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Show Romney Shifts Aggies in Preparation For Crucial Grid Battle With Cougars LOGAN, Nov. 9 With Seth Maughan scratched from the Aggie Ag-gie roster for the crucial Armistice Armi-stice day grid battle between the title-seeking Brigham Young Cougars and Coach Dirk Rom-ney's Rom-ney's Utah Slate Aggie eleven, a shift sending little Melvln Manning, Man-ning, former all-state quarter-bark quarter-bark from Bear River high, to the second team quarterback post, had been made at the Aggie camp. Seth Maughan reinjured his foot at Idaho, but the injury was thought not to be serious. How-f ever. It Irritated -the foot, and Maughan has been absent from practice all week. His cousin, Murray, pulled In Wednesday night with a bad shoulder bruise and complained enough that it is possible that Austtln -Clipper" Hughes, former Davis high star, may open the ball game at center. cen-ter. Throughout the week Romney has been drilling the Aggie eleven on several new plays which he hopes will work sgainst the Cougars. Cou-gars. Included in the new plays were a couple which feature big Lawrence Slater, Aggie fullback, lugging the pigskin. In every game this season Slater has won plaudits of opposing oppos-ing coaches for his brilliant work at backing up the Aggie line. Undoubtedly, Un-doubtedly, he is without a peer on defense, but it Is at the offensive of-fensive post that the big fellow falls down. The Aggies are expecting a ball game like the one they played last year at Provo and are preparing pre-paring every detail for the encounter. en-counter. Romney has been working work-ing with his reserves, so evidently evident-ly he plans to have every available avail-able man ready for the clash. k |