Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-20 | Page 22 | Only the Shouting Left for CU's Hoop Champs

Only the Shouting Left For C Us U's Hoop Champs By LOUDON KELLY DENVER Feb 20 UP P jp Mr Printer Remember the headline headline headline head head- I 1940 Colorado 1940 line you set in type in 1939 and again in Clinches Big Seven Basketball Title Well you can go ahead and blow off the dust it gathered last year Because the Buffaloes undefeated ed by any intercollegiate opponent this season are sweeping toward their third championship in four years and may have it stitched up before the Ides of March If they beat Denver at Boulder tomorrow night and second place Brigham Young February 28 also in the C U field house its it's all over However the poised and confident confident confident dent young men of Colorado also intend to win their next months month's games Wyoming games Wyoming at Laramie on March 3 and Utah State at Logan March 7 and 7 and be the first Big Seven team to complete a a. conference conference conference confer confer- ence season unbeaten since Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming turned this difficult trick in 1934 under the old Rocky Mountain Mountain Mountain Moun Moun- tain conference setup Meanwhile Brigham Y You Young o u n g beaten twice in eight league contests contests contests con con- tests should pick up a little footing footing footing foot foot- ing in the battle for second place i when it tangles with Utah State I at Provo tomorrow night Wyoming's 1941 champions cant can't I be dislodged from third place since they step away from the Big I Seven race to play Greeley State I Rocky Mountain conference defending defending defending de de- deI de- I fending champion and present leader at Greeley tomorrow Utah's Redskins are the busiest of the western division teams playing Denver here tonight and Colorado State at Fort Collins tomorrow night If the Utes dont don't Improve their present fourth place position they'll finish lower down downin in the scale than at any time since the Big Seven began operations four years ago th the year that Utah tied Colorado for the title Since th then n Coach Vadal Petersons Peterson's Reds have been twice twice- and third once What makes the odds so long longin in Colorados Colorado's favor in the championship championship championship cham cham- chase is the fact that no Big Big Seven team except Wyoming ever has defeated the Buffaloes at home even when they had a afar afar afar far from powerful quintet last season Two victories this week still would leave Utah in fourth place behind Wyoming as the Utes have won four and lost four while the defending champions have won six against three defeats Greeley State may have its second second second sec sec- ond consecutive R M C crown stowed away when it meets Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming tomorrow night A triumph over over Colorado college tonight would spell success for the Greeley Greeley Greeley Gree Gree- ley Bears 4