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Show !EL ROMNEY BACK WITH' 'Y' STAR FORWARD IS READY FOR AGGIESERIES Cougar Hopes Riaa a Scoring Scor-ing Act Show Old-Time Form in Workout By MAURICE A. JONES PROVQ, Jan. 25 Elwood Romney, clever Brigham Young university for ward, will b In the atarting lineup whan th Cougara meet Utah Aggiei at Logan Friday and Saturday. Romney Injured hla knee In a practice prac-tice lilt with th Olson Swedes three week ago and waa unable to play in the Utah or Montana State series. se-ries. However, ha haa been hobbling about ehootlng bes-keta bes-keta during the peat week, and laat night demonatrat-ad demonatrat-ad the fact that h . Lr. rl has lost none of th gj smaey old form. During th It minutes thst he psrtlcipsted in a prscUc gem with th Power Shoe teem of Lehi he tallied seven basket to tske indlvldusl scoring honors of the frscaa, which was won by the Cougars, 70 to 34. JOHNSON. BALL IMPROVE Captsin Byron Nelson probsbly will atart at ths other forwsrd position, slthough Cosch Romney declsred thst he msy chsnge his mind st th last moment and give Joe Johnson snd Whit Bsll ths nod, Instesd of th two vstersns. Johnson snd Bsll hsv dls-plsyed dls-plsyed consldereble promise th past week and ar improving rapidly. George Gourley la by no means out of th picture Th former P. G. ace was brilliant in the few moments thst hs participated in Tuesday's tussle. Emerson McOmber will continue to hold down th pivot position and It seems that Jay Whitman la s fixture st gusrd. Tuesdsy's plsy Indlcsted thst Jim Hunter will complete th Cougsr quintet in pise of Mslcolm L Sueur. Although Le Sueur is s "scrspper" snd sn excellent defensive filerer, besides having led th seor-ng seor-ng of th guards In ths western division divi-sion race last yssr, his passing has been erratic this year. For thia res-son, res-son, and the fact that Hunter Is an excellent shot th Utter will atart EXPECT TOUGH BATTLES Although th Cougars ar out to tak two games from the Farmers, they ar anticipating strenuous bst-ties bst-ties both nights, ss th Agglss will be fighting with their backs to th wall and In their own gym, where they ar at their best Another strenuous workout is slsted for th Cougars tonight Thursday they will taper off, and leave for Logan early Friday morning. Campbell's Appearance Friday Still Doubtful LOGAN, Jan. IS Th Fsrmert' beskstbsll stock took a sudden drop when II was definitely learned Tuesday Tues-day that big Everett Campbell, captain cap-tain snd center as well aa leading scorer, would be out of practice at least until Thursday night, and It It questionable whether he will b able to get Into the game at all. His snkls, at first feared broken in practice Monday night was only sprslned, sn X-rsy revealed Tuesday, Tues-day, but nevertheless It takes plenty of time to recover from a bad ankle. It Is responding well to treatment, however, and while others ar pessimistic,- th big fellow himself expects ex-pects to be rsrin' to go by Frldsy night Coscb Romney storied Marvin Pugh at center Tuesdsy night Instesd In-stesd of Walter Wood, as' generally expected. Wood got bis chance against Utah last week and while he held up fairly well, he faljed to fit Into the Aggie combination. Pugh ia a lanky, hard working youngster from Arlsona and may make the grade. He has a tough Job ahead of him. however. In filling the shoes of Captain Campbell. The Aggie mentor la particularly heartened by the return to form of Conley Wstts. This youngster, hailed ss on of th best of the Junior college col-lege crop last year, really started to play laat Saturday night In Salt Lake for th first time this year. Romney la hoping he can hold the pace this comino week-end. In practice. Watts and Cleo Petty are burning 'em up plenty. The Cougars will need a high-powered defense to stop these two once they get started. Another thing that the Farmers are counting on it for Wsrren Alsop, (usrd. to break loos. Alsop Is playing play-ing th fourth year of a colorful career. Hi plav thus far has not been up to standard, but he usually manage to hit top form against the Cougars Providing F.I Romner gets In th gsm for th Cougars, sn old rivalry that hat kept the two occu-nled occu-nled durine four years of college basketball bas-ketball will be revived. |