Show Page 9 mpressiv opponents-- a Utag 6 Student Life — Utah State University 14 1969 Mnrch imtmm crew formidable BY DENNIS Chris FINE Sports Writer Pederson and two mile relays along with the distance medley and sprint r medley relays At American he was named as an all American After he finished at American River coach Biancani went to Sacramento State College where he proceded to win various He was the school re cord holder in the 100 200 and' dashes He was on the record holding 440 880 mile and two mile relays and the dis tance and sprint medleys For a short period coach Bian cani held the world record in the dash He was the win ner and record holder in the in door dash at the San Francisco Cow Palace For two years he was a member of the conference champs mile relay team and second place winner in the dash in the con- Ri-ve- Former Californian A1 Bian cani brings an impressive list of accomplishments to USU as for most of the college basketball track Regulation season play coach Jound the country is over and now is the time that the Biancani started his track ca Sletic sit down and decide upon "All Opponent reer in high school in Califor-niwhere he was named a track Tor some schools this is not an easy task They either After he complet-eschool he attended Ore-gofive from high a difficult time chosing just players high have such a State in Corvallis faced University doesn’t caliber ball of players they caliber of talent or the Oregon He was named the warrant recognition freshman trackman for In the case of our own Utah State the first instance is the year (1959-60- ) one of the The Aggies have just completed appropriate in recent cage history Surely they hae COACH BIANCANI then went bloodiest campaigns to American River Junior College ended the toughest USU slate in many years a "losing” record of in Sacramento California He Though the Utah Aggies compiled said and with a straight was again named as theoutstand-incould it be and 17 losses wins ten ' trackster He held the school that LaDell Andersen’s face charges landed a "winning in the 100 220 and record column then If not a winning season in the w’on-loseason He was also on dashes alone a sinning season by their scheduling the record holding 440 880 mile big-wig- s a d n g 440-yar- d st 440-yar- d 160-yar- d 440-yar- d 440-yar- d ference BIANCANI competed for the Athens Athletic Club of Oakland in the Polish American meet of 1966 He was the Compton Invita-tionwinner in the mile relay and the Rose Bowl Invitational mile relay winner He was the National indoor champ of the sprint medley In 1968 While at USU coach Biancani has been working on a new style al starting block for runners As Biancani explained “The conventional block has only one width and each runner has different width legs If the block is too narrow for him he will stagger out of a start and lose time” The coach’s new block is ad justable for each runner so he can run straight out of the blocks for a fast start Tabs top flight five From their tough slate of opponents five rs were selected to the first live more to the second team top-notc- h playe- team "All Opponent” squad and unanimous choices to the first unit are Notre seasoned star Bob Whitmore and Seattle’s hawk-eye- d little Whitmore saddled the Utags with a Two 26-poi- Dames’ Tommy output and Little was nothing short of sensational with his 41 counters here in Logan last December Others on the first team are JoJo White the Kansas few weeks a nt ago Uni-sersit- y and Olympic star Wyoming and Mike New lin the Carl Ashley g of d from Utah hot-sho- t guard University the quality talent Utah State faced this past season take notice of the team cagers on the USU second team Some of them would most certainly be on the first teams of schools Perhaps the leader of of West Texas State number two unit is center Simmie Hill was last year and should fall into that category again this year In fact this writer has heard Hill called "the greatest post man west of the Mississippi outside of UCLA’s Lew Alcindor” by some of the who’s-"hHill the o in Cross found (St Peters) Kenny Gardner (Utah) Francisco) and Austin Carr (Notre Dame) second five classy opponents of USU (San out the hile the ’s Posit‘on I receive mail from every college we we don’t meet In releases received from aSiS°me irin co“eges I have watched coaches and publicity men men°ur own Marvin Roberts uefi 115 play these alike or Ipse Utah State is always plugged in the person notces t commending his outstanding play as £00c Tea" t sP°rtsmanship Though the "All Opponent ools Rnk°m are ftadv just now being published Ler trtSi ”as made the grade on the list of Montana State s Utti company with such standouts as Tommy Nate Archibald of UTEP and both Willie Soioumij!6’ en n jn 611 al-Ro- be of Weber State "Hf-Thigp- 1 sidelight to the past ll season is the fact that mes Contested were against teams that compete Nra a or NIT this month This toughened tourneys nuj I tough task for a young squad as USU this year b-ba- 0f (jj in the the an stand-ou- t LARRY ALLEN split second place with a Weber State cow-boin the bulldogging Jim Fain publicity director y for the Rodeo Club reported that in addition to Curlock there is another Aggie ranked in ro deo circles Senior Duane Sorensen has the second place spot in the nation as cowboy In two fall rodeos he has accumulated 358 points said Fain Fain said that the first major rodeo action of the season would be at Dixie College in a months time all-aroun- d gave promise of good things to come She captured first in the break-away- roping second in the barrel racing and another second in the goat tying event Miss Curlock is currently sec-onin the nation in the girl’s d Low oxygen is killing local athletic voices have been busy compiling own opponents have been “opponent team of their 01n8 the same themselves ul cow-gi- rl d ior sports Webster Others publish team as SANDRA CURLOCK USU competition The jun has amassed 370 two after fall rodeos points Two Utah State horsemen tied for honors in the ribbon roping event Bill Conrad and Lynn Jensen shared the second place position all-aroun- college Elnardo ete p y To show many The Aggie rodeo club traveled to the Golden Spike Coliseum match Tuesday for a warm-uwith Weber State College The meet included three events each for male and female con testants The events were bull dogging calf roping and ribbon roping for the men while bar-re- l and goat tying racing break-awaroping rounded out the womens’ events fish level Fishery biologists are taking of the snowmobile to reach lakes and reservoirs inaccessable to allow bio logists to check on potential fish kills due to low oxygen levels in the water One of the more important advantage nor-mall- y checks was conducted on Sheep Creek Lake in Daggett County Sheep Creek Lake is important because of the millions of cut throat trout eggs taken there from spawning fish each spring A loss of fish could mean chang es in fish planting plans for the summer THE FEMALE CUTTHROATS which are stripped of their eggs hatch-eries to taken and are fertilized e to hatch and grow to size fish The number of stocked fish would be consider ably lower with a high winter kill on the lake Oxygen tests are being on other bodies of water that may be suffering from low oxygen levels An early report allow officials to make plans for least restocking these lakes of at were waters the warning anglers subjected to winter kill If a water is low in oxygen little can be done to save the fish tried population Biologists have lake the into pumping oxygen snow on the dust coal or spreading and ice covering the lake This has usually been a futile plan-tabl- con-ducte- 3$ iiv : inliurai ikayiEP3 ©© : a§® a© WHOA DOGEY! 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