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Show Frosh-varsity go at it Friday in annual cage tiff With the demise of king football in another week, hoop dribblings are being heard on the BYU hardwoods as the Kittens prepare to do battle with their big varsity brothers in the annual Frosh-Varsity contest scheduled for Friday night, Nov. 17 at 7:30 in the fieldhouse. Over the years this annual contest has become one of the BYU basketball traditions and the Cougar Club has sponsored the game in an effort to raise money for the athletic recruitment recruit-ment fund. The teams will play two 25 minute halves and a sell-out crowd is expected. Frosh Coach Gary Ernest says that he expects to have another good team this season. Says Ernest: "We are fortunate fortun-ate to have had one of our most succesesful recruiting seasons ever." One look at some of the recruits and the collective high school records of the freshmen are indeed impressive. im-pressive. Some of the top recruits re-cruits on the roster are: Bart Johnson, a 6'5" forward from Torrance, Calif., who was all-CIF all-CIF three years and last year was selected "Player of the Year." At the beginning of his senior year he was voted to the high school Ail-American first team. Veikko Vainio, another fine Finnish import from Kotka, Finland, who played in the European games last summer with the varsity star, Kari Limo, is a top rebounder and was the leading rebounder in the games. Jim Miller, a 6'4" guard from Las Vegas was All-State three years in a row. As for the varsity, coached by veteran Stan Watts, they appear to be headed for another an-other fine season. During the past summer the team travelled trav-elled as guests of Uncle Sam in helping to spread good will, abroad through athletic competition com-petition and the team piled up a record of 24-3. |