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Show Weber State Wildcats: A Horn State Team By TOM Bl'SSELBERG LAYTON The Weber State Wildcats football team can truly be called a home team, if any in the state can claim that title. THE FIRST six players" signed were all-staters and the team ended up with ten Utahns. more than anywhere we've got to turn that around." he said, noting community com-munity support has been good but can always be better. A summer football camp is being prepared now. to run from Saturday-the I Nth for youth ages 10-17. The camp will be less expensive than others offered operated by the coaching staff. It gives youth a chance to learn football and the college a chance to see some of the state's best pla ers in some '.ays. including the chance to play for national championships in the smaller IAA division. "Realistically USU. BYU and the I1 can t compete nationally." he said, with BYU possibly reaching Kith place, "but then it has to fight Alabama." "The game is for those college col-lege students. We can't torget it's just a game. It's for the kids, the play ers. It's ,t college institution, students lirsi and and may provide the edge that will bring some back. Coach Price said. WEBER IS in a better position posi-tion than other state schools. players second." But coaches aren't fired because their plav ers don't gel a high enough grade point average, but he-cause he-cause their teams don't win. he-added. else. Coach Mike Price told the Layton Chamber of Commerce Com-merce last week. "I've recruited in Denver. Miami. Seattle. Chicago, etc.. and I think football in Utah is as good as any place, there just aren't as many (people). I made a commitment to the college col-lege president that the staff would actively commit to recruiting re-cruiting local high school kids." LOOKING AT probable strategies for the coming season, sea-son, he said it'll be passing first v and running second, the reverse re-verse of normal. And when defense de-fense takes the field they will be aggressive. The team's got a good field-goal kicker and punter pun-ter to the point they might not be going on the field to punt, the new coach added. Coming from the University MIKE PRICE of Missouri, where he served as an assistant coach for three years and was a former player in as many bowl games. Mr. Price said games there would routinely attract 75.000. "It's not a game, it's a big business." busi-ness." AT WEBER State, meanwhile, mean-while, the team isn't even known as an Avis, but "We're little number four. Eventually |