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Show Y Cogeirs Open Seosoim V" USC Trojans Fall To Cats 95-8- 6 Mack Calvin led that Trojan By JOE WATTS Herald Spurts Editor spurt and the USC club was Coach Stan Watls started his 'able to maintain that lead 20th season as head basketball through the early part of the coach at BYU with an impres- second half. I hm,vO, UTAH COUNTY. SUNDAY, DECEMBER UTAH 1, 1968 6 win over highly toutsive Scoring S;"iirt It was Paul Kui ner who got ed University of Southern Cali fornia Saturday night in George the Cougars gang on a Albert Smith rieldhouse before scoring spurt as he got off a 9,651 fans. great shot wml: stumbling of! It was junior college trans balance, tying tbj score at The Cotipus then hit four fer Paul Ruffner, alone with 0 buckets to grab a more and Parsons Doug guards Lynn Howard, who paved the way for lead and they maintained com the victory over mand of the game from that the Trojans. point on. During those first 10 minutes Top Scorers Ruffner led the Cougar scor of the second half, Ruffner hit ing with 25 points and was espe 12 points to be a bulwark of cially impressive in the crucial strength for the eventual win going in the second half, when ners. the Cats were in dire need of The Trojans cut the margin to three at 3 with 1.33 rehis strength, Howard and Parsons added maining but again it was Ruff22 and 20 points respectively to ner who came to the rescue three-poiplay to give give the Cougars strong fire with a 3 lead and the Cougars an power from the guard line. This coasted hmne. they BYU trio offset the powstrong Percentages erful post play of 1 center Ron The BYU club shot 49 per Taylor of Southern California, who was high point man on the cent from the floor and the visitors managed 44 per cent of floor with 29 points. their floor shots. Ruffner was Early Lead The Cougars jumped to an top rebounder of the game, with while Taylor bad 13 for early lead and paced the visit- 1C, ors by as much as 12 points the Trojans. Guards Parsons and Howard during the early part of the to near perfection on teamed Trobut the gradually game, the line as they helped guard jans narrowed the margin and the two teams went to inter- each other out with steals and mission with the Cougars lead- easy baskets and each finished with nine field goals on IS atting Both were perfect at in empts. out the The Trojans came second half eating firt and hit the foul line. The Trojan), played a zone eight straight points to grab a of the night 7 lead, which had fans sit- defense for most but because effective it wasn't in seats. their ting uneasily Guards Steve Jennings and of the accurate outside shoot ing of Parsons and Howard. Scott Warner came in during the first half and quickly put in 10 points on three field goals and an amazing four for six from the foul line. : Others In Action 95-8- ASU Upsets Arizona 30-7- ; Wyoming WAC Grid Champ TUCSON, Ariz. (Ui)-Arizo- the third consecutive Western Athletic Conference championship, even though they were beaten by Arizona in the season finisher. Malone made a shamble of the once stout Arizona defense as he busted through the middle of the line for a -na State's Art Malone struck for two long touchdown runs in the first seven minutes of play Saturday night and the Sun Devils added a third in the same period to defeat Arizona 30-The loss gave Wyoming, who finished their season last week, 7. 46-li- Oregon Upends Utes In Hoop Fray SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -PIts Oregon opened season here Saturday night with an 8849 win over Utah coach Jack Gardner's fledgling Utes. First half play saw the Web-fooand their host scramble through nip and tuck ball, marred with numerous first game mistakes by members of both clubs. 