Show r v vv v s Sports r ry r rt t 14 1 Mirror o l lo B By JOHN HN MOONEY Telegram Sports Editor Editor I I I Few football fans fan credit Coach Ike I Armstrong with being much ch of a psychologist preferring to class Ike in the Howard Jones nes school of rock sock sock em em football It was with something of a a. a surprise then Thursday evening eve- eve ning when we wandered into the Ute dressing room only to be confronted by a blackboard shorn of the usual bulletins which Simply SImply read Utah State 7 Utah Uta 0 0 At first glance e we thou thought ht possibly Ike lIce was just getting gettin the Utes in the right mental pitch for the Aggie game Jame hero here Thanksgiving but then the truth as it often will dawned on us All week lon long Ike has been fretting and the Utes have hac b been n floating around in practice practice tice nith that we know we the know attitude until as one of the regulars remarked wo wc e Were were just like this the week before before be be- fore the AggIe Aggio last ore game year ear i And so the graphic reminder of the debacle of last season in which an Aggie team rated some 35 points weaker by the experts and betting gentry rose up and smote a cocky and later shocked shell-shocked Utah eleven That is what Ike is worrying about this week and that accounts for exhuming the ghost of last year ear Utah 7 Utah 0 As a boy from the sticks who lias has been suckered b by his share of shell game operators yeah we even en lost on the Dodgers this writer would like to label the grief of Ikes Ike's as the old except that the Ute mentor seems so sincere in his tale of woe that even the themore themore themore more calloused cant can't scoff scott all aU the time Listening to Ike an anyone Ike-anyone one can Its It's not exclusively for the daily dally press one press one comes to the conclusion conclusion conclusion sion that either Ike is so gloomy gloom that Gloom Gloomy Gil Dobie the Original gridiron griever is nothing but a cheap impostor or Armstrong is the nothing but football miracle man Listening to Ike ready his squad for r Wyoming is similar to hearing o ai- wool the Republican explain to his eager son why all aU little boys cant can't get to be d dent nt Its It's that tragic Confidentially if Utah cant can't beat Wyoming by three touchdowns under ider normal weather conditions the e Redskins arent aren't the team we r tJ think link Ink they are are and and we picked Utah tah to win the Big Seven grid title tie However Armstrong like the coaches and managers of all champions is on the old hot with every club marking up the Utah game date as is the red letter day on the calendar There isn't a coach in the league eague who cant can't look back on the he season as a success if his team eam although losing ever every game jame but one makes that one ono victory at the expense of ot the Utes Its It's the penalty the kingpIn kingpin king- king pIn lin always pa pays s Of course Ike is in something of a in that he really cant can't nt afford to key his boys for any ly particular contest to even up this Js psychological edge possessed by his rivals Ike has to take every ery game in stride Utah would like to see Ike whip Bunny Oakes soundly Saturday Saturday- arid and d so would Ike methinks methinks but but theres there's tJ eres ere's B BY Y U coming up the next week eek and the Cougars haven't beaten beaten the Utes in modern times Ike MUST beat B BY Y U to stay stayn I in n the running for the title but bute's buthe's buthe's hes he's e's es got to remember two important important im- im dates at Denver against the he doughty Pioneers and agaInst the powerful Colorado Buffs Juffs at Salt Lake City Those are a couple of MUST too followed b by dangerous dangerous dan- dan Utah State Stat and improving improving ing ng Colorado Any Anyone one of f these clubs could beat the Utes if the Redskins happened to o be flat fiat that afternoon and ke Ike is crossing his bridges right now nov v o on schedule but with a avary wary vary eye on the road maps for future detours So it t wasn't just a spirit pf of jest which penned the simple it item m Utah 7 Utah 0 on the dressing room blackboard Nope somebody was using on or the Utes I lIt It looks like the age of miracles isn't over yet first Ike discards his tried and true single wingback offense in favor favor of the razzle dazzle T T formation and now hes he's keeping the boys awake with mental gymnastics 1 I |