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Show BYU Cougars line up against George Vashingfon U. Saturday wing: that proved very effective effect-ive against Arizona. Top back for Washington is Dick Drummond, all-Southern Conference halfback, who is the team's number one offensive offen-sive threat. BYU will counter with Eldon Fortie, who sparks the BYU squad from tailback. He accounted for 470 yards total offense in Saturday's game 170 rushing; 300, passing. That old feeling of football frenzy wafted through the rank and file at Brigham Young University Monday as the Cougars, returned to the practice field to prepare for their debut at home against George Washington at 8 p.m. Saturday night. The upsurge in interest is strong showing in defeat against ag-ainst Arizona. Playing exceptionally excep-tionally good football for a full 60 minutes, the Cougars lost a heart-tugging 21-27 decision de-cision in the WAC opener with the Wildcats. Judged as the last pick in nearly every preseason poll of WAC teams, BYU may yet change the complexion of things in the new league before be-fore the season is over. Sharing the field with BYU Saturday night in Cougar stadium sta-dium will be an eastern opponent, oppo-nent, George Washington University Uni-versity of Washington, D. C. The Colonials, like the Cougars, Cou-gars, stand 0-2 for the season. sea-son. Saturday they lost a one-point decision, 14-15, to Virginia Tech. In their opener they were beaten, 22-6, by Virginia Military Institution. The game in Provo will be George Washington's first football foot-ball venture in the Far West. The contrast will give fans some basis for comparing the merits of football from the two vastly different geographical geograph-ical areas. Coach Jim Camp has the Colonials using a Wing-T, while the Cougars will be running run-ning out of a modified single- |