Show 1 Page September 28 8 :j 90 SCGuG fMWo dwv M less ini? ©535307 has go With only five days of practice jcjsfiffirfcn under their belts Utah State’s freshman football team is busily preparing for its season opener Oct 10 at Snow Junior College Grid coach Garth Hall entering his second season as head frosh tutor has enlisted some 42 players to the frosh ranks with of the 42 being enrollees ‘‘We have a lot better kids this season than we’ve had in the “it's too early past” Hall echoed to tell now but I feel that we’ve By Greg Hansen ’Life Sports Editor LARAMIE Utah State’s 12 out-of-sta- Wyo -- Although win over 33-1- 4 Green ten days ago didn’t exactly set the nation’s sports experts scurrying to Logan for possible Heisman trophy candidates the (then) Aggies hoped that they’d opened a few doubting eyes with the victory Instead the Aggies found themselves enshrined in the ‘Top Ten’ make that the Or rather Bowling Top prize in the lot could be 200 pound offensive guard Kenny Nelson No Qualifications Met Aggie grid coach Chuck Mills dismay knew well that the Utags meet no requirements of the Bottom Ten It should be a good year at Aggieville providing there is no injury plague in the future to his Rebounding in the second half against Bowling Green Aesop’s Fables couldn’t have dreamed up a better finish for the USU victory High school teammates Bob Wicks and John Strycula ran from Utah Layton Nelson rated second in the entire nation for his blocking ability e was a concensus pick and received the Thom McAnn in award as top athlete-schola- r the state all-stat- ‘Bottom Ten’ Steve Harvey writing for the Philadelphia News released his weekly Bottom Ten poll of which the Aggies ranked seventh Last year USU finished in the top five and or is it the bottom five were called everything from ‘highly unregarded’ to ‘bottom of the barrell’ te got the makings of a good club" -1 a Bill Tripp linebacker comes to USU with very impressive credentials Tripp was voted the ‘Lineman of 185-pou- LOOKING FOR DAYLIGHT USU’s John Strycula (16) cuts up field for 33 yards in Bowl’Forzani (60) and Kevin Johnson (76) (’Life ing Green win Blocking for "Strike” are John photo by A1 Reiner) successive punts 85 and for touchdowns and a 73 12-1- letterman Dennis Fergusen and yards newcomer Bob Bloom hijacked Falcon passes Bloom weighing in at only 175 pounds appears to have won himself a long look at the cornerback position The Aggie secondary is loaded with talent in Bloom Washburn Bob Galeazze Ty Couey Fergusen Wayne Stephens Wendell Brooks Gerald Brown and Tom Parker Offensively Utah State has an USU 4 deficit turned into a 4 victory Ironically both threw key blocks to spring the other loose for his touchdown jaunt 33-1- Depthful Secondary Three Utag pass interceptions any Bowling Green comeback threats in the final half Dale Washburn as halted tri-capta- in offense of the future with all three backfield starters and four receivers being top Sophomore Tony Adams and man the junior Craig Smith ' while ton po quarterback L backs Giles John running Homes and Joe Strycula Jerry Wide Corey are all juniors receivers Bob Wicks Bain Brick and Tom Forzani will all be back next year as will tight ends Mike Corrigan and Steve Kinney The center position is very deep juniors A1 Faccinto and Terry Littledyke and sophomore Wes Miller Miller has been the most-use- d pivot man The Aggies will host Wichita State this Saturday at 1:30 pm in ‘Fill the Stadium Day’ Wichita dropped its opener to Texas A&M but defeated Arkansas State Bill Dunstan Dale Washburn Chosen as leader tri-capta- in the Year’ in Orange County Calif an honor that has to rank with the most prestigous Other out-of-sta- gridders te such as halfbacks Craig Clark (Baldwin Park Calif) John Young (Calgary Canada) and Kenneth Hill (Grand Junction Color) form an impressive list of future Utah State varsity hopefuls with New 197Q Craig Sorensen former Logan High fullback is making the transition to quarterback and will battle Jim Quigley of Millard Utah and Arnie Zimmerman of McDermitt Nev for the starting job Other local prospects include outside receiver Roy Packer of Logan and lineman Val Dawson also of Logan' Sky View High grads Mont Jessop and big fullback Doug Pehrson are also rated high on the frosh grid ladder “We will be at a big disadvantage when we open against Snow because they will have already played four games” Hall noted” But by our final game (Nov 6 against Utah) we should have a good football team” John Forzani letterman Two-yea- r Dunstan Washburn Forzani: Ag leaders Wandering from the traditional college habit of selecting cogrid coach captains Chuck Mills announced that the 1970 Aggies would be captained team by a three-maDefensive back Dale Washburn defensive tackle Bill Dunstan and offensive guard John Forzani were selected by a vote of their teammates early in September Washburn one of USU’s prime prospects for the winter pro grid drafts was a starter at the safety position last year and through the first two games of the '70 season te n - ranked high in USU defensive points Included in his highlights was a clutch second half pass interception against Bowling Green A senior history major Wash- knee injury suffered against burn hails from Los Angeles Calif and is an honor student Dunstan USU’s Army last year strongest physical football player is a two-yeletterman but has been nagged by recurring injuries After two games the strongman ranks second in USU defensive points with a beautiful blocked kick to his credit against Bowling Green ar 225-poun- d Dunstan is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and is another top pro prospect Forzani younger brother of former USU great Joe Forzani is bouncing back from a severe An offensive guard and a good one John’s younger brother Tom is an outside receiver for the Utags but it has been John’s outstanding blocking ability at his guard position that has drawn BOB WICKS eludes Bowling Green the raves thus far punter and ’ From Calgary Canada John is touchdown to spark USU to its 33-1- 4 w r also a letterman and is Sept 19 Wicks rambled with a physcial education major two-yea- 85-yar- heads fot ” ' £ |