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Show Redskin Hoopsters Shooting Good The 1959 Utes are the best shooting University of Utah basketball team in the past ten years as far as field goal percentages per-centages are concerned. In fact, they could be the best in the school's history but shooting percentage records have only been kept snce 1948 and any marks prior to that are incomplete. incom-plete. The '59 Utes are throwing the ball through the hoop at a .415 clip for 13 games which is far above any previous Redskin average. av-erage. Seven Utes are shooting over the .400 mark. They are: Carney Crisler .495, Rich Ruf-fell Ruf-fell .468, Dick Shores. 426, Jim Rhead .425, DeLyle Condie .421, Pearl Pollard .403, and Gary Chestang .401. Coach Jack Gardner points out that the shooting has been a real life saver. Says he, "We've made a large number of mistakes this year. More than my teams usually usual-ly make but the shoting has been great. In fact, in our last two games we shot .500 against Mon- i i i i - tana and .480 against State. And, we had to hit this well to win these games. Against either of these clubs we would have lost with just an average night." The two wins, on the road, give Utah a good start in the Skyline race. The Utes have two at home this week with New Mexico and Denver. The Lobos showed surprising sur-prising strength in knocking off defending Skyline champs, Wyoming Wyo-ming and Denver on the right night is the hottest shooting club in the league. Gardner and his Utes can't afford to sit back and take it easy. For some reason the Redskins have not been exceptionally ex-ceptionally strong at home. In fact, two of their four losses this year have come in their own bcakyard. A let down against either the Lobos or Pioneers will be disastrous. . Gardner seems to have settled on a starting line-up of Rich Ruf-fell Ruf-fell and Gary Chestang as forwards, for-wards, Carney Crisler center, and Dick Shores and DeLyle Condie at guard. Jim Rhead at forward and Pearl Pollard at center are the first line replacements. replace-ments. Pollard looked great in Utah's win over Utah State Saturday Sat-urday night, pouring in 22 and pulling down a good share of the rebounds. |