1 Oregon led by six points, 88-6- 9 Stan Love with 15 and Rick Brosterhous who scored 15. High scorer for Utah was Jim Mahler with 15, followed by Ken Garener with 14 and Mike Newlin, 13. Utility man Love took advantage of the poor Utah shooting as he scooped in 15 rebounds to keep the Webfoot attack roll ing. owerful ts But guard Billy Gaskins set the Oregon pace throughout the second period as he pocketed 19 of his night's total of 23 points. Gaskins cracked the Utah defense with long jump shots train the front and deadly corner shots. Utah opened with a zone defense but was forced to don It within 10 minutes as the Webfoots ran through, around and shot over it. ; Oregon shot 46.6 per cent from the field, compared with Utah's Five minutes later sloppy 35.1 per cent. Gaskins was followed by Bill Drozdiek with 16 points, Wins Hoop 115-7- 7 A- - M "V "5 Iw Xfl o vc- j - nt 89-8- 7-- Fl 11 l the third period ASU Early field came back with a goal by Paul Ray Powells. It was the first of three field goals for Powells. The other two were from 20 and 28 yards. A JUNIOR COLEGE transfer, Paul Ruffner, fires away for two points over the outstretched hands of Ron Taylor of Southern California in a bit of action from the game Saturday night, which BYU won Doug Howard (25) watches the action for a possible rebound or defens 95-8- ive play. V (? I three-minut- 112-8- 8 sprinted to a 45 59 halftime .' Lobo Court Team Wins 88-5- Lja: ion 42-2- 6-- 55-3- - 61-3- points. USC Trojans, Adolph Rupp, who last season became the winningest colle coach in giate basketball history, now has 788 career wins at Kentucky In his 39th By ALEX KAHN LOS ANGELES year. (UPI)-T- he Xavier was paced University of Southern Califoroy reserve junior guard Chris nia rode the passing arm of Hall with 17 points, all in the Steve Sogge to a fourth period second half. Tom Rohling had touchdown Saturday to pull up 13 points and Luther Rackley to a 1 tie with Notre Dame but the deadlock spoiled the tiad iz. Trojans' dream of a perfect season and a possible national Undersized 21-2- Memphis State Wins Missouri Valley Crown LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) State put on an Memphis awesome offensive display early in the second half to rip 4 Louisville Saturday and win the Missouri Valley Confer ence title in its first year of competition. 44-1- foul t ii i i looiDau cnampionsmp. The battling Irish, underdogs by three points, for the first time this season stopped O.J. Simpson by holding the Heis- man Trophy winner to 55 yards on 21 carries, this was his lowest yardage total of the season. It took the passing of Sogge to kep the Trojans from their first defeat on their way to then Rose Bowl engagement with Ohio State Jan. 1. In the fourth period after &rry Shaw However, mate Kari Li'mo tailed in the missed foul shot and scored on the rebound. rd IT'S A LONG stretch when Paul Ruffner, (44) BWs 0 center and his opposing player from USC, Ron Taylor, 1 of the BYU-USgame in Provo center, go up for the tip-oSaturday night. ff C XJ Bruce Barron, a BYU reserve forward, took a bad spill just 21 21 2 ,r r 'V5r-' . J ,vl "" ff (H er USC-Notr- 37-3- Liimo Lythgoe Ruffner Parsons Downs CSI Howard Warner BYU Frosh g, r .... for the touchdown. Miller Barron Dresser Pagett Jennings 16 -2 9-3-- 6 0-- 2 .... 1 ..38-7- 8 G 44 44 04 54 04 19-2- 8 F S 25 6 20 0 23 3 10 0 0 1 s S 2 51 95 R P 2-- 0-- 1 4 4 64 34 S 13 15 29 0 4 2 4 7 10-1- .... 7 9-- 4 04 2-- 2 6-- 12 3-- 6 3-- 4 S 11 86 42 Collegiate Grid Scores 17 6-- Christensen Tollestrup Radunich 0 3 7 Wilson Martin 6 9 Sheen 2 Cruze Hackett 2 1 Gustafson 1 TOTALS 25 0-- 1 3 6 2--4 16 44 04 04 04 04 04 16 3-- 3 15-2- 3 65 G F P Davis Adams 2 54 2 9 3 Stephens Miller Brown Bush 7 3 8 2-- 7 16 1 6 0 Reita Fouled out-Tolle- strua (tie) Alabama 24 Auburn 16 Oklahoma 41 Oklahoma St. 7 Baylor 16 Rice 7 San Jose St. 25 Brigham Young 0 21 4 Southern California 21 Notre 4 Dame 21 (tie) 2 Memphis St. 44 Louisville 14 2 :rn Idaho 1 Goetz completed 17 of 28 28 TOTALS passes for 187 yards while Theismann hit on 10 of 16 for Halftime wores-C- SI 152 yards, Gladieux was the Frosh 25 19 with rusher carries leading Total personal fouls for 121 yards while Notre Dame BYU Frosh 16 total the in outgained Trojans 442 23 -1 1- 2- 9-- (Ml TOTALS USC Clemo Calvin Taylor 7 4 2 Powell 04 10 1 Mannino ... 5 04 fornia clash. 