Show 5 196’8 Fr:v January 1948 Student Utah State University Page 5 Craig Hislop II Graham: A Cracker For USU Globe - trotting Ramblers Pumas vs USU 3 by Craig Hislop Sports Editor two members of the Utah high school Clearfield High made a visit to the state basketball champs and the Aggie basketball staff made sure that the IJSU campus were well treated young men and had been One was tall about everybody’s befoie the season’s first points were scored l ie all state choice mention before the season een rated some prep on to earn the same by season’s end an(j would go He had earlier in the fall been named to the football team for his quarterback work on the 6 Clearfield Falcon the spring would find him playing and being named eleven and in Utah’s annual North-Soutmost valuable player high school wilt late last March ten Jin Ithil li Oil ehtbe e erih noujt e Life - Ett h Kill H star baseball game But basketball was his game and he obviously at 6-- 4 had a major college guard as evidenced the makings of by the aggressiveness of all Utah universities and many out of state to attall ‘ill Mil 0 lopj ract him His brother Mike BYU and uncle years at University of Utah flail km (Mo young man’s name is representative of any school Mr few peers He liked what he saw in his visit to Logan "Each college that I have visited has its own good traits think the coaches here at USU are the greatest” he remarked The good looking and d as Kenny Gardner Gardner would have I had given Stan Watts some pleasant Vern was once an at the a later Coaches Kenny: Mutual Administration that there was a mutual feeling because Andersen Nog Hansen and Dale Brown thought highly You can believe LaDell of Kenny But the influence of unde Vern Gardner apparently outweighed Kenny’s desire to become an Aggie because he is now playing frosh ball for the University of Utah Now in the course of recruiting prospective college ath letes it is to be expected that many of the big ones will get decision to attend Utah was a blow to away But Gardner’s many a university basketball staff our own not excluded However it just may be that we have come out on the long end of the deal after all Because when Gardner made the trip to Logan on that late March day he was accompanied by his good friend and teammate Harley Graham Harley had also enjoyed a fine career at Clearfield But Gardner had overshadowed Denver-borthe lithe athlete But Graham unlike had Kenny pretty well made his mind 6-- 0 n attend USU "I also have a great amount of respect for our Aggie coaches and I had always enjoyed the style of play that LaDell Andersen's teams have shown” Harley said recently In turn it is obv ious freshman coach Dale Brown has liked Harley's stvle of play because Graham has been in the lineup for every frosh game this year while piling up a fine 232 scoring average just one-tentof a point from Paul Hoffman’s record scoring pace of 1965-6- 6 up to Harley’s Success No Fluke j Harley's fine performance to date has really one of those rags to riches stories to any great degree Both he and Gardner had the rare distinction of winning three varsity bisketball letters while at Clearfield and Harley’s scoring average of 17 points per came compared pretty favorabOf course been not Kenny’s 220 this looks like Harley’s year as he has consistently or second in scoring for every game so far ly with But first His outputs twice his performance against the Idaho "lows” to date have been game was a fine freshmen high State been Harley contends that his outstanding ultant from a greater tendency to go to roved aggressiveness has not netted year so far is by p t 0 The Utah State University Aggies still weary from an ex haustlng December schedule that forced them against some of the nation’s fine teams must travel to Provo tomorrow to meet as tradition would Imply the heir apparent to the 1968 NIT tourney crown Stan Watt’s erratic Cougars so far began the year soon after returning fiom a 25000 mile 50 day team trip to the Orient During the 27 game journey (the Cougars won 24 and lost three) the Cats obviously got plenty of work together It was twice bifore that BYU made similar summer trips to South America in 1950 and 1965 and It was those same two teams that used that valuable playing experience to tool out a couple of NIT championships later on But Watts who was boasting earlier that the Orient trip was the most successful of the three under his reglm can’t really be overly pleased with his team’s record to date The Cougar attack has been as out of balance as a hippie draw lng through the first 11 games The Cats’ wandering ways can be no better optlomized than by the recent weekend series with the Santa Clara University Broncos in Provo The Broncos thought to be se cond to UCLA on the coast whip ped BYU In the Friday night game 8075 to end a 27 game Cougar The Cougars lost to Oklahoma in the title game of the aforementioned tourney and have dropped other contests to St Joseph’s and number two ranked Houston The biggest headache for Aggie coach LaDell Anderson tomorrow will piobably be a junior Finland Helsinki from by the name of Karl Lilme To say LUmo Is not a fine basketball player Is to say that the sun does not rise in the east (pray foi clouds) As a sophomore last year Liimo was named to the all WAC team while scor lng 136 a game This year he leads the Cats in many categories Including scoring (17 6) and re bounding junior for Marty Lythgoe a ward and Randy Schouten a 60 senior guard are also In double figures with 126 and 12 5 scoring 6-- 8 averages respectively Scott Warner a