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Show Ute Redskins Seen As Contender for l BigSeven Grown I , : , I By BILL M'CREA Utah may or may not win the "Big Seven" basketball championship, cham-pionship, but if the Redskins aren't up among the first three teams I before the season is over, then we'll have to consult different palm- . ist, or get new pair of glasses. The Redskins have been practicing prac-ticing for two weeks. Retting a much earlier start than they usually do. and Coach Vadal Peterson has a rugged, experienced squad of bas-keteers. bas-keteers. Only three player are missing frmn Inst year's tain which tied Montana State for the western division title, losing later in m playoff game at Dillon, Mont, They are Harold Miller, forward; Orlo ( hilds, renter, and Unas Mccham, guard. Lettermen already back In the harness are Cocaptains Stew Pendleton Pen-dleton and Bill Nielsen. Verl Wilde and Harry Empey, forwards; Merlin Mer-lin Ahlquist and Howard Berg, centers; cen-ters; Bom MuUca. Perry Wilson and Jack Hardy, guards. Musky Guards Then to supplement these players are Pete Bogden and Tux Treseder, a couple of husky guards. Treseder was an outfielder with the Magna ball club last summer, champions of the Industrial circuit. Bill Grusonick from Billings, Mont.: R. D. Swain from South Dakota, Da-kota, and Hugh Bird from Snow junior college are a trio of better than average forward material. Louis Carr and Maurice Watts round out the list of forwards, and Dick Palmer is a candidate for Merlin Ahlquist . . . He's No. 1 choice to hold down center berth on 1938 I'tah basketball team. center. Palmer, known to his teammates as "Screwball." is the tallest player on the Ute team with his approximate approxi-mate six-foot-five-inch stature. Berg and Ahlquist are well over six feet tall, too. It's much too early In the season to figure out the Lie starting lineup, line-up, but Coach Peterson hopes this year's product will bet more of a ''squad team," meaning that when he substitutes the lineup will not be materially weakened. Bob Muliea Is a cinch for one guard post. Not only is the former Idahoan good on defense, but he was well up among the top guards in scoring last season. A long shooter shoot-er de luxe is Mr. Mulica and when he gets hot, it's poison for opponents. oppo-nents. Ahlquist at Center Teaming with Mulica will probably prob-ably be young Wilson, who made a tremendous advancement last season. sea-son. Ahlquist is now in the No. 1 hole for center, with Berg and Palmer Pal-mer in reserve. Cocaptains Nielsen fContlnutd on Following Pigt) Ute Hoop Outlook Fairly Optimistic (Continued from FrrrpftlriR Patf) and Pendleton are the most likely j tarter at forward. Colorado U," with Byron "Whlx-zer" "Whlx-zer" White of all-America football ' fame, and Wyoming loom a the strongest teams on the eastern iide of the newly organised Mountain States conference. Utah's preseason schedule opens Saturday night at Pocatello when the Braves encounter the Bengali from Idaho Southern. The remainder of the preseason state follows: December 20. Hastings college at Salt I-Hke City; Iecember 33 and 23. Idalfo university at Salt Lake Cty; December 30, Northern Illinois Illi-nois State Teachers at IeKalb, III.; January 4, Bradley at Peoria, III.; January 6, IoyoWi at Chicago, and January 8, Hastings college at Hastings, Hast-ings, Neb. |
