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Show Utes Face Colorado State in Skyline Test The University of Utah football foot-ball team was able to win a game away from home Nov. 10, 1956, when they knocked over Colorado State at Fort Collins by a 49-27. The Utes hope to dump this jinx by beating these same Rams this Saturday on the Collins gridiron. However, the 1958 Staters may prove to be a little rougher than the Rams of '56 and Utah may have their away from home victory vic-tory timetable postponed. Coach Ray Nagel feels that Colorado State probably has the best starting eleven in the Skyline. Sky-line. In fact, CSU Coach Tuffy Mullison has said just that. However, How-ever, they have also been a little weak in depth and if the Redskins Red-skins are to win this Saturday it will have to be because of this. Colorado State has proved to be rough if they get the jump on their opponents as was shown in the BYU fiasco. They knocked off Drake 21-0, gave the Air Force Academy a great contest for three quarters, lost to Wyoming Wyo-ming 7-6 and annihilated Montana Mon-tana last Saturday 57-7. Utah will have to find the answer to the run-pass option which has killed them this year as evidenced by the effectiveness of Joe Kapp in the California game and Jim Walden of Wyoming Wyo-ming last Saturday. Fred Glick, the Rams fine quarterback, is a master at the option, and may give Utah fits Saturday. The Utes came out of the Wyoming Wyo-ming game in good shape physically, physic-ally, with the exception of ends Gary Johnson and Jim Maste-lotto, Maste-lotto, both of whom have ailments ail-ments but could be ready for the Aggies. Nagel praised the play of halfback half-back Larry Wilson in the Cowboy Cow-boy fray. Said Nagel, "Wiilson. has played great ball all year and once again was terrific. The circus catch of Grosscup's pass in the fourth quarter was as fine a catch as I've ever seen. Larry is a good ball carrier, top receiver re-ceiver and a fine defensive performer. per-former. I believe he's a real All-Conference All-Conference candidate." Lee Grosscup, the Utes' All-America All-America quarterback, broke a school record for total yards when he threw for 109 yards against Wyoming to bring his career total of 2199 yards which I bettered Don Rydalch's mark of 2112 set in 1953. Rydalch took three years to establish his record rec-ord and Grosscup still has four games to go to complete his sec-and sec-and season. Grosscup came here 1 as a junior college transfer with ; only two years of eligibility. Two seven year olds had just seen a romantic movie. "Wasn't it awful?" said one. "I didn't think it was so bad," said the other. "During the kissing scenes I just closed my eyes and made believe he was choking her." |