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Show Utes win streak on line against OregonStc ' Tftah's eonference-leadiner rush- snrfj , BY BRIAN NX'TTING Staff Writer Portland, Oregon may be the scene of some loud i noises ; and earthquake-like rumblings Saturday Satur-day night when the massive Oregon Ore-gon State Beavers host the Utah Redskins. ,, The Beavers' "Earthquake Enyart may be gone but OSU retains re-tains some beefy linemen and hard-running backs to challenge Utah's high-powered offense. 1 Utah's conference-leading rushing rush-ing attack will meet a stiff test in the likes of 230 pound Jess Lewis and 260 pound Bill Nelson. Utah's top eight backs all saw considerable action against New Mexico last week and give Oregon Ore-gon State's "Great Pumpkin," Dee Andros, cause to worry. The success or failure of Utah to mount a good running attack may be the key point of the game. Oregon State counters with, some backfield threats of its own to challenge the Ute defense, which has given up lots of yardage yard-age but very few scores. Larry Stone, Joe Galarze and Norm Thompson lead the Ute defenders, who must stop the likes of Ail-American Ail-American candidate tailback Billy Bil-ly Main and quarterback Steve Endicott. Utah's kicking game continues probably be Ray Groth at quarterback quar-terback and Dave Smith, Fred Graves and Bill Fowler at running run-ning backs. Fowler will be filling in for injured Bill Hunter but his 66 yards rushing against New Mexico shows he is up to the task. Waiting in the wings will be backup quarterback Clint Harden and runners Joe Gilfillan, Joe Dowd and Bill Hunter. Hunter suffed bruise sufficiently to day night. !r-i M ei&ht back., over four yari leads the SI1 t Utah's gickw t0eXcelaUait: an important p.r game. Craig The he,gt of good coverage by' and as a result have resulted in returns. Sophomore Man fe. yet to miss an tempt in 15 tries j' four field goals. l pointers tie a Utah & and includes 48 and j. In addition, Batetj,' frequently g0 nents cannot ran t A win is highly i the Utes to retain fe. turn for the remij season. Utah Sta' tough WAC oppoift' Wyoming and BYU e The head-knocking commences atTpm MDT when the Beavers L Utes meet for the 10th renew- gonStateholaconvmcmg7--l sories advantage over Utah, in Nations are that this year may s.e the Utes beatuig OSU m the first time since 1947. The Redskins won that one 7-6 and except for a 20-20 tie in 1948, the rest has been all Oregon State. Reason for the optimism in the Ute camp this year is the fact the Redskins have their best team in the last five years, combining a steady and explosive offense with a tenacious defense when the chips are down. On the other hand the Beavers have been a hot and cold crew this year and just possibly pos-sibly may be looking past Utah to their conference game with Stanford a week hence. Utah is riding on a four game winning streak after an opening-game opening-game loss to Oregon and has shown a consistent and varied offense of-fense attack each week since then. OSU has had its ups and downs. Sixth - ranked U.C.L.A. blew the Beavers right out of the stadium in the opener 37-0 but Oregon State bounced back the next week to do the same thing to Iowa 42-14. A 30-7 victory over Arizona State in Tempe was followed by a 31-7 at the hands of Southern Cal and a 10-6 last-minute last-minute squeaker over Washington. Washing-ton. The impressive victory over the speedy Sun Devils (the only common com-mon opponent of the two teams) shows Oregon State's potential, while their sluggish performance against Washington last week indicates in-dicates that the Beavers can be beaten by the Utes. |