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Show Old Crads Favored In Football Fray This Friday's University of Utah Varsity-Alumni game will bring together the finest collection collec-tion of footballers assembled for a collegiate game in Utah history. his-tory. The fray, slated for 7:30 p.m. in Ute Stadium, has all the earmarks of a real battle with the old grads convinced that they are going to revenge last season's 19-7 loss to the Alums. Coach Pres Summerhays has a star studded group of Alumni gathered together as a squad and any Skyline coach would be happy to have this group an an entry in the 1959 race, this, regardless re-gardless of the age or condition of the former Redskins. A great addition to the Alums was added Monday when Stuart Vaughn, all conference halfback of 1957 and the nation's leading pass receiver, wired that he will fly in from Quantico, Virginia, to play. He said he wanted that one more chance to be the key receiver for All American Lee Grosscup's passes and that he had received permission from the Quantico Marine base to take leave for the big game. He is an officer in the Marine corps. Utah fans will long remember the sensational sen-sational Grosscup to Vaughai tosses and this attraction alone should bring a big crowd to the Stadium. Vaughn caught 53 Grosscup tosses in '57 god for 756 yards. He missed setting a new national record by only five receptions. Grosscup, this same year, broke the national mark for percentage of passes completed. But the passing attack is not the only Alumni weapon. In Merrill Douglas and Herb Nak-ken Nak-ken they have two of the finest runners in Ute history. Douglas is now with the Chicago Bears and Nakken, back from the service, serv-ice, is planning on some Canadian Cana-dian ball. Besides them Summer-hays Summer-hays can use Larry Fields, Vancouver Van-couver draft choice, Karl Jensen Jen-sen and Don Petersen at fullbacks; full-backs; Jed Gibson, Max Pierce, Don McGivney and Dick Ras-mussen Ras-mussen and four great quarterbacks quarter-backs in Grosscup, Rydalch, Carter Cowley and Pete Haun. The Alumni line will not take a back seat to the backs. At center cen-ter there is Tiny Grant, George Milne and John Urses. Guards are Bill Johnson, Bob Lee, Jim Durrant, Gerald Simmons, T. J. Otterbein, Kent Barry, and Chet Franklin; tackles, Evert Jones, Larry Amizich, Gerald Purdie, Don Henderson and Don Jen-son; Jen-son; end Dick Bubak, Jack Kam-meorman, Kam-meorman, Jim Mastelotto, and Dave Hamilton. |