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Show nov. 7, 1972 signpost page 7 today's sports fan overly critical, idealistic by lynn arave What is and what should today's sports fan be like? There are millions of sports fans scattered across the nation, and each one has his own favorite basketball, football and baseball team. The fan wants his or her own team to win every game, and to heck with the other teams. Today's sports fan is much more critical than he was only a few years ago. He is generally better-educated with most of the major rules governing each particular sport. But he experiences a real let down after his team loses. Believe it or not, some fans even cry after their team looses, as though it were the end of the world or something really terrible. He expects his team to win every game, while he usually doesn't seem to realize that the opposition that his team faces is really tough. For example, no team can go harriers run past usu, isuf ceu Second, third, fourth, seventh, and ninth equals 25 points. That was the order of finish and point total that enabled the Weber State College cross country team to win the team title at the Utah State Invitational Cross Country Meet held Friday in Logan. Weber's 25 total points gave them a seven point margin of victory over second place Idaho State University which had 32 points, followed by Utah State University with 65, while the College of Eastern Utah trailed with 107 points. The meet was staged at the Logan Golf Course and was run over a hilly five mile route. The victory not only gave the Weber thinclads the team trophy, but also proved that the 'cats upset victory over Idaho State a week earlier hadn't just been a "fluke" as the Wildcats out ran the Bengals again. Idaho State's Vince Capell won first place in the race as he clocked a 26:25 mile lime to easily defeat Weber's Al Yard-ley who was timed in 26:54. Yardley ran his hardest, but didn't have a good day as he faded in the last two miles. Following Yardley across the finish line were Weber Harriers Dan Dean and Jerry Miller who took third and fourth places respectively. Idaho State took the next two places followed by Weber freshman Lynn Strong in seventh and Dan Price in ninth places. Other Weber State runners placing were Dan Walker tenth, Scott Steel thirteenth, Gary Harris sixteenth, Lynn Arave eighteenth, Pat Bennett twenty-third and Larry Thorderson twenty-eighth place. Mike Hein didn't run in the race as he has a knee injury. Weber's cross country coach Chick Hislop noted that the victory was most certainly a great one, but over-all, he said that it was his runners poorest team showing of the season. Coach Hislop was refering to Al Yard-ley losing to Capell by 29 seconds, Larry Thorderson's side ache that caused him to take only 28th place out of 39 runners and the slow times clocked by the entire team over the five mile course. The Cross Couatry team's next meet will be the all-important Big Sky Conference Meet to be held this Saturday in Flagstaff, Arizona. men's race on tap tomorrow The Men's Intramural Association will sponsor their annual cross crounty race tomorrow at 2 p.m. All entries will proceed on the following course: beginning at the Mount Ogden Park tennis courts, the runners will proceed down Taylor to Broughton, from Broughton down to Polk, and along Polk to 36th Street. The course continues up 36th Street to the college campus, and up from the Technical Building to the stadium parking lot. No entries are needed, as rosters will be available to all participants before the race is started. I BLACKSCHOLARS) UNITED 1 Are having a Dance 1 1 Sat. Nov. 18, ( 1 8-12 pm C U. B. BALLROOM f C $1.00 per person $1.50 per couple l A mencan PHONE 399-1151 At 36th & Harrison (Between Smith's KOOD KING & FASHION FABRICS) Convenient Free Parkine. or Prescription Delivery jt No Additional Cost 10 DISCOUNT TO ALL WEBER STATE COLLEGE STUDENTS, ON EVERYTHING BUT SALES AND SPECIALS. Prescriptions Film and Film Developing Health Foods and Natural Vitamins Available Skin Care Products Open from 9 am to 9 pm undefeated for long in the National Basketball Association. In fact, the longest winning streak ever in the NBA, which is also the longest in prosports, is only 33 games. Any pro basketball or baseball team can whip any other team on a given day, and pro football is rapidly becoming the same. No team can win all of their games all of the time. Today's sports fan must learn to re member that the essence of all sports is that they are to be enjoyed.No sports fan should leave a game "burned" out. He should have more of a realistic view, than an idealistic view about sports. Every fan should also realize that each athlete tries his hardest to play his best. If a team looses, then it's the athlete who should be crying -- not the fan. Each fan should learn to just enjoy the game as a form of entertainment. If he has picked a losing team to support, then he should hope and cheer all the harder and not give up, because there's always a next season. Sports are games -- not wars that have to be won in order to survive. mm Leave January 5th for a half year of study abroad! n ,j PH.,pnt re j 1(J make o discuss ab 1 F OOP) p: Ph ' i AY ! rJ:'iNkr-. V- .3946 JV 1 n mfc You can be leaving for VqHs Zaitfmi Madrid Jerusalem on an unbelievable six months of study abroad." Not only will you spend four and a half months in the residence center of your choice, but you'll spend eight days in each of the other centers. All for as little as $800 more than is normally spent for a semester and term on the Provo Campus. Ask about our new pay-as-you-go plan! CHOOSE FROM 130 CLASSES IN 15 DEPARTMENTS Art Literature Music Archaeology Anthropology Political Science Humanities Physical Education History Sociology Earn up to 24 hours of academic credit French German Spanish Hebrew Religion We invite you to attend a STUDY ABROAD SEMINAR Meet, program directors, view a quick slidetape presentation and visit with former student participants. WEDNESDAY NOV. 8th 11:00 A.M. - NOON and 1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. High Council Room INSTITUTE OF RELIGION BiefllSIBIUM 3 9 ROOM 202 HRCB - PROVO, UTAH The World is truly our campus. |