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Show 1 DESERET NEWS PREP POLL Sky View, Darn It, Obtains No. Ever hear of a prince refusing to be coronated, a guy turning down a $1 million inheritance, Notre Dame balking when asked to accept the national championship? At No. 1 On the prowl for Skyline defnse, Les England is one of many reasons the Eagles own the state's No. 3 ranking. ,C Fiesta Choice A Circus Look The Western Athletic ConferPHOENIX, Ariz. ence battle for a Fiesta Bowl spot Dec. 23 in Sun Devil Stadium could turn into quite a circus. Wyoming started the Ringling Brothers act when it upset Arizona State, a team which was supposed to go undefeated and win its fourth WAC title despite playing one less game than top contenders. The only other school which, like ASU, plays six league foes instead of seven, is Colorado State. If the Rams ) were to win, it would defy all miracles of mathematical chance. That goes double for UTEP (0-2- (0-2- is in the race, the Brigham Young ) chances than Arizona less are realistic Cougar and Mexico Utah New ) Wyoming Right now', it appears that any team which loses two WAC games is sending a Fiesta Bowl gift to Arizona State. Although (1-0- (2-0- ), (2-1- ), (1-1- ). (1-1- The Cougars face Saturday, and wind up the season with three straight WAC road games at Tucson, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque. likely gave up its big chance for glory the Cowboys lost to New Mexico at Laramie their ASU spectacular. Wyoming, too, winds up three straight WAC road games to Provo, Salt City and Tempe. Wyoming when after with Lake Utah, Arizona In Best Spots That leaves Utah and Arizona the most likely con- tenders, at this point, for the WAC title and a Fiesta Bow l berth. Both have rather favorable schedules. The hub for Utah is this Saturday (1:30 p.m.) at Laramie. The Utes should win, but Wyoming is fighting for its WAC life, too. After Wyoming, Utah is at home against New Mexico, Arizona, Brigham Young and Colorado State. Arizona also plays four of its last five WAC games at home. The Wildcat hub is at Utah, Nov. 4. But Arizona State visits Tucson, Nov. 25. a State tussle Saturday During the came up with braintrust scribe the sports night, these most likely situations. Utah could lose to Wyoming, w'in the rest and finish 15-Arizona could lose to Utah and Arizona State and Wyoming could beat Utah and lose to Arizona ;end ASU to beat UTEP, New Mexico, BYU ;and finish and Arizona and win the title. Arizona Utah could win all the rest and finish finish and State Arizona to lose could Utah, upset 1 by beating both Utah Wvoming could sneak in at and Arizona. Utah-Arizon- 5-- 6-- 6-- 6-- WAC Lists Fiesta 'Ifs' No. 1: The club which won the game played will go. tween the be- tied in their game, the team with the best overall record will go. No. 3: If overall records are identical, the team which has not participated in a bowl for the greatest length of time shall go. race Supposing it boils down to an overall record lost three have Both Arizona. games. and between Utah Arizona's remaining outside game is this Saturday at Lubbock against tough Texas Tech. Utahs only outside 11 at Logan. game left is against Utah State Nov. The Utah State-Uta- h rivalry could loom bigger than ever. The Aggies might be in a position to spoil Utah s .Fiesta Bowl bid. There are rumors here that Arizona State would got not shed crocodile tears if the Sun Devils went other bowl bid, and turned the Fiesta Bowl over to another WAC club. Of course, the WAC champ is committed to the Phoenix appearance. 10-- 1 he does not seem to be crying either. Bowl turn into league is not anxious to see the Fiesta AStates 12th game each year. 39.000-plu- s No matter which WAC club is there, the The long-gonare sale tickets available for public two the contesting divided among other 20,000 are teams and seven other conference members. The v WAC 1 If anyone is going to spurn the prestigious position its 0 It should come as some Everything was calm in the fifth place ranking. Bountiful made the biggest advancement of the week, rising from ninth to fifth. Skyline and Olympus gained solid support to nail down the third and fourth spots, Provo fell a notch to sixth. East climbed to seventh, Kearns fell four spots to eighth, South is ninth. slim edge over Dixie for the 2A lead. Four new clubs made appearances in the rankings, one in each division. And four clubs, Clearfield, Juab, East Carbon and Bingham, fell from the poll. Cyprus replaced the Miners taking the fourth spot. Hillcrest moved to 10th in Richfield slipped into fifth position, and perennial power