Show ll'l'V’ Jltl(lll‘lll ’'ytiVy’‘Htiilrtl8rll llTil'lllllllilll'i igyi i f Cites Count on Defense Cougars :Worrj-:Ags -- fDevils Earn Slim Edge tOn Offense £ i ill By John Mooney " f k Tribune Sports Editor Arizona State rates a smidgin better offensively than the inbut vading Utah Redskins Utah’s football team ranks as considerably better defensively and therein may rest the key to vietory in Saturday night’s WAC football game in Tempe t AM I - ‘ i j J' f t The Devils rank as slight favorites to win their first WAC game of the season l U Sun vf j The game shaped as one on all counts a close -- fA ’’H- But the Utes who have come from nowhere' to a contending position in the conference race aren’t the prohibitive underdogs they were when the experts considered this game in the preseason ratings - I 1 'J - 5 vl l L ' tf Arizona State is the No 1 teSfn in the conference in total offense with an average output of 3748 yards a game Utah is No 3 with a 2973 average i'tpff ra'mffeiinfirkliiii ' 'iBamnti w Ymlliibihtilhif irh'W atfi rH A- " r-- ’infhiii Utah quarterback Gary Hertzfeldt Is great man 'on the option play as ho against tougher opponents'"' Arizona State is the No 2 takes advantage of the situation to get a lateral off to a teammate ' pacing team in the league with a 23 average and the UTp are No 3 in passing on the baas of 913 average alt Utah has the second-bepasser in the league and the second-bes- t total offensive passer-runnