Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-15 | Page 10 | Utes Close Season with 49-24 Win over Aggies

Utes Close Season With 49 24 Win Over BIG SEVEN CONFERENCE I Won Ix Lot Led it Pet Pct TP Ti OP or Wyoming 10 10 2 I Utah 0 9 3 Colorado 7 6 5 a BYU Y U a 6 6 e BOO 41 Cob Colo Stat State 4 8 41 48 1 Denver 4 4 8 Utah State Stat 2 10 36 By WINTHROP WIN CADY The Big Dig Seven basketball race an exciting hectic scramble Until until un un- til almost the last minute was brought to a quiet unimpressive sive close in the U field house Friday night as the Utes humbled humbled humbled hum hum- bled the Utah 49 The game made no difference In the conference standings as the Utes were firmly entrenched in second place and the just as firmly settled in the basement Also it apparently made but little difference to the fans who showed enthusiasm only when giving the I 3 F ry ri to the officials and when applauding the senior players when they left the game Captain Roland Reading of the broke the ice by tossing in the first goal after only five seconds of play The clung to a one and two point lead for the first five minutes minutes min mm- utes and then lost the lead never to regain it The first half was a fairly close contest as the Utes missed almost as many of their shots as the The Indians were in front 23 13 at the half In the final period however Val Sheffield began to hit the hoop and the completely fell out of the game Of Sheffield's Sheffield's Sheffield's fields field's 12 points 10 were made in the final period some of them as a result of sensational long shots Reading and Grant Cullimore with eight and five points reI rei ret re- re i I t J t t paced the Farmers' Farmers offense Their best defensive man Austin Hughes left the game midway in the first halfon half halfon halfon on personal fouls Besides Sheffield Vaughan Bennion Cl Clair ir Anderson Bill Johnson and Carlos Soffe the latter two playing their last games gaines for Utah were ing At times particularly in the second half hall the Utes showed some classy passing and shooting shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing but even with the big score they rolled roIled up they were unimpressive unimpressive minim minim- for the most part The showed the same inability Inability inability ity to connect with the hoop which has marked their play all season They sank only five field goals in the entire game Despite Utah's commanding lead Coach Vadal Peterson kept most of his regulars in the game until the last 45 seconds J I IThe The summary Utah 40 40 49 Utah State Stat 24 I. I tali O G T F P PF Sheffield t 6 1 0 12 3 a t f 1 2 1 3 a 4 Bennion e C e. e 4 0 0 8 1 Johnson g 2 1 0 4 1 Smith g 0 3 3 3 2 Anderson Anderon t 3 3 2 8 3 37 Soffe t 7 o c e. e g 0 t 1 0 0 0 Atkinson g 2 0 0 4 2 t f. f 0 0 0 0 0 Stayner t 0 0 0 0 0 Hardy 0 O 0 0 0 0 g g. g Peterson g 0 0 0 0 O 0 o Hale g EfI 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 21 21 21 12 2 7 7 49 18 38 8 Utah State G a T r P s' P PF rs' Reading f t 3 2 2 8 0 t 0 g 0 g 0 0 1 Mayne i r Hughes Hughei K g 0 2 2 2 4 0 4 2 2 4 g p i 5 Trane I 1 3 1 3 O 0 Cullimore t I f. f 1 3 3 5 0 Simpson g S 0 2 1 1 1 Baugh t g 8 0 1 1 ii g 0 0 0 0 0 Alen B g i 0 0 0 O 0 0 Izatt f t 0 1 1 1 0 Score by halves u Utah 23 49 Utah State 13 13 24 Officials Howard and Collins ColliDe 1