jim Rasmussen, Tim Roark and Mike Rockwell will r be vying for Utah's seventh consecutive WAC title. Whereas the spring showings were a little disappointing this year, it could be the strong suit next season. With the exception of Hugh Voorhees and Sal Mendoza, all the 1968 record setters will be on hand. Bob Batie, Scott Bringhurst, Darryl Busby, Curt Dudnick, Ron Zefferer, Al Weed, Ron Taylor, Scott Peterson, Doug Wassom, Jim Hawkins and Bob Rodenseizer are capable of placing in the WAC top five, and Greg Baldwin, who has broken the Utah high school 880 record, rec-ord, is enrolling at the U. The baseball team will be minus John Nordquist, but the rest of the team is intact. Dick Hardy, John Landures, Mark DiGiosio, Alan Axtell, Brent Walker and Dan Prock will anchor the pitching, while Frank King, Scott Mayne, John Hunter, r, Tom Kilgore, Steve Mellow, George Theodore, Lee Warbur- i ton, Gary Cleverly and Jim Whiteley will be the top hitters and fielders. F. D. Robbins, Dave Harmon and Earl Freeman will enroll en-roll at Utah to play tennis, and the top three singles players, Dale Fritz, Laury Hammel and Scott Bennion, will return. The entire golf team, led by Reid Goodliffe, Jon Fister, Martin Becker, George Jackson, Dave Jenkins, Dick Palmer and Mike Wagstaff, will also be back. it. |
