Show COUGARS WIN FIRST TILT IN FIGHT FOR TIE J LL lv Ll J. J J. J tah Wilt lIn In Weird Struggle l. l At Logan 39 to 32 J fI gars Run Up 35 16 Lead Only to Falter in n Final Half Teams Play Again Saturday i r By BJ Otis Peterson Feb 27 des des- LOGAN Brigham 27 Young university fighting to 10 stay In the running for br the western rn division Rock Rocky Mountain Inference basketball title won a weird game from Utah Friday II ht ht The final score was 39 7 I The Cougars piled up an early first half hail lead and continued for the sst rt t. t four minutes of the second half and it is this that saved them from froni from the race The score at half hail time was 25 13 for B. B Y U. U ad d with only 16 minutes to go to the final J gun un they had run the score P P t to 36 1 But then they fell feU to pieces averting aver aver- ting over a third of their field at- at UP to that time the thc best the thenUS nUS could do dOt w. x then on was J 1 f to lone goals Yi i f 25 at at- Ji Elover io gifts A And AndI d dur r. 1 this final I- I c o utes t the Ag slowly lowlY and f full ully climbed v f W to double their f when t the e ral- ral t t N f i r Nine of ned of ta 16 points ints dur- dur t that last futile r r J fort lort of the Aga Ag Ag- a were counted l. l W so r Campbell 11 W vIrn h o f s r. r o r M o bombard x tt d Ii been f fir A. A 8 ir i I f the hoop up to J t trift rift A- A I. I t time without 1 OU Everett Campbell I suns with both bothams fast started The be game gins ams about on an even basis with withe e exception that where Utah ten tn missed the thc backboard the Cou Cou- 5 managed to make their chances a tJ'S start start- oA od Captain Elwood Romney i Ithe the scoring for B. B Y U. U with a long shot from the thc side of e e floor loor The Cougars ran their ore up to lo six points before Camp Camp- ill started the thc scoring with setup and from then until the half managed to keep the thc score ap ap- nc lie double seres MISS D During ring the first period the id ii 38 tries at the hoop and counted foe five while thc the Cougars made 10 LI fly f oe ds w from freon the thc field out of 13 attempts Agg incidentally were badly on 11 Vir foul pitching also count count- on oni three out of nine eJ started to work in a 1 like manner in the thc second lad ind nd counted 10 points while the thees es were collecting a meager three kers Finally when it looked as ugh they had the game sewed up tain Romney called time out for forY fory y yu U. U Just what he told his fellow during that idle period will vilI never be known but it was wast rt t bad medicine The Thc Cou Cou- went completely to pieces with lad nd of 19 points they refused to ii but kept driving down the thc floor Hr li to have tave the thc ball roll roU lazily off hoop or else miss the thc backboard irely ely le flie e game was one o of the thc weirdest res nes es played here this year being beins of extremely good and c. c ex- ex mely ely bad playing on the part of e B. B Y U. U with the playing uniformly poor game same The FarmS Farm I showed plainly that they were the tail end of a most disastrous son n Belliston and Cropley Crople uly ny ly failing to register anything in way of real playing plain Sonn Sonny Allsop and Everett at center did some good goodr r k c at times times' but they were unable o it alone without help from their inmates amates ates SHINES Captain Romney of or B. B Y U. U cap cap- td d high point honors with 13 b four of his five ho goals being heing is red from near the center of floor hoer L. L Johnson LeSueur and litman Itman all did some excellent work the guard line Nelson of B. B Y U UI I Campbell of a alternated the scoring Nelson counting nine his us 11 points in the first half while counted nine of his 12 nil its ts In the second canto he be e victory brought B. B Y U. U up within a halt half game of Utah The teams wind ind up the seasons season's sched sched- d 4 games tonight and if the thc B. B Y U. U is S again they will pull pun up into a with Utah Utan thus forcin forcing a playoff ore the winner can play Wyoming ithe the tho conference title B. B Y U. U is avy favorite to repeat their per- per nanct anc of Friday night although if can once start registering anybody's ball game ame he be e game was witnessed by one of i 1 largest crowds of the thc season an anal ansual sual al when a leader is a tall end club B. B BYU Y U Ur r G. G Ft Fth TP To F an UI tY rf 6 2 i 1 is 13 isIf If 1 i 1 I 1 Ii 3 2 nc b 6 1 1 i 11 ii 2 if rr 2 5 a 2 z 6 2 C o o o o a U tain Ii r g 2 g 3 g 0 4 3 fi J If i 1 0 0 3 I 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 17 12 a 35 32 14 j UTAH Q 0 Ft FL Fth TP F pr on rl 0 0 3 2 I 2 I 2 5 2 1 3 2 6 4 it c. c J 4 2 12 3 pit 3 1 6 2 8 1 r 1 j 1 0 g 2 I 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 It A g g g 12 17 8 32 11 ire 18 nur Lt U. John Stewart I |