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Show Ravaged Utags Regroup Broken Forces, Seek Revenge In Traditional Melee Curinga jammed a thumb against Idaho last week and it is doubtful that he will see any offensive of-fensive action. Edwards and Eric Maughan, reserve tailback have been carrying the brunt of the load. The Aggie line will outweigh the Utes as all opponent lines have. Jack Hannum, Ag co-captain and leading pass receiver, suffered a shoulder separation against Idaho and will probably miss the Utah battle. Br h ft A J State as week by week the injury in-jury list grew and valuable assets as-sets to the powerful USU grid squad fell by the wayside. At the first of the year Curinga, Cur-inga, Marv Kendrick, Roy Shivers Shiv-ers and Craig Murray were the starters in the fine Aggie back-field. back-field. Saturday not one of these four are expected to start. Kendrick Ken-drick was out after the first game and has not been back since. Shivers, Knapp's secret weapon and speedy tailback was hurt several weeks ago and there is some speculation he might be playing in his first game in five Saturday, but it is doubtful. Murray is also on the "maybe" "may-be" list but Grant Martinsen is waiting to fill the spot for the second straight week; Tony Knapp, head coach at USU, will bring a broken football foot-ball squad into Ute Stadium with one goal: revenge for last year's upset Redskin victory. By REECE STEIN Chronicl. Sports Editor Traditional rivalries are strange and unpredictable things when it comes to football. All over the nation this week end and on Thanksgiving Day college grid teams who have been battling bat-tling for years will meet again. And Utah is no exception when it comes to tradition. Although Al-though the Thanksgiving Day game has been unhappily cast aside in favor of a Saturday contest, the rivalry that put 32,000 people into the Ute Stadium Sta-dium three years ago will be revived Saturday. Last season saw many upsets coming out of traditional battles, but to assure nothing like that would happen to a fine Utah State team the Redskin-Aggie clash was held in Logan for the first time in many years. But the home field advantage advan-tage had to give way to one of the finest and most exciting games ever played in the state of Utah. The glory of that game will be forever shrowded by the devastating circumstances circum-stances surrounding that last weekend in November, but it still illustrates the point that while Utah State possessed an 8-1 record and the Utes were down at 3-5, Utah still came on strong to pull of the 21-14 upset. Head Aggie mentor Tony Knapp has suffered about all a coach could take this year and is assured of the worst Aggie football year in many. UTAH STATE didn't look bad falling to Arizona State in the opener 24-8 and with the life given the team by quarterbacks Rudy Curinga and Ron Edwards they came to life to score 76, 41, 51 and 42 points in four of their . next five wins. But lady luck was gradually tearing herself away from Utah |