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Show MdskinGLiddeiager To Get Hands on White; 20,000 Crowd Forecast By BILL McCREA Only once beore in University of Utah football history has a coming game captured the fancy of Mr. and Mrs. Gridiron Fan to equal the genuine pep and enthusiasm that precedes Saturday's clash with undefeated Colorado "IT in the Ute stadium. . Two short year ago wnen Oregon Ore-gon celebrated Utah's homecoming. record crowd of 21,000 turned out and Unless all signs deceive and tr-t "'' "'Han rigbt-about-fac, Saturday's crowd may not be far from this figure, according to "U" athletic moguls. The Ute-Buffalo game is 'football 'foot-ball natural" If there ever was one In the Rocky Mountain conference confer-ence and the fact that the Redskins have suffered reversals re-versals in a non-conference non-conference game with Idaho and a conference tilt with Denver has i ' J punts and ran them back for touchdowns touch-downs has given half a dosen Ute linemen "itchy hands" Just to get hold of the "Whiszer." r"ftoh Armtrng yOUld five a ift this week if he had a punter of A-l caliber, one who can plant those all-important coffin corner kicks when occasion demands. Paul Snow and Milt Mecham have been training all week on sideline punts, but they still have much room for improvement. Utah may be expected to take to the air on numerous occasions against the Buffalos. as five of their seven touchdowns this season have come via the aerials to lanky Paul McOonough and Bruce Balk in, ends. Utah Heavier The Redskins' line will outweigh the Buffalo first string forward wall by eight or nine pounds per man. Colorado's second string line is nearer the match of Utah's in weight. Gene Moore, Buffalo all-conference all-conference center candidate, is the only 200-pounder on the starting Buffalo line. Utah's Schleckman, Luke Pap-pas, Pap-pas, Tom Todd, Dewey Gunn, Paul McDonough are all over the 200-pound 200-pound mark. The Utea will conclude heavy practice Thursday night with only a skull drill scheduled Friday. C. U. has slated a workout on the stadium turf Friday afternoon, the team being acheduled to arrive in the morning at 7:33 o'clock via Union Pacific. The student special carrying the Buffalo 80-piece .band and several hundred students will arrive Saturday Sat-urday morning. Many other Colo-radoans Colo-radoans are traveling by automobile. not lessened the Pappaa Interest. Steeped in tradition of 2 years' standing and coupled with the fact that the Buffalos have turned the trick on the Braves for the put three seasons, has placed Utah in a dandy psychological place to upset up-set the team from Boulder. Contrary to what some fans think, there is no defeatist attitude atti-tude In the Ute tepee this week. The entire team from Captain Karl Schleckman to the fifth string end are determined to prove to Coach Ike Armstrong and Ute followers that a team which won't be beat cant be beat. "Watch White" The fact that Byron "Whiiser" White literally made monkeys out of some of the Ute gridders last year in Boulder as he coyly caught |