strapping 67 230pound sophomore and 6-- 0 favorite NOW' the Cactus The Club WAR of ARMAGEDDON 'canEE £5357 Commences AT THE Mon the ’ (hhb — Combo Music by Choiolate Sf'udu ay" Wd Another Big Party (Free Aspirin) FRI & SAT 8:30 FEATURE “SOME LENGTH LIKE SKI ' - Despite fiendish torture dynamic BiC Duo writes first time every time! Bic’s rugged pair of Stick pens w ins ijiam in unending war against ball-poiskip clog and smeai Despite horrible punishment by mad scientists me still writes first time every time And no wonder be-for- 97-9- 1 6-- 7 sophomore Scott Warner a in the post tomorrow 9-- scorer has been hot of late and will senior Jim Eaklns have been wag battle for the start lng a red-ho- t lng center position Warner who scored 29 points In BYU’s last outing against St Joseph’s of Pen nsylvanla Is outscorlng Eaklns on the average 9 8 to 90 theThco5rlnggTriolUofese1nfors Shaler Halimon and Jimmy Smith (235 each) and junior Paul Hoff man 155 Halimon the coleadingscor er leads the squad In assists anci rebounding from his back- COurt “Shay” has had some off nights from the field of late but some ®olld Performances by Smith have - 'teTsmlth Hallman Aw nlrl? USuBy$ CougarS tave WOn 5 The first year at Univac you’ll probably get more out of ns than well get out of you develop as an individual (Well help your education— should you decid° o you won’t call your first year with us an advance seminar (with pay) But that’s what it often amounts to For one thing you’ll learn more about the working aspects of your field here in six months than you could learn in two years of schooling You'll work with men who developed the first computers Men who remain respected authorities in every area of computer technology and who enjoy sharing their knowledge with the young You'll be faced not with busy work but with projects that demand innovation and imagination If during that initial 12 months you happen to make a significant contribution you'll be rewarded accordingly But the point is we don't expect it All we expect is that you keep an open ear and an open mind that you work hard to study) Go to work in the big league Tvun Cities— DATA PC io n far " Pont I9t Bit fine Punt nroa r wrest PROCESSING AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SPERRY RAND Widium h j the business industrial and technical center of the Upper Midwest Sign up today for an murvi w with Univac Twin Cities A schedule has been posted in your placement office FILM jf The utairs will trv thelr 63rd win ln aa BY -- man the next scorers aresopho more guard Paul Jeppesen 66 junior center Jessie Jefferson forward Tom Stewart 50 ° center Tim Tollestrup 32 and Dick Wade 29 The aHotf! Bic’s "Dy annte” Ball is the haidest nut d made encased in a $100 ee oppose Jessie po-te- hlgh-scho- Old Main Auditorium PRESENTED likely Jefferson M P s to beat the Earnest Ramble: s pplrg their and then turn fast b lng around to fast break often “I saw this Roberts boy play I and I was very Impressed don’t think we can stop him We just plan to do the best we can on Roberts and key on Gra ham to hold their scoring punch I watched the ramblers down eanier this season and I was quite impressed” Lamest said The Kittens are led by Bart Johnson a 66 forward who was one of the most sought after play ers ln the country last year He was a fli at team all American seleition at Tor ranee Ca’u" j h and has lived up to his reputation both on and off the court and BYU “He Is the leading Kitten point getter with a 305 norm Steve Kelly a 63 guard is the second leading scorer averaging 110 Vamlo a 69 Others are Velk-Finland product at 10 5 and Jim Miller a guard who scores at a 10 4 clip I Saturday January 6 8:00 from n jaybe w away fiosh record Harley and M t v have a well balanced supporting cast with Dave Nielsen (H 7) GiryAnder-seJ (11 0) i 'iidersen(91) 3 have de The Ram feated Idaho Stati ley Junior College and the Hill Air Force Base and lost to the University of Utah Frosh Y’s Kittens have coasted to their 20 record by trouncing Snow College and Idaho State Comparittve scores Indicate an edge to BYU as they downed ISU 101 to 65 while the young Aggies found them a little stickler e winning 91 to 78 Young Gary Earnest a former cage star with the Cougar var slty has been the freshman coach at Brigham Young for the last three years and lias a career record of 35 wins and only six losses His team beat the Ramb lers three times last year by scores of 13296 89 70 and 1 COLD” IT ) 1 solid brass nose cone Will not skip clog or smear no matter Dick Barrymore’s bi-e-n 6 res- the boards His imphim an outstanding only rebounding average for a forward but his driving tendencies have forced defenders into fouls that are practically unavoidable In the Idaho State game alone he scored 13 of his 25 points from the foul line in 17 attempts But Harley's most satisfing moment probably came in December when he scored 23 points against the Utah freshmen w his first game against Kenny Gardner Harley’s performance obviously outdid Gardner’s seven points in a game in which Mi player was as captain of his team but the Ramblers serving came out on the short end of the score for their only defeat Graham or Gardner? It’s a tough choice but we’re sure our since the early coaching days of Pete Wltbeck now assistant to Stan Watts at BYU that 1 Utah State frosh crew has ba 1 t 1 (YUklttens s led by the But the twin scoring ol Man Roberts and Harley Graliam hope to end that draught These two have t soring duo formed a jn lour games " 7 'units per City 102-6- Pt I It hasn't ms-'- DIVISION EMPLOYER MF |