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It COULD Be Done They said it couldn't be done, They said we couldn't do it. We sat and listened carefully, Then went ahead and dood it. All the sportswriters and so-called experts who picked Utah to finish fifth out of six Western Athletic Conference teams were left standing with egg on their face Thursday when Arizona was defeated by New Mexico to give us undisputed claim on the WAC crown. As a matter of fact, the sportswriters were made to look pretty silly generally by the WAC. The only team the sooth-sayers picked for the right slot was BYU which finished as predicted in second place. First place prediction predic-tion New Mexico finished fifth, Arizona, set for the cellar according to Sports Illustrated and a few other prophets, were, in the last few weeks the only team with a chance of beating out Utah, and finally finished third. All in all, it was a bad year for the crystal ball. Jerry Chambers, who did not stand still all season, was completely overlooked in the major ail-American ratings rat-ings out so far. Associated Press picked only one player from schools west of the Mississippi, a young man from Kansas; and Look Magazine picked Dick Nemelka from BYU to their top ten. Chambers has averaged 35 points a game since the first BYU fiasco, and has racked up an average of 30.1 points for conference play yet still he. was ignored. Perhaps the Chronicle should pick its own all-Ameri-can team consisting of Jack Gardner's entire squad, who did with talent, raw guts and hustle, what no one thought they could do. |
