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Show Injuries Take Heavy Toll of Redskins Gardner to Miss Cougar Contest By Jack Schroeder Coach Ike Armstrong still Is being plagued by incessant Injuries In-juries that seem destined to make his once-rosy outlook for the upcoming up-coming B Y U clash Saturday night now a bleak one. Wes Gardner Is a cinch to miss this game, and it's not certain Just how many more. The leg on the big sophomore center that was Injured a week or so sgo has failed - to come around and he's still missing from practice. Aa If this weren't enough, the Utes had to come up with other injuries, such as a badly injured shoulder and neck on end Grant Martin that may keep the wlng-man wlng-man out of action for a considerable consider-able time. Others Injured Then, too, the Redskins are being menaced by superficial hurts, such as a slightly sprained ankle on fullback Herb Anderson, a leg Injury to chunky Bob Matthews, and other distreaaing setbacks. Despite all this wave of injuriea, the Utea took no heed and only set their sights on the upcoming clash with the rapidly Improving Cougars Saturday. night , University of Utah stadium. For one thing, masterminds of ! the Redskin grid fortunes worked the squad well Into the darkening hours of Wednesday night on al- i most everything that a football i iteam should know. It was one of Ithe longer drills that Ike has had I this season and the last really : rugged one prior to the big battle. I It will be the opener of the Sky-'line Sky-'line Six conference for the Utes j and should provide a lot of timber for further figuring in the Mountain Moun-tain 8tstes grid circuit. Should Ithe Cougars pull an upset here, lit would all but knock the Red-iskins Red-iskins out of contention for Skyline j honors. Both teams will be seeking the lnitial victory of the season. The Cougars have dropped three successive suc-cessive gamea, to Texaa Western, Pacific Fleet Destroyers snd San Jose State. However, with each encounter they have ahown growing grow-ing signs of vast Improvement. Tie Third Utah's eleven hss taken a different dif-ferent pattern. The Redskins dropped a thriller by 14-7 to a tough University of Washington club in the season opener st Seattle. This stand against the Huskies brought up the Ute stock. However, the next time the Skins fell apart before Oregon State 27-7. And the last game was a 12-12 tie by the University at artmnSi Despite the fact that neither club haa won a game, an antici- pated crowd of 20,000 will Jam Its way Into the University of Utah , tadium Saturday to witness thel clash. -J " .... -"r : it r$K 7 7 Wolves Seek i; fl Revenge v From Army V By Ken Opatela CHICAGO, Oct (INS) The t " nation's number one football ame Michigan versus Army r -"". las become sandwiched and al- nost lost among the excitment of f V. ase ball's world series. For Michigan football coaches, X yl lowever, Saturday la the day for ' s -avenge the day they intend to ollect a three-year-old debt , 1 rhat's how long It has been since ' he Wolverines and the Cadets hashed upon the gridiron. ' ' The West Point aggregation is he only team on the Michigan ehedule which holds an advantage advant-age over the men from Ann krbor. The two have played only wire and Army won 28 to 7 and . ....... Tr1bun-Teeenia Pivot BetUMU Tate Due for Action Hal Tat, blond -haired right halfback for the University of Utah Is due to ae plenty of artloa against B Y U's Cougars Saturday. |