Show r Cougars Pioneers Pull for Utah State F Ton f. farmers Hope I To The 0 Lee League Race ce ceBy By Bill Coltrin I i If the thc combined hope of three of of the schools of the Skyline Six can help any ny Utah State will beat Wyoming Monday night In to Logan Everyone practically is agin ngin the Cowboys for that one Utah I State naturally wants to win it i just because it is nice to win but I also because a victory would leave the with a faint hope of the conference title But bad as Utah State wants to win it it the Aggles dont don't want a n Utah State victory any more than does Brigham Young university or Denver On Monday night though Denver will have its hands full itself being forced to go to Fort Collins for a game with the Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo- Colo rado A. A M. M Rams B Y U meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile mean- mean while can rest up Cowboys Con Must Lose Io With four teams left in the running mathematically at least for the conference crown naturally naturally naturally ally everyone outside of Wyoming is hoping that Wyoming gets beat early and often Otherwise the I Cowboys are arc in with only three losses against them an and seven I games to play Last week end the Cougars of I Brigham Young Young- just about eased cased themselves out of title consideration tion by losing a game to Utah but they snapped back to take a second second second sec sec- ond one with Utah by a 56 16 score Utah State lost a tough one oneto oneto oneto to Wyoming 12 48 as the Cowboys took advantage of 35 fouls called on Utah State to rack up 28 points at the free throw line Denver is in a good spot to re replace replace replace re- re place Wyoming at the top of the heap except for one thing thing all all the Denver games remaining are areaway areaway areaway away from home The Pioneers must play two at Laramie two at Logan one at SpringVille and the theone theone theone one Monday night at Fort Collins The Thc Pioneers have lost only four right now but that is a rocky road ahead gs s es s. s Cats Key games this week end here herein in Utah is the Aggie vs s Cougar series Friday night at Logan Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- night at Springville A double double double dou dou- ble victory by either team will leave that team still in the race but a split probably will end all hopes that the title will come west of the University of Utah's Redskins I near the end of their season play Colorado A. A M twice ice on the I Ute floor th this s Friday and Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day and a split should assure the I Utes that they'll finish out of the cellar So far Utah has won f five ve conference games the Rams only two At Springville last Saturday night the Cougars looked like champs again after looking like I chumps Friday night in Salt Lake City With Joe Nelson Mel Hutchins Hutch- Hutch ins and Roland Poland Minson tanking the buckets and with Jack Whipple Whippie Whipple Whip- Whip pie and Jerry Romney playing sterling games in back court the Cougars couldn't be denied and at atone atone atone one time had a 42 21 lead before Glen Smith got hot for Utah to bring the score up to a respectable respectable respectable respect respect- able 10 point difference Five Tou Tough h Ones The Cats have lost six ball games and if they can get over that one Friday in Logan they'll be in a pretty fair spot since they play out their last four games in Springville one Springville-one one with Utah State two with Wyoming then Ulen one with Denver I And if Utah State could get over Wyoming Monday night the will be just about as well off with only the Ule Springville game left away from home After this week the stay at home to play one with Colorado A. A M. M and two with Denver |