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Show Utes to get hockey team University program will become the official farm system for the Beagles in addition to the youth program. The head Beagle also infered he would provide players from his team to help in training the new skaters at the University. Athletic Supporter Bad Jock is optimistic about the whole undertaking under-taking especially since a potentially poten-tially ideal arena is already available avai-lable for the team's use. Originally the fieldhouse was going to be the rough spots and lay a new coat of smooth ice (the Zamboni) cannot be afforded for a couple of years. Coming to the rescue, football foot-ball coach Willie Weak has volunteered volun-teered members of his team to handle the chores. Weak feels the actual scraping of the ice with hoe like tools to delete rough spots will keep his players in better condition all year and justify a greater number of scholarships allocated to his program. Ice hockey will be added to the athletic curriculum at the University Uni-versity beginning next fall due to the aroused interest throughout the Wasatch Front area for the game. Many contributing factors have prodded the Department of Athletics to reach the decision despite some minor opposition from other conference schools who have not incorporated the sport. With the professional Salt Lake Golden Beagles setting the stage, many boys of high school age and under have taken up the game in the Beagle sponsored youth program. pro-gram. The Beagles' chief hot dog, Oscar Meyer, is enthusiastic about the idea and has offered to assist the University in finding a coach for the team. Meyer says that hockey is big in many other parts of the nation and a coach should not be extremely ex-tremely difficult to find. In addition he indicated that the outfitted for all types of sports by covering the floor with a synthetic material. However, the building is just the perfect size for an ice rink and permanent bleachers are already al-ready installed. Building the rink will cost only about a third of what normally would have been expended for the synthetic turf. The actual funding of the team will come from the money saved in construction of the rink, or about $45,000. An ice machine used to scrape 7 i f Guess who this football player is, the college team he played for, and the position he played and win an autographed picture of the player and an ice cream filled pit. Tjrn guesses into the sports desk of the Unicle by Friday at 5 p.m. |