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Show Utes Moan Green Squad This Year Despite having one of the greenest squads in Redskin history and regardless of the fact that the Utes face one of their toughest schedules optimism opti-mism was the order of business busi-ness as the University of Utah grid machine began practice Monday. Coach Ray Nagel greeted a numerically small squad of 52 with 34 of these being sophomores. sopho-mores. It's almost like going after a bear with a switch when you look at the Utah '59 slate. The Redskins must meet four Pacific Coast squads in Oregon, Washington, UCLA and Idaho. Another rough in-tersectional in-tersectional foe, Arizona, and five improved Skyline squads Wyoming, BYU, Colorado State, Denver and Utah State. But, Coach Nagel is enthusiastic enthus-iastic concerning his club and predicts a pretty good season with his team improving as the year progresses. Says Ray, "We are green but have some pretty good talent. In Larry Wilson we have one of the finest fin-est all-around backs in the nation. na-tion. This kid can do it all. Our sophomores are good and only lack experience. I believe the Utes face their toughest slate in history but we're going to be a representative team and just might pull an upset or two along the line." The Ute schedule for this season: Sept. 26, Oregon at Oregon; Oct. 3 Washington at Seattle; Oct. 9, BYU at Salt i Lake City; Oct. 16, Denver at I Denver; Oct. 24, Wyoming at Salt Lake; Oct. 31, Arizona at ' Salt Lake; Nov. 7, Idaho at , Boise; Nov. 14, Colorado State at Salt Lake; Nov. 21, Utah State at Salt Lake; Nov. 28, UCLA at Los Angeles. |