Show Leading Coach Starts 29th Hoop Season Tuesday marks the debut of the 1964 Utah basketball team with the annual Freshman-Varsity clash. Coach Jack Gardner will take the floor to guide the varsity and begin his 29th year of coaching. The Ol' Fox broke the 500 . mark early last season and has now won 511 games while losing los-ing only 207 and is one of the winningest coaches in basketball. basket-ball. Gardner won six Skyline conference con-ference championships and led the Utes to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament in 1961. He has conducted clinics all over the world for the state department de-partment and was picked to coach one of the teams in the Olympic tryouts. MILK BOTTLE Jack has traditionally tra-ditionally been the biggest asset to Utah basketball as was shown by the phenomenal success of an otherwise mediocre Ute hoop five last year. He finished the year 19-9 and came within a hair of winning the Holiday Festival in New York. Gardner is one of the most colorful figures in college athletics ath-letics and is known and respected re-spected throughout the national ranks as a leading authority on how to win at basketball. |