Monticello gained the in Except for Cyprus shake-uthe only change was American Fork trading Davis places. Pleasant Grove stayed in fifth. p in Class I Angry A's Unleash Gripe - OAKLAND (AP) The Oakland As have staggered the Cincinnati Reds with two quick jabs and now hope to deliver another solid punch in the third game of the Woiid Series tonight. I think we have them on the ropes, said Oakland pitcher Vida Blue. But you cant count the Reds out yet. You cant let up. The surprising American League champions were sitlead in ting pretty with a the 1972 baseball classic as a result of a and victories in Cincinnati over the weekend. In addition, the possibility of stormy weather threatened to further muddle the situation at the soggy Coliseum, where a t crowd of 50.000 will watch the struggle. The National Weather Bureau forecast a 30 percent chance of showers for the contest, which starts at 6:15 p.m., MDT. 2-- 0 2 1 sell-ou- The situation has got the As brimful of confidence. Were handling the Reds easier than we did the Texas Rangers, said Blue, referring to one of the patsy American League teams. had gone ahead of the Reds with a sweep of the first two games in Cincinnati. But if the gaudy, shaggy Athletics should go on to beat the Reds for the World Series baseball it championship, would be a staggering blow to the old theory that success is built on harmony and good will. The sports world perhaps has never experienced a more disgruntled, edgy and unhappy team of winners. Everybodys got a sore toe from the madcap owner, Finley, and the chess-boarmanager, Dick Williams, to the star pitchers and the griping coterie of sure second basemen. Dissension is rampant on the Oakland team, yet the 1890 throwbacks with their handlebar mustaches and irutton-chosideburns continue to win. Mike Epstein, the teams burly first baseman, confronted manager Williams with his displeasure at being yanked r for a in the sixth of inning Sundays game. d p Its one of the mysteries. games great The internal friction came to steamy broil on the Athletics wild overnight charter flight home after the team a 0 pinch-runne- A shouting match ensured. It seems kind said. you dont like my of baseball, Williams I just feel you dont appreciate the way Ive been bust- ing my back for you, retorted. I Epstein dont want it to happen again. Williams paled. Just get your can out to the ball park and be ready to the ball, play manager barked, and walked away. Another bitter incident occurred upon the teams arrival at the airport to be greeted by an enthusiastic welcoming crowd. Some of the weary players sought immediate refuge in the team bus. This irked Finley, who later chewed out the offenders. If there are any players on bus who didn't have enough guts to get on the stand and show their appreciation, I dont want them, he I Sag that said. whole team edgy Williams of practice moving players in and out of the game the way Bobby Fischer handled his knights and queens on the chess board. Particularly involved are the pitchers and second basemen, who say they arent given a chance to gain confidence or a feeling of security. The is over Vida Blues relationship with Williams and Finley has been strained throughout the season. Williams had promised Blue a starting assignment against Cincinnati his mind. more and then changed We decided Blue is in the valuable the manager said. The pitchers discontent is mild compared with' that of Dick the second basemen Green, Ted Kubiak, Tim Cullen and Dal Maxville, who are bull-pe- pawns in Williams s inserting pinch-runner- of game and pinch-hitter- wholesale s throughout the game. Nobody ever knows who is really on second. All of the infielders have complained. Green says he never gets a chance to bat. Maxvill insists he wants to play regularly. Cullen and Kubiak want to be traded. Despite all their troubles, the As are winning. The Reds will get to see anof the Oakland Aces John Blue Moon tonight Odom. The who notched two victories in the American League playoffs against Detroit last week was during the regular season. other one right-hande- r, 15-- 6 Jack Billingham, a righthander who had a record and led the Cincinnati staff in strikeouts with 137 this year, has been nominated to pitch 12-1- 2 Blue Moon Odom for the Reds. . . LSU Leaps To Seventh In UP! Grid Ratings - LouiNEW YORK (UPI) siana State, long in football tradition, has won a national championship only once and that was 1958, the year of Billy Cannon, Johnny Robinson and the Chinese Bandits. tively after remaining undefeated and Alabama was once again third. But Nebraska, looking more and more like last year's