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Show in THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday February 8, 1984 From the time a football team huddles in secrecy until the tell is snapped to the quarterback, players display dozens of body quirks and mannerisms that can give away what they seek to con- ceal. A Brigham Young University assistant football coach uses a microcomputer to collect, code and quantify that body language. Then he analyzes it on a large computer and predict some offensive plays with more than accuracy. James Paronto, assistant professor of physical education and defensive coach for the BYU football team, said the computer is vastly superior to the paper and pencil method of recording nonverbal cues used by coaches for years, because it is much faster and more thorough. hi his study, Paronto found that he could correctly predict about 94 percent of the time whether an opposing team would pass or run. Specific play types were more difficult to predict. Using a small portable TICOR-DA- C (Timed Interval Categorical AnObservation Recorder-Da- ta alysis Computer) developed at BYU, Paronto and his assistants recorded nonverbal -- behavior live during varsity games. They coded individual players visual stance, hand and foot position cues during the first half of the then predicted plays games, during the second half to verify the first-ha- lf findings. In a total of 137 cases, run or 90-perc- ent pass was predicted correctly 129 times, or 94 percent of the time. of eight specific Predictions kinds of play, such as the dive trap, were not consistently above mark considered the nt valid. Paronto found that the offensive tackle or tight end were easiest to predict, partly because they were more visible than other players. Their stance was the most important variable in predicting whether the offensive team would run with the ball or pass it. other individual players and their char- acteristic behavior Sewuta quirks. ccfr, fti r r- Consistent obersvaiion of players from game to game can often turn up team members most likely to give themselves away with body language, Paronto said. Using electronic monitoring equipment during a college game is prohibited by theNCAA, but the computer method can be used in football to scout professional other teams before games and to scout ones own team, Paronto said. Coaches could begin alterting their players to the quirks of the other team as soon as possible. On the day of the game, if the predictions held up during the first half, the information could , be relied on for second-ha- lf cisions. V3 - by Dale O. Nelson Utah State University Have you ever noticed that fit exercisers seem to get fewer illnesses such as infectious colds, flus, and the like? Now we suspect these claims may have a plausible physiological explanation. R is a fact that during strenuous exercise such as a four-mi- le run, your temperature will rise to 102 degrees or higher, the equivalent of a pretty good fever, plus the fact that your temperature will stay up for awhile after you work out. What is the connection? When you have an invading illness, the white cells in the blood attack the foreign organisms and release a substance called endogenous pyrogen a protein that causes the brain to raise the well-kno- Monticello Elementary School, second term school officers: Becky Coleman, president; Joe Jensen, vice president; Karen Rose, secretary; John Noxon photo Julie Thompson, historian. de- Ribavirin fights broad spectrum of viruses attempts to measles, Colds, herpes, -- once the flu mumps, youve got them, youre stuck with them. All five are viral infections, so no pill, no shot, no teaspoonful of cherry-flavorsyrup exists to make them go away faster than your body's immune system can conquer them. But help is on the way. Like antibiotics, which can make adent in bacterial infections within hours, anew drug appears to fight a broad spectrum of viruses. The drug, ribavirin, was synthesized in 1972 under the direction of Roland K. Robins, director ot Cancer Research Center at Brigham Young University. Two other Robins drugs, both chemical cousins of ribavirin, are showing promise in controlling certain of cancer in animals. types Tiazofurin apparently cures lung tumors in mice, and selenazofurin causes human leukemia cells to stop growing uncontrollably and become mature cells. Ribavirin is already beingused to treat various types of human viral infections in 30 countries. Approval from the Food and Drug Adminstralion here' is expected within two years. Robins said approval in the United States could mean the beginning of a medical revolution more dramatic than the one that followed discovery of can use the computer to scout ourselves. If we find we are exhibiting these nonverbal cues, we can coach them out, Partonto said. ed Hurry sickness nervous anxiety that has been termed hurry sickness affects a growing number of Americans. One sympton is the feeling of never being able to catch up and of always being behind schedule. Doctors treatingpatients under the stress of hurry sickness often try to help them put obligations inlongrangeperspective. They teach them how to delegate responsibilities in their occupations and in their home life. Patients are helped to realize that no one can work at full capacity on the job and at home without doing emotional andphys-ic- al damage to the body. The healing formual is based on the three relax, refuel and rewind. Rs: With hands like E.T.s and ears is one of like a bats the aye-athe rarest creatures on Earth. There maybe only about 50 of these lemurs left, all on the island of Madagascar, off the east African coast, National Geographic reports. With its keen can detect hearing, the aye-athe faint sound of grubworms moving under the bark of tree ye & -I- I We A j I nonverbal cues, frus- -i trating opponents predict plays. g Exercisers get fewer infectious illnesses ' ' X The computer method can also be used to help ones own players make their .Pvt:gSiri' nti jwwfea. . ye four positions, studied the tight end, running back, quarterback and wide rewere ceiver decreasing reliable as predictors of plays. The TICOR system allows not just evaluation of positions. It also enables observers to code The litr-- 3 8 coach uses computer to code body language BYU . - Page Ti penicillin, a bacteria fighter. Bacteria cause only 15 percent of allhuman illness, while viruses cause about 60 percent. Ribavirin apparently fights 80 percent of all viruses, making it the first major broad-spectru- m anti-vir- wn bodys temperature. The higher temperature hostile environment a creates for the invaders so that they cannot continue to multiply and harm your body. Microorgan- us drug. isms, for example, require iron to grow, and this is consequently San Juan wrestlers lowered by the pyrogen. Add an increased number of white cells and antibodies in the blood to do battle in your behalf and you can understand the invaders predicament. They diet Incidentally, thebest advice for a feverish exerciser to to lie back and enjoy the warmth. Too often we rush to take aspirin or some drug to lower our temperature, when we would be better off to keep the fever. At any rate, these recent physiological findings don't mean 'that you should fight a cold or flu attack with a four-mi- le run. But it does mean that a good regular exercise program may keep you from getting the bugs in the headed for state by Shelia Harrison San Juan wrestlers are headed for state after placing fourth overall in the regionalplayoffsat St. George last weekend. Their score was 95.5. Bronco Jerry Skow (132) was San Juan's only first place. Robert Mantz (157) placed second. Vance Adams (98) and Kuhia Fisher (145) took third. Four San Juan wrestlers placed fourth Roger (105), Farley Roberts (126), Terry Hutchins (185) andNorman Blackwater (heavy weight). Jack Lyttle (112) and Arnold Vijil (155) placed fifth. Terri Tso si (119) placed sixth. first place. r ; branches. cut exfauuCed tttettu! Records and Tapes Oonlly $T.2)8X We stock the best selection While Supplies Last fry pan 10-i- n. Sandwiches Soups Salads Daily Specials Abajo Convenience Store Monticello, Utah IL 2.37 aluminum with nonstick interior, heat-prohandle. 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