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Show It w . A A J 1 ... v Ill1' 1 ' ' ' - lu Track tonight More than 300 athletes from the eight Western Athletic Conference Con-ference member schools will participate in the third annual indoor track and field meet at the Salt Palace Friday and Saturday nights. Action will begin at 7 p.m. Friday with the high hurdle trials. Excitement Ex-citement will continue Saturday in the 16-event championship meet Saturday, with field events starting at 7 p.m., and running events beginning at 7:45 p.m. The meet includes 33 foreign track stars, eight defending champions and five WAC record holders. Experts say chances for a new champion are pretty certain. BYU won the first title in 1970 and UTEP dethroned them in the meet last year. If performances to date are any indication, New Mexico should be the odds on favorite to take this year's trophy back to Albuquerque. Utah, while not considered a serious contender for the team title, will have a number of individuals in-dividuals who by past records can compete with the best the WAC has to offer. Steve Odom will join with Fred Craves in the 60-yard dash to the best spring combination for the Utes in years. Odom recently ran a 9.5 100-yard dash, and Craves consistently runs under 10 seconds. sec-onds. Don Welsh, in the triple jump, holds Utah's best chances in the field events. Welsh finished sixth in the meet last year with a mark of 48' 5-34". Tickets for the two day affair are on sale at the Salt Palace and at BYU and Utah. Tickets for the Friday session are $2.00 for adults and $1.00 for students. Saturday adult tickets are $2.50, while the student fare is $1.50. y - " km Uv fim.: vu. mtm9rre ssm'.'- -.aw .A'nm- "uy y.rT-7- : - .- - r--rrj i Officials play an important part in college basketball. Sometimes, however, they play more ol a part than the coaches would like them to. The above pictures express the way Utah coach Bill W Foster top and New Mexico coach Bob King ir middle and bottom feel about some of the calls in i their recent game. Foster scratches his head in contemplation while King is a little more vocal. Photos by Steve Schowengerdi |