2 2 I Rhyne Leading the Eagles to victory Crenshaw ..4-- 5 5 was Jackie Brown, who bucket- TOTALS ..34-7- 8 49 7 ed 20 points. Other players to Halftime score-B- YU 47, USC score in the double figures for Attendance 9,651 the winners were Nate Stephens and '''om Bush, with 16 each. Gary Radunich and George Wilson, former star at Wasatch High in Heber, also scored 16 points each to pace the Kitten attack. Mike Atwood, former Spanish Fork High School ace, scored 12 points in the losing Army 21 Navy 14 cause. Boston Coll 40 Holy Cross 20 Florida 14 Miami, Fla. 10 Box score: Georgia 47 Georgia Tech 8 G P Tennessee 10 Vanderbilt 7 F BYU Frosh 17 Mississippi St. 12 Mississippi 3 9 Atwood Sogge yardage, 7 ....12-2- 2 .... .... .... 34 0- - 3-- BYU-Soutfie- rn Notre Dame Tie d third-quart- n. Then Warner came back moments later to make two free throws in a iow as the crowd The College of Southern Idaho, roared its approval. When Warner can make two in a row, jumping off to a 5 halftime anything can happen, one press lead, defeated the Brigham box observer said. Young University Freshmen 75- After missing another free 65 Saturday night in the BYU throw, Warner sank two more fieldhouse in a preliminary conin a row on a sit Calitest to the uation. la brilliant field ceneral. subbinei their touchdowns In the first Bob Gladieux's breakaway run Theismann threw four inter- - for Terry Hanratt- - half, two of them in the opening for 57 yards from scrimmage ceptions in the game but proved ty. The Irish scored all three of period which was highlighted by for a TD. It was the longest Notre Dame run of the year from scrimmage. 1,-The game was 40 seconds old V f- -J Y S 4 when Trojan safety Sandy Durko stepped in front of Jim Seymour on the 21 to intercept a Theismann pass and run it over for a TD. The Irish took the kickoff and marched 83 yards with Ron Dushney going over from the three. The next time Notre Dame -gained possession of the ball the Iri&h moved 76 yards b'lt 57 came on Gladieux's spring left tackle for the through score. With 30 seconds left in the half, Notre Dame amazed the I crowd of 82,650 as Theismann X handed off to Coley O'Brien who passed 13 yards to Theismann -- omore Jim Miuer ana Jonn Dresser. The Cougars' biggest margin was 12 points at 184 and 20-- 6 in the first half and the closest the Trojans were In the first The ball game half was in the second half was tied at 56, 58. and 60 before the Cats hit their ten straight points to in second the half, Early gain the upper hand. Starting Forward Marty Lyth-go- e This week BYU will go on also hobbled off the court the road to play New Merto State on Dec. 5 and will return with some kind of leg Injury. home next Saturday, Dec. 7, to The injury apparently was not play Seattle. in Box Score: too serious as he R P G the second half of the ball game. BYU team line. Others seeing action for the BYU cause were forwards Karl Liimo and Marty Lythgoe and substitute Bruce Barron, Soph 36-2- intercepted a Joe Theismann pass, Sogge climaxed a touchdown drive with a pass to end Sam Dickerson. Notre Dame held a 21-- 7 halftime lead but USC cut the USC'S O. J. SIMPSON bobbles the bull as he tries to go through the line at ip id field in a margin with a Tigers to touchdowns in the ouchdown on a e drive bit of action from the Dame game Saturday. He is set upon by five Irish tack-lerlame period the next two times with Simpson going over from three of whom are, left to right, Bob Kuechenbcrg (75), Bob Olscn and Erik Norri. the one for his 22nd score of the (Herald-LT- I they handled the ball. Telephoto) Danny Tiger quarterback Pierce hit fhmker Preston Riley with a pass in the end tone just after the second half began to give Memphis a 23-- 7 lead. Pierce then directed the Scott Warner, the 6 BYU center who normally has as much trouble hitting his foul shots as Wilt Chamberlain of pro basketball fame, tanked four out of six tosses in the first half of Saturday night's BYUUSC game. Coming into the game as the replacement for starting cen ter Paul Ruffner, with about 8 minutes gon in the first half, Warner started in this season where he left off last Season by missing his first try from the season. UPI Sports Writer BYU Fans as the buzzer sounded ending the first half as he was driving He