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Show Water polo new to Utah but by STEVE SCHOWENGERDT Chronicle Stalf Take a non-contact sport like ..row in a p , eas from sports like football, basket bal? soccer, volleyball, karate and wrestling . . . call it water po o and get ready for some wild action , you are ready, the University water polo team that has consistently con-sistently been one of the .best m the WAC conference, meets BYU to night .at 8 p.m. Admission is free to theUte Natatorium, site of the game. Water polo, a relatively new usually three feet above the surface sur-face of the water. Water polo games at the University Univer-sity are played in the center pool in the Natatorium. Each team fields six players plus a goalkeeper, who wage 28 minutes of all-out warfare. war-fare. To start the game the players line up at opposite ends of the pool and wait for one of the two referees to get the game under way. The referees take positions along the sides of the pool. Each of them holds a three-foot-long stick with the University's easel 10 ,he c'th caps S team. v Wo,Mi; Now that the h ,he waV, he! begins. There n touching the bo m9 0Ver a" opp;"H no striking an J and no hanging on " To the p.ayer,9,n, an. to break lhe!a "'. away with it as i,is(0 to catch them. Good water polo known for their palience'-V ln9 ability in lhe uncommon for a playe,0. : tally or intentionally sruQT" I ln the face, poke a J," eve, or give an opponent", kick to the mid-section ji' water polo player muslf;; ence, because it is not a c".. to slug a player back,": the relerees is watching" ' ;, The water polo paye,, ability brings on many-" normally would nol hj called. Since a lot ol the iron ir-on underneath the wate -relerees cannot see. apv ming up the tact that hung onto can1 get po:-the po:-the ball. The players are jp , along opposite ends of th;: the releree holding titer "Whites ready." reterr-; IS color ol the caps k:- ready." The players sic---. '"' are with a yell and h: whistle that starts tr "g sprinting like mad ton?: pool. Now the referee :r ball into a previously :: " lane so both teams have their lastesl s tling tor possession. BM The players can only ':. ball with one hand ati"TJ7J goalkeepers can use :: but rarely do because : -mands ol their posic 19.'K keeper must be able to - up to his waist and mc,;' si ) (continued:' 6i ,. no. , a - - - Goalie Brent Larsen and Craig Burns (with glasses) defend in rough and tumble water polo action, hoping to stop a goal. sport to Utah, is simple and easy to get into as a spectator. The main object of the game is to throw a ball, about the size of a volleyball, into the opponent's goal. The goals are ten feet wide and colored Hags attached to the ends. The sticks are not lor beating the players, but are used for showing which team is to be given possession posses-sion of the ball in case of a foul. The colored flags (red and white in .mo PAf for Chalk time at the swimming pool as the players play-ers go over some plays and plan their strategy. These drowned-looking water rots of -of the University's crack water polo ...full of action for spectator .. (continued from page 10) to-side with equal the speed of a soccer goalkeeper. Considering the ' size of the goal, the goalkeeper must be something like a dolphin with four-feet-long arms. The player who wins the sprint for the ball will throw it back to a teammate who has dropped back for the pass. The players then work the ball down in front of the goal where they have several options. . ? ,. - -.. I I i They can move a player into what is known as the hole position, that is located right in front of the goal about four yards out. or work the ball around, much like the play in basketball, until a player gets a shot. A player that moves into the hole, known as the hole man, has three quick shots that he can take that are hard to defend against. In fact, to keep a good hole man from scoring the only thing an opposing player can do is drown him. Driving in on goal is common in water polo. The players with possession pos-session of the ball may choose to keep breaking down the middle then to a side of the pool until a teammate loses his opponent and gets free for a shot. All in all it comes to four grueling periods of all-out swimming while being kicked, punched, pinched, pulled and hung onto. The University's Univer-sity's game Wednesday will be their second this season and their first home game. They defeated Idaho State last Wednesday 9-7. Coach Jim Rasmussen predicted that BYU and New Mexico will be the teams to beat this year. One could bet that the University is also one of those teams tn bpat mr, , . 1 Varsity water polo coach Jim Rasmussen keeps a watchful eve over his Dlavers in oractice. Biff Rummerfield (center) and Brent Larsen (goalie) try to stop shot by Craig Burns (uniden- tified hondt |