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Show United States Hoopsters Remain Unbeaten To Win Olympic Title By JOHN G. GRIFFIN retain the gold medal in the! sport America invented and, MEXICO CITY (UP1) Of the! remain unbeaten in Olympic 40 gold medals already captured: basketball way back to 1936. When the U.S. basketball by the United States in the Games, team was first announced many Olympic this was the sweetest because weeks ago,, there was stunned it was the one the Yanks surprise. Lew Alcindor and the weren't supposed to win. other top "name" U.S. players But the defensive magic of weren t on the squad, ana m Coach Hank Iba worked its spell their place was a bunch of Friday night, and when the final unknowns. Forecasts of U.S. the United defeat were many 8nd they buzzer sounded, States' basketball team had seemed to be borne out as the to American team crushed Yugoslavia, staggered soon-to-en- d 65-5- A BYU Selects ill i 0 Bowling Team Following two weeks of try- outs, 17 students have been pick ed to compete for a position on the BYU men and women bowl ing teams. Leading the men's division was David Musk, a southpaw and freshman student from San Antonio, Tex. He finished 21 games with a respectable 195 average. Musk recorded nine games during the 65-5- Hank Iba Is Happy With Underdog USA Hoop Team MEXICO CITY (UPI)-His an honest man. two-wee- the players on the Elvin Hayes and Wes Unseld were rather sensitive teen along. about things they heard and But they weren't and when the second half started, a group read. in the upper balcony flashed its Smorgasbord own banner reading: "We read among other things "Go, Gringo, Go." that we were a "smorgasbord" Different Team team," said Mike Silliman, a Whether the banner had from Louisville West Point of team ank Iba . He's head coach of the U.S. basketball team, which polished 0 for the off Yugoslavia but championship, Olympic nobody's gcing to get him to grad say this is the best ball club and one of the team's forwards. he's ever had. we picked up a He won't say it because he "Everytime we saw ourselves newspaper knows it isn't true and so does We referred to as second-ratereverybody else. What it could be though, is resented it." the most sensitive team Iba For the first half against ever handled. Yugoslavia, Iba's crew looked A lot of things were said as bad as they had been about this ball club before it described. They were tight, they ever arrived here. One of the failed to take advantage of things said about it was that it openings and they looked as if could easily be one of the they had failed to be properly weakest outfits ever to repre- introduced to each other. sent Uncle Sam. The consensus Uncle Sam's boys had all they was it would finish somewhere could do to leave the floor with around fourth in the Olympic a 9 advantage at half time and it was natural during competition that some men- Well, It fooled everybody by intermission finishing on top anj one of the tioned it would have been a lot reasons it did was because to different had Lew Alcindor, 65-5- , s. 32-2- 9 BYU to Host Volleyball Tournament Brigham University invitationwill host a al volleyball tournament on Saturday, Nov. 23. The tourney is open to volleyball teams from the intermountain area. The entrance fee is $5.00 per sen is a junior. Rounding out team. The fee should be forthe top ten are Dennis Hullinger, warded to Coach Wilfred Naval-t- a Terry Ehlers, Bill Casaday, at the Smith Fieldhouse by Tom Cottongim, Donald Fowler, Nov. 16. Howard Nielson and Bob Tol- When sending the entrance fee man. the - entry should include the Leading the women's division name of the team, sddress of was Beverly Empey with an the coach, and team roster. Fur average of 170 foi 15 games. ther information will be for She rolled games of warded to teams which enter. and high game of 216 duruig the Volleyball has gained in interroll-ofk Beverly was in the state of Utah over the est a member of last year's cham few years. Two former past Santeam. She from is pionship vollyball players ta Rosa, Calif, and a sophomore. and Second place was Becky Hogue, from BYU, Jon Stanley now are John Alstrom, playing with an average of 151. Other Uteam members include Susanne on the - S, Olympic volleyball SPENCER HAYWOOD, USA's brilliant center, lays one up against Yugoslavia in final game of the Olympic basketball competition in Mexico City. At left is Yugo's Peter Skansi. Sandwiched in middle in USA's Michael Silliman. The USA won 0 and won the gold medal. (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) anything to do with it or not is debatable, but the U.S. team came out looking anything but like the same one which had its hands full against the upstart Yugoslavs in the first half. m canoeing, where it six medal and Russia's Ivan Kizimov gained the gold medal in an upset in the Equestrian Individual Dressage. Friday n Sunday Herald 21 49-2- 9 200-met- Finn Christensen. a member of last year's team, was second with a 185 average. Christensen rolled a high individual six- game series of 1236. A high 3-game series of 665, and the high individual game of 244. Christen many 11-- 6 e 200-pl- us By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Writer Iba's coaching in Friday's final! and tied for first in the floor because they trailed in the exercises to go with the opening minutes and led by only Around title she had won at halftime. They just could not crack the stout Yugo Wednesday night. The Russians had a field day defense And in then an incredible sWbTY70CTOBER27, 1968 Utah Counly, Utah rally which lasted eight minutes and 50 seconds the Yanks scored 17 straight points to open the second half for a lead which salted away the gold medal. But defense was the key. It wasn't shooting that broke the through an exhibition schedule game open, but tight, ballhawk-in- g which included two losses to defense. The Yanks blocked Yugoslavia. shots, stole the ball, and set up But Iba, the wily Oklahoma fast breaks,. State coach who is perhaps the The United States won two master of basketball other gold medals Friday, by defense, started weaving his Kolb of swimmers Claudia spell. Santa Clara, Calif., in the individual Tough Defense women's The American's needed all medley in 5:08.5, and Pokey Watson, also of Santa Clara, in backthe women's stroke in 2:24.. UPI Executive Sports Editor Young six-te;.- roll-off- The Rocky Mountain Buwling Conference will consist of the following schools: BYU, Utah, Utah State, Idaho State, Weber State, Ricks College, and Dixie Junior College. SPORTS FANS! I "I I Roosevelt's home,' Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay, .nd his birthplace in Manhattan are national historic sites. ' I Theodore "V Htlr 0 111 PL-r ' 111 iwvm M BET YOU V A coat for all seasons DIDtn llXn KNOW REPORT J4 I i top star Friday, however, as she won her second, third and fourth individual gold medals in gymnastics the first athlete !n Olympic history to win that many individual medals. She won the vault, the uneven bars I place last season. y$ lltnj Best Day for Russia Friday was Russia's best day in the games with 14 medals-fi- ve gold, two silver and seven bronze. With this splurge, the Soviets pushed their total to 69. Vera Caslavska, a pert blonde was the from Czechoslovakia, team. EXTBID I IF,'1' lf 1 1 lHn If 7 200-met- f. Andrus, Dawn MaCaulley, Susan Warr, Norma Walton and Cathy Shurtz. A total of 48 students competed in the The BYU women's team Is defending champions of the Rocky Mountain Bowling Conference. They have won the conference title three years in a row. The men's team finished in third iW Those three gold medals, pl is a silver by Lynn Vidali of San Francisco behind Miss Kolb and a bronze by Kaye Hall of Tacoma, Wash., behind Miss Watson, and a silver by Mitchell Ivev of Santa Clara and a of bronze by Jack Horlsey Seattle, Wash., in the men's backstroke, increased the U.S. total of medals to 95. "Fair kirk" by ED GIVAN by Here'i quite an oddity about Notre Dame football ... Gleneagles Did you know Notre Dame once went 23 seasons without losing a home game! . . . The Irish loit a home game Oct. 21. 1905 to Waand then never bash, lost another home game till Nov. 17, 1928 when Carnegie Tech beat them 27-. . . 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