Show Page 18 Student Life — Utah State University Friday Sept 27 Jacobs next kickedoff to Bob by CHRIS PEDERSON Sports Editor ' Wyoming’s by CHRIS PEDERSON Utah State's football team christened their new stadium and opened their regular season in a big way by rolling over the Aggies of New Mexico State lop-side- 2812 The Big Blue displayed a hot ! ‘ ancold offense throughout the game with quarterback John Pap crew pas sparking his te I ' to touchdown drivers of 66 57 58 and 55 yards Outside of these scoring series the offensive squad was in a stalemate with the New Mexico defense Utag wonder duo John Pappas and Mike O’Shea combined for two tallies The first came mid way in the first quarter on a fiveyard pass up the middle to “Magnificent Mike” in the end zone Tod Ortlip converted for the extra point With less than a minute left in the first quarter Pappas once again hooked up with the hands of O’Shea this time in the right corner from five yards out Altie Taylor broke open these run cond quarter on a s up the’ sidelines to paydirt toe put the Utags over the Las Cruces Team by 21points before the visiting squad removed from the score their goose-eg58-yar- Cow ul boys stunned an overanxious team from Utah State last SatJacobson passed urday with an alert defensive Cowboys toSkip Gene Huey in the end complete offense unit and an aggressive zone for another six score in the points The The game conversion was again success was 483 The ’Poke defense broke open ful Utah State’s offensive line was what was previously a somewhat to hold the tough Wyom unable in contest the midway tight 143 second quarter by recovering two ing defense In fact the ’Staters fumbles both within ten yards of were dropped for a minus 104 yards rushing the goaline Jess Garcia was the lonescor Ed Synakowski and Skip Jacob son took charge of the UW of er for the Utags His toe en fense upon these recoveries and abled the visiting Ags to grab added another 14 points to the three points with a 24yard field goal This conversion came with Wyoming cause all within a peronly five seconds left in the of 26 seconds iod The first Aggie fumble came first quarter Chuck Detwiler Dana Schulz about when USU quarteback John Pappas was thumped on his own Doug Gosnell and Chuck Myrick well for Utah State on threeyard line by George Keller performed was paced de Defense Wyoming was man The ball jarred loose and Frank Pescatore swallowed fensively by Jim Stankus All America candidate Jim House it for the Laramie crew Fullback Dave Hampton cut Larry Nels and George Keller man around the left corner and scoot One spark of light in favor of Bob to ed three yards paydirt the Big Blue was John Pappas’ Jacobs’ try for the conversion Sports Editor ' ever-powerf- Peters who took the ball on the goaline Peters fumbled the ball when he reached the nine and then Tony McGee recovered for the d passing arm was successful d Ort-lip’- s g board The New Mexico Aggies’ first tally came at the close of the half behind the flashy running of tailback Ron Po James The freshman ran over left end and scored ona42yarddash Roy Gerela’s kick for the extra point was wide Bill Byrd closed the gap on the Logan crew even more in the third quarter on a power run over right tackle from one yard out Their attempt for a twopoint conversion failed Utah State’s final score was set-uwhen defensive end Phil Olsen blocked a field goal at line tempt on the USU The Ags drove to the ten were Pappas faked to Frank Nunn and pitched to Taylor on the right for six points Again Ortlip’s boot PICK UP 195-pou- YOUR Utag hopeful Chuck Detwiler combined with the rest of the Utah State defensive unit to stymie the opposition in their first two games of the season p 45-yar- Good for 1 Lube at $175 and lc per gal Discount lfornia d QB Is Star (Continued from page 15) was good field coach A1 Prukop has chang Prukop who could pass as a member of the Aggie quar terback corps preaches what he practiced He was a fine quar terback in his collegiate days at the University of Southern Cal In the pass reception departMike O’Shea buried the rest of the field by gaining 128 yards and scoring two touch downs He was followed by Hay ward Findlay of NMS with 73 yards to his credit ment ed that Shine on Campus “COACH PRUKOP taught me more in one year than I nearn ed in all my previous football ex perience” says Pappas “He brought to light many facets of the game that I didn’t even re alize existed He has been a great aid in helping me learn a lot of little things I was taking for granted in the past Such things as footwork getting away from the center quicker and par ticularly my faking which I have to admit was pretty bad” Pappas who not too long ago became a father for the third time has played quarterback throughout his career “But all my coaches had been linemen and couldn’t work with me on the finer points of the position” What seemed often to be a dor mant potential has simply been developed by Prukop JOHN WAS redshirted in 1965 after showing fine ability in tos sing for seven TDs as a fresh man the year before He displayed great poise in 1966 his sophomore year elig ibilitywise when he spelled the NEW EQUIPMENT RECENTLY INSTALLED injured Ron Edwards and led the Aggies to four straight season ending wins Last his first with year Prukop he was a big cog in the Ags’ 721 season finishing 18th among the major college passers As mentioned John’s perfor mance in the Wyoming game net ted him career records for most passes thrown (356) and passing yardage (2323) He is flirting with the school marks for most completions and most total offensive yardage Add to this the fact that USU has been a loser in only four of the 17 games John has started 925 North Main John Pappas is just an ordinary everyday runofthemill college 111! 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