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Show COACH E. L. ROBERTS of B. Y. university at Provo, who will make effort to prevent pre-vent his basketball stars from being disbarred. -.iiiifliiiiniiffliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii , rots!) . -v" Coach Says Players Are Eligible to Play in Practice Games. Eugene L. Roberts, coach of alhlolIcH at Brlgham Young university at Provo. Is still Insistent thai Lester Greenwood and Loo Simmons should not be declared Ineligible In-eligible to compete in basketball against the University of Utah. Mr. Roberts said last night: .Our gamos with the University of Utah arc only practice games and they do not count In the Utah lcaguo competition. We have heretofore accepted ac-cepted the U. of U. athletes without questioning whether or not they aro ineligible, and we expect tho same courtesy when competing in practice games. If the eligibility of our playors is doubted It should only be fair to have the eligibility of players of other institutions in-stitutions looked Into-Professor Into-Professor Hyrum BcclcHtrand. chairman of tho University of Utah eligibility committee, com-mittee, says that Greenwood was ineligible ineligi-ble as lie had already pluycd four years of collcgo basketball. Coaches of the B. .i,5anMth0 V.1"! -Agricultural college, tho Utah league are willing to allow lircenwood and Simmons to "play In the 5r1,h,i TJ)P U' Js no Ion5cr a member of tho league. r.fLCrnSJn,no.i1s.,pI:iJ'ed 011 tile University of Utah basketball team before the Christmas holidays. He was a great forward for-ward and one of the best player that over represented the unlvcrsltv. 'when f?l "t0 l,iis Simmons entered tho B. . L. Professor Beckatrand dn- leHcs! that th'S ,S '"'snttlon among nth- |