Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-02-16 | Page 14 | Utes Given Little Chance at C. U.

y?HS DTOsI UTTLE (MKKDE AT . (U) i Ten Cagers Included in TravelTeam By BOX MoCflEA Given little chance to defeat th powerful Colorado "U" quintet, but favorites over Colorado State, tan. Ute baaketeers will leave for Boulder Boul-der Thursday night on their second and last eastern Invasion of ths Big Seven conference cesaba campaign. cam-paign. Those boy from Boulder are gunning for us and especially to MerUa Ahlqulst," Coach Vadal Peterson said Thursday, "tort w hop to gtv Uieen a real battle 1 and then, too, lemorober we play them a return engagement ka Bait Lake aty rehrnary M. The ten cagrs to make th Jaunt Include Ahlqulst and Openshaw, eenUrs; Nick Wstts. Harry Empey, Allen Layton and Waynard Lowe, forwards; Captain Jack Hardy, Bob Mslroy, Hugh Bird and B1U Johnson, John-son, guards. Frees Leak (rood Th freihman team, which Is perhaps per-haps one of the best to sver cavort at the hilltop school, gave the varsity var-sity a tough scrimmage against C U. screened formations In Wed-nssdsy Wed-nssdsy night's workout and big Vaughan Bennlon, former Granite atar, was pouring the ball through the hoop with great -regularity. - The Utes are not going to Colorado Colo-rado with any defeatist attitude. All players ar oogniiant that ths Burrs are a tougn team, but ue a. T. U. proved they are not Invincible. Invin-cible. No conference team, however, how-ever, and only one outside foe, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, has svsr dsfsatsd ths Boul-derltes Boul-derltes on their horns floor. Hopes ars considerably brighter for a Utah victory Saturday night, when they move over to Fort Col-Una Col-Una to sngags ths cellar dwelling Colorado Stats mschins, which until un-til last week had failed to win a gams. Must Gala Split To remain In sscond place ths Utee must gain at least a split ssrlss, but should either Utah State or Wyoming win both games this wsek, ths outfit turning In dhe double dou-ble victory will move ahead of the Redskins. One tough break for the C V. team earn this wsek In th death of Matt Strannlaan, father of the ball-hawking Bill Strannlgan. The Rock Springs flash will be Lost to the squad for a week or ten days, according t Coach Frosty Cos, Colorado has only two mors games on Its scheduls after the Ute encounter, playing here February 14 and closing ths season against ths Wyoming Cowboys March 4 in Lara-mis.