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Show Utes Flaunt Big Seven Title Hopes Before Buffs and Sellout Crowd As Is !wiy th cut with eol-lege eol-lege athlete before crucial gam, the Utes played about their poor-cat poor-cat ball of the season In their short practice Wednesday. L ! By JOHN MOONEY Knowing that their dreams of a successful basketball season, which started brilliantly with 13 straight wins, may be realized or Shattered Shat-tered by one game, Utah's title-conscious title-conscious Redskins Thursday were prepared to shoot the works against Colorado Saturday night before a sell-out crowd In the lite fleldhouse. Of the 360 general admission eats placed on sale Wednesday, none are left, according to Theron 8. Parmelee, graduate manager of Utah athletics. About 500 general admission seats will be available Saturday before gams time. The exact number of these Saturday Sat-urday seats cannot be announced until the additional bleachers ar- rive la Salt Lake City i attle. Parmelee expects the new eats to reach here either late Friday Fri-day or early Saturday In plenty of Urn for their Installation before be-fore the game. Game time Saturday has been set at p. m., but a freshman In-trasquad In-trasquad contest will open the fea- tivlUee at 6:30. Doors to the spacious spa-cious fleldhouse will open at t:30 in order to care lor the fans who are expected to Jam the foyer to purchase general admission seats, i Melly (Malay) AUdasea . . . Tale fcrmer Graalto prep star aaay get els first storting eaaaea aa a Ute Saturday night against Colorado. The agile redhead at a guard. While Coach Vadal Peterson appeared ap-peared alarmed over the slump of his boys, observers were almost glsd to see the change from a smooth-passing combination to a ragged-passing bunch of boys, this early in the week. Even Peterson, after his gloom had subsided somewhat, was Inclined In-clined to take a cheerful look at the picture. Said Vadal: "I guess we got off to a pretty bad start tonight, what with everything every-thing seeming to hsppen to delay us . . . We looked just like we did against Idaho Southern In our first fame of the year over two months ago .. . . I have Just one consolation, though; we can't bs as bad as we played out there tonight . . . However, If we do come hack, and I think the kids will. It's liable to be a whale of ball gams. Seas Chaaee to Win "If we're eald and Colorado's hot, the game will be a massacre for ua, but, by the same token. If we're really clicking like we have been at times this year, Colorado's going to take a whipping If the Buffa are off at all. "If both teams are hot, watch out, because you'U probably see more basketball la 40 sslautos than you've aeea all this year . . . Even If both clubs are eft. It will be a good ball game. The regular evening Unep el Vaughan Benntoa, center; Maurice (Nick) Watta and Val Sheffield, forwards, and Bill Johnson and Deb Smith, guards, la very likely to start against C U. . However, Peterson has been known to pull strange things cut of his hat and sleeves at times like this, and It la a cinch If "Pete" thinks a change will boost the Utah chances of beating Colorado, he might even ope the game with Trainer Elnar Nellson at right forward. Alternates Mea Just to keep all the first team men guessing, Peterson has been using Wsynard (Doc) Lowe at center and Melly (Noisy) Atkinson at guard a lot In this week's drills, while dropping Bennlon and Bill Johnson back to reserve roles. Saturday night has been designated desig-nated as a dsy of reckoning for the Buffs. It has to be, tor If Utah drops another game, the basketball bas-ketball title must almost be certain cer-tain to float away from Salt Lake City, but the same applies also to C. U. Both quintets must win, but only one can, so It should be a whale of a ball game. |