not only missin for a lay-ied the basket, but rolled up against the fence at the north end of the court. He hobbled off tn court at halftime. Irish Stop O. J. Simpson aieeie, wno sparkled on defense as well as the boards, was next for the Wildcats with 16 By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Sports Writer 6-- 6-- 6 50-4- Warner Amazes lead. Utah State abandoned its one defense in the second half, but the Cowboys used a fast break to reel off 13 points against the Aggie's two ss the second half opened. With 11 minutes remaining, the Cowboys hit six straight 97-5- 8 free throws to open up an 8 lead, their biggest of the game, Wyoming and Utah State both ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (UPI) 59 per cent of their shots h hit of The New University Mexico, defending Wes'ern Ath the first half, but the Cowboys letic Conference champions, scored five more field goals rolled to a 8 season opening and four more free throws. It was Wyoming's second win over Abilene Christian largest scoring total in an open College Saturday. The Lobos pulled ahead early ing game. Carl Ashley, a junior cen in the first half and were never outside excellent ter, displayed seriously threatened. The Wild score 20 points for to shooting cats, defending champs in the and junior forward Southland Conference, led brie- Wyoming, Steve Popovich added 16. fly early in the game but trailed For the Aggies, sophomore 5 at the half. center Marvin Roberts scored Top scorer for the Lobos was 27 points in his first varsity 9 junior center Greg Howard game, ' and junior guard Paul with 25 points before he fouled Jeppesen added 25. out with 7:57 left in the game, Roberts also won rebounding nignt Demnd Howard were honors with 12 and Tim Tones-trusophomore Willie Long with 16 had 20. No Wyoming play points and senior Ron Becker er had double figures on the 13. 47-4- With Accuracy From Foul Line; Made 4 of 6 outscored junior debuts Saturday night as they led Kentucky with 29 7 points apiece to a victory over Aavier of Ohio. Kentucky did not waste much tune as sophomore Larry the only apparent Steele, question mark on this season's Wildcat squad, scored three straight basket3 to open up a 22 10 lead with 13:7 remaining in me first nan. with rebounds. Kentucky, which went on to a ACC's top scorer was senior 3 halftime lead, then out- Mike 12, Ronnie Nicholas and Marlon Kerby with 15. scored the Musketeers 26-- 6 and, led ACC with five Long led the Lobos with 21 Lewis with 15:14 left in the second rebounds and Howard snatched rebounds apiece. half, held an unsurmountable 9 lead. 115-7- , v , N ! 97-5- LEXINGTON, Ky., (UPI- )' Supersophs Mike Casey and Dan issel made impressive V d 86-8- In Game Kentucky Tilt Malone broke through the same side of the line for 30 yards and his second TD. Less than three minutes after that Sun Devil quarterback Joe Spagnola hit J.D. Hill with a pass for ASU's third touchdown of the quarter. Arizona finally go on the scoreboard in the second quarter when they blocked a Sun Devil punt, and linebacker Char lie Duke picked it up and ran 36 yards into the end zone. The rest of the second quarter was played between the 20 yard lines as Arizona momentarily stiffened its defense. con- - 60-8- 0. hard-earne- LARAMIE, Wyo. (UPI) -- test at Laramie Saturday night Utah Harry Hall and Stan Dodds Wyoming scured 21 points each to lead State 12-- 1 during a e Wyoming to a victory In period late in the first half, and season-openin- g I first Wyoming Cagers Coast To Easy USU Victory an erratic .'iVIiM it W y"v: 68-6- touchdown scamper the time he got his hands on the ball. 37-3- at halftime. M Baylor Defeats Rice Owls 16-- 7 Tex. (UPD-G- ena the Baylor carried Rogers 6 attack 04 through mud and sleet 20 Saturday to give Bears' John 4 16 Brideers a 16 7 win over Rice in 3 his last 34 game as head coach 0 2 and leave the Owls witn tneir 0 75 first winless season in history. Rogers scored the Bears, first 36, BYU run touchdown on a three-yar- d tie to third in the period early CSI 18, the score and broke his own Baylor single game rushing record witl 1& yards. 4-4-- 0-- 19-3- WACO, |