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Show lice Eyes Big Holes v Left by Graduation This la tha first In a aerlea ef articles an prospects In Skyline Six football. By Bin Celtria Whether you're handing a football foot-ball team or a meat market, beef is important . . . and since the University Uni-versity of Utah haa huge hunks of gridiron beef the Utes will be tough for conference opposition this year. There are other Items to be considered con-sidered before awarding the Utes the championship naturally. There it the matter of getting a "brain" to direct the muscle; there is the matter of working, with some big sophomores to make them act like senior when the chip ara dowa, and there 1 the matter ol getting the break. Utah "brain" for tha last couple of years Cannon Parkinson Parkin-son won't be around this year. And ln at least a couple of poal-, tions Coach Ike Armstrong, in his 25th year as Redskin coach, will have to put his faith in sophomores. sopho-mores. They're good sophs, but like all youngsters playing their first year of college, ball, unpredictable. unpredic-table. Leel 17 Letter Mea Ike did lose 17 letter mea through one way or the other. Besides Parkinson, such stalwart as Ralph Olsen, Barnard Hafen, Clark Adams, Bob Summerhays, Bill Angelos and Gil Tobler from the great 1948 bunch ara absent kmong others. That leaves Ike without a passing pass-ing combination (Parkinson to Hafen), without hi plunger (Sum- . merhays); without a great tackle (Adams), a fine little guard (Angelos), (An-gelos), without one of the best ' defensive halfbacks around these parts (Tobler) and without his big center (Olsen). Quite a few holes to plug up. The only happy part about tha whole affair is that there are doxens of anxious individual up at the Ute practice field ready, willing and possibly able to fill op those holes in wonderful style. Talk A be at Beef To get back to this thought about beef. Conaider what might be a . fairly logical itarting lineup for Utah. At end the veteran Leo Prinster and Marv Hess would weigh in at , 178 and 188. Tackles might be Joe : Tan euro at 22S and Earl McMlnn at 202, while tha guards might be Wally Nalder at 170 and Guy Burnetti at 185. Center will be Wes Gardner, a 210-pounder. Jack Zackrison at 190 la a veteran vet-eran quarterback. Bob Matthews at 200 and Ace Allen at 175 could be the halfbacks and Herb Anderson Ander-son st 185 might be the fullback. ' ' That would put a pretty big Utah team on the field, but supposing that Wilbur Snyder took over one of the end posts with his 210 pounds. And that. Dick Folkerson replaced MrMinn at tackle and added his 230 pounds to the lineup. Lynn Cahoon and Roy McLeese might be top guards and they go 203 and 205 respectively. With Gardner at center that line would average pretty close to 210 pound. . Aaether Backfleld A backfield composed of Zaek- v rison. Matthews, Hal Tat and Arval Morris would average about 191 so It isn't difficult to see that ' the Redskin could throw lot of weight at tha opposition. About these sophomores. Gard-CoaHaaed Gard-CoaHaaed ea followhig page . UTE GRID Ceatlaued fraas preesillng page ner Is one and he Is a dnch for center. Burnett! ta another and he'll be tough to keep out of a guard slot Snyder is another and he is a great football prospect although al-though not exactly used to playing end yet Tom Dublinakl is a good looking quarterback, Dom Suko-wics Suko-wics is a chunky little halfback who makes breakaway occasionally, occasion-ally, and George Bean has speed to bum at halfback. Getting the right quarterback may be Ike's biggest problem. T-formation quarterbacks do not turn up under every bush around a campus. It Is a Job that require brains, akniful ball handling, passing pass-ing ability and even ball carrying Parkinson had 'em alL but whether any of th present Ut aspirants have remains to be seen. And If th quarterback doesn't function properly, any T-format!on sputters like the well-known old model T automobile. Could be that a transfer from Fullerton Junior college In southern south-ern California might be th on. He's Dav Cunningham and he has been looking good so far. He Isn't big, but he. can throw and handle tha balL It will be up to him and Zackrison and Dublinski to fill Parkinson's shoes and It may tak all three to do it Th Utah schedule will be rough. Sept 17 th Utes travel to Seattle for gam with the Washington Huskies, a potent Coast conference confer-ence outfit Oregon Stat college, another Coast conference team, comes to Salt Lake City for a night gam on Sept 24. Then th Redskins Red-skins go to Tucson for a gam with Arizona and return to play BYU at Utah on Oct at night Denver cornea over tor a night gam on Oct 15 and then Utah takea to tha road for game with Wyoming at Laramie on Oct 22 and Colorado at Boulder on Oct 29. Colorado A. and At. provides the home-coming day opposition on NoVi J and then th Utes travel to Lodi, CaL, for a gam with College . of the Pacific Final gam of the year will be th Thanksgiving clash, with. Utah State, j |