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Show Utes Come From Behind To Defeat Bears, 41 -39 Val Sheffield Helps Redskins Win Tenth Straight T pally sent them ahead, 33-34, with only three mlnutei to play. Val Sheffield, one of the bright eat potential atari ta twinkle on Utah caaaba courta In aome time, then came through with a one-handed one-handed puah ahot from the aide to give the Utea the lead, but John McOee split the net for the In-vadere In-vadere and Utah hopea dropped aeveral degrees. With lesa than two minutes to play. Deb Smith took the mellon near the foul circle on the dead run and popped In a one-hander to put the Ulei ahead for the final time. Just to make It definite, Sheffield atole a frantic California pan and dribbled the length of the floor to clinch the verdict, a basket Aggies Turn Back St. Mary's in First Game By JOHN MOONEY Just when California' height appeared ap-peared to have teamed up with the law of averagea to atop tha Utea (or tha first time in 10 games, the valiant Redskins Tuesday turned on a home-stretch burst or power to capture their tenth straight victory vic-tory and bring their fleldhouaa dedication program to a happy ending. The final score was Utah 41, California 39. Previously, the Utah Agglea had nosed out the St. Mary s cagers 41-32 to make the evening a complete com-plete success for the Beehive state quintets. Utah took tha measure of St. Mary's Monday night at Logan In the Aggie dedication program pro-gram wie the- Aririee were slaughtering a below-par California Califor-nia fiva in tha second contest. Maay Fas Tuned Away .. , Iff - AS - Waynard Lowe . . . This I tavh resexvs played big part la turning- back California 41-1 in the feature game la tha aew Redskin fleldhousev opponents to 340 point for a 34-polnt-a-game average. Ahead at Half California opened the scoring on a foul pitch, but the Utes came back to take a short-lived lead and the battle was on. Maurice Watts and Vaughan Bennion sparked the early attack, which gave the Utes a 24-18 lead at the intermission. In the second period, however, the Golden Bears began to really how some of their class which had stamped them as one of the better clubs on the west coast and aeveral aev-eral times pulled up even with the Utea. Most of the action of the evening, eve-ning, yea, of tha dedicatory series, was crammed into the last 10 minutes min-utes of the final game. Bill Ogil-vie Ogil-vie led an assault on the Redskin hoop which brought the Bears up to within five points of the Utes, and then Ogilvie went out on fouls. Bean Ferga Ahead Seeming ta take heart, even In the face of this great loss, the Bears came surging back and two quick baskets by Johnny Biles fi- which nullified a desperate laat-minute laat-minute basket by the Bears. Utah was not quite at its best Tuesday night, partly because its shots were not clicking quite aa sensationally as usual and partly because California clamped a pretty pret-ty sticky version of a tight zona .defense on the Redskins, particularly particu-larly under the basket, where Vaughan Bennion has been wont to cavort, to the dismay of enemy defense men. Watts was especially cold In his shooting In the second half, although al-though both teams saw very Important Im-portant scores lost as the ball whirled around Inside the hoop and then flew out without counting. count-ing. It was the sophomore, Sheffield, from Davis high, who steadied tha Utes In their late panic when tha game was In the fire, for, besides dropping In 10 points In the last half, he sparkled on defense and contributed a total of 14 points to the Utah victory. The Utes will leave Thursday night for Denver, where they will open their Big Seven conference race against the Pioneers Friday. The Redskins will also meet Wyoming Wyo-ming at Laramie Saturday night on the trip. In the first game of the eve- ConHnud on tht Following P Both California teams played an Improved brand of ball Tuesday night and the sell-out crowd of over 4800 the largest crowd ever to attend a basketball game in the state witnessed two colorful contests. con-tests. When tha university authorities finally hung the S. R. O. sign on tha ticket windows, there still were a couple of thousand fans clamoring for admittance and tha standing-room-only places were gobbled up Immediately, with mora than a thousand fans turned away. The 1230,000 fleldhouse, constructed con-structed with tha boast that UNow we'll have room for all who want to see a basketball game," was a huge aucceaa except that many fans couldn't Jam their way Into the aeatlnc capacity which was planned to accommodate about 4100. Fortunately, however, there is ample space to provide mora seats. In winning their tenth straight game, tha Utea closed their preseason pre-season schedule with victories over Weber junior college, Idaho university uni-versity southern, Oregon State (two), Nebraska, Omaha, Wayne, Chicago, St. Mary's and California. The Utea scored 500 points for a 50-polnt-a-game average and held Hera's part ef tha overflow crowd af aver 4SM fans wfce attended tha Utah fleldhouse dedication games and ceremonies Tuesday night. Although tha ficldheuse held tha largest basketball crowd 1" tha history af tha Beehive . state, mora than a thausand fans wara turned away, and svaa standing; roam tickets were at a premium. In tha above picture the rival captains, Bay Lhadsjuist of tho Aggies and Tom Feasor of tho Gaels are.snapped fighting for tho ball under tho basket, Llndauist (No. ) cam -tip with tho baU finally and tha Aggies weat em to whs, 41-J over tho SI Mary's quintet. i " i Thsro wore soase tease snosaeats oa the Utah beach Tuesday night as the California five took a aae paint load with leas than twa miau tea te play la the feature game of the dedication program at the Utah fleldhouse. From left to right, Melty Atklnsea and Vaughan Bennion, Utah players, and Coaches Vadal retenea aad Fete Couch watch the progress of the game . With anxious eyes as the Bears swoea down tho floor for aaother aertia an tha Utah sum. X'A a H ,i n I I. ' ' ,-. Bill Ogilvie (No. 12) leaps la the air to drop la aaother basket against tha Utah Bedskias la their laterseetieaal basketball tilt Tuesday night. Yaughaa Beaaioa (No. St) aad Val Sheffield (No. 21) wore fighting for the ball aad ready for a rebound re-bound la case the shot went awry. Despite the tW-wsrlr W Ogilvie aad his CatsfssnaW tossaesnassa, the Utos 1 freea behind la tha lass raw ssienutos to wea the gessas, U-U, beaosw isgsitoy aaaard. y i Redskins Rally To Beat Bears tOsaUaaai Trm Free Ilea o nlng, tha Utah Agglaa outlasted a game but outclassed St. Mary's craw in game which would have been a awell exhibition of basketball basket-ball except for the outstanding game which followed. Both tha Agree and tha Gaels antnud ta hava shaaen. oft aomt , of the lethargy which handicapped their early season play, and, except ex-cept for spells when the officials held the center of the stage with their. "Whistle While You Work" tactics, tha tilt was vary Inter-eating. Inter-eating. After trailing 22-15 at tha half. Coach Dick Romney'a veteran crew finally caught fire and was moving mov-ing away at the finish. Floyd Morris Mor-ris almost personally conducted the Aggiea to their second victory In a row over tha coast representatives representa-tives aa ha monopolised the scoring In the aeeond half and piled up a total of 18 points to lead the Morris dropped In five baaket In a row midway In the second half to snare the victory for the Logan crew. Close officiating which often hit on the ridiculous featured the last five minute of play aa the officials alternated In leading processions pro-cessions to the opposing foul lines. Jack Otten, acting St. Mary's coach, expressed surprise at the fussy officiating handed out In the last few minutes and tha majority ma-jority of tha tana voiced verbal agreement with him. The Aggies open thalr Big Seven play Friday night at Logan against tha Colorado Buffs, defending champions and a strong favorite ta repeat this year. |