national champion, supplanted Ohio State in the No. 4 slot, after destroying Missouri was Michigan sixth, LSU seventh, Notre Dame eighth. UCLA ninth and Colorado tenth. The Buffaloes moved up from 16th after knocking Iowa State from the unbeaten ranks and the lop 20, Only 16 teams received votes as most of the balloting centered around the first eight teams. After Ohio State, it The last six spots in order went to Tennessee, Stanford, Penn State, Air Force, Auburn and Arizona State. opens in Oakland R! 34-2- 62-- But behind quarterback Bert Jones, the 1972 Bayou Bengals, rated the best squad at Baton Rouge in over a decade, are making a strong effort to bring a second national title to LSU. And after upping the nations longest winning streak to nine games by trouncing previously unbeaten Auburn, the Tigers made the biggest gain. this week in the ratings of the United Press International Board of Coaches. over Notre Dame into seventh place, the Bayou Bengals increased their point total from 118 to 170 as the coaches were impressed with their easy 35-victory over Auburn, which slipped from ninth to 15th. Southern California and Oklahoma again were respec Leap-froggin- g 7 WAC moguls have derived the following formula to choose a Fiesta Bowl entry. If two teams tie: No. 2: If the Although Smithfield is far from the bright lights of Salt Lake, and the publicity is always welcome, Lindleys One Region entrant would probably like to do it differently this time. Spot THIRD SERIES CAME TONIGHT George Ferguson m states highest honor. The same is true for South tie with Seviers Class Beaver. The Rams, second a week ago, handed Juab a 46-loss, thereby moving back to the No. 1 spot they held two weeks ago. Beaver, too, is asking whv. They demolished Milford 52-- the high-scorin- g Rating. other two categories with Judge keeping its unanimous vote, and Moab retaining a 21-- 0 48-2- If you have, send it straight to Ripley. And add this memo: Sky View' Angered surprise to Viewmont that they are no longer No. 1. Last week the Vikings rang up a win over Ben Lomond. Thats little reason to vacate going to be Earl Lindleys Bobcats. In 1969 Sky View sat atop the Deseret News Coaches Poll all season. But at stale tournament time Layton disposed of the Smithfield club By GREG HANSEN Deseret News Sports Writer 1 2 UPI Grid Poll - The Press International too maior colleoe NEW YORK (UPI) United football teams with first place votes and won-lorecords in parentheses: (6th week only (6 teams received votes) ' Team Points 1. Southern California 334 (22) (6-- 0 2. Oklahoma (12) (4-324 3. Alabama (1) (SO) 232 4. Nebraska ) 207 5. Ohio St. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 189 ) Michigan ) Louisiana St. Notre Dame UCLA 171 170 13) 28 27 26 (9 ) ) ) Colorado (5-Tennessee ) Stanford (41) Penn St. ) Air Force (5-Auburn (4-- Arizona St. (Only 16 (t 9 ) 8 2 ) yearns received votes) The Pack Is Back! DETROIT - Tho.se (AP) The Pack is Back may not be premature speculation after all. minors that If the Green Bay Packers aren't back as a contending team in the National Football League then why do they own a record to stand atop the National Conference Central Division? Monday night they had a chance to show their stuff before a national television audience, and they used the opportunity to help crack the pessimistic swamis crystal balls. Scott Hunter Quarterback fired a touchdown strike to rookie wide receiver Leland Glass with just 1:54 left on the clock, and rookie Chester Marcol kicked the extra point, to give the Packers a victory over the 24-2- Detroit Lions. Green Bay had trailed nearly the entire game before Marcols closing moments conversion. The Packers trailed at halftime. Then Errol Mann of the Lions and Marcol traded field goals of 45 and 34 yards before Packer respectively cornerback Ken Ellis turned .he game around by racing 80 yards with a punt return for a touchdown. Detroit capitalized on two Packer mistakes to score its first-hal- f two touchdowns. Landry ran around right end from two yards out for a first quarter TD and Altie Taylor plunged off right tackle rt the second period for the other. 17-- 7 AP Grid Poll e The Top Twenty teams, with votes in parentheses, season records and total points. Points tabulated on basis of 948 Southern Californio (28) 2. Oklahoma (20) 930 689 3. Alabama 4. Ohio State (1) 607 601 5. Nebraska 545 6. Michigan (1) 7. Louisiana State 522 473 8. Notre Dame 268 9. Colorado 10. Tennessee 258 235 11. UCLA 12. Penn State 183 160 13. Stanford 14. Texas 07 1 82 15. Auburn 73 16. Air Force 33 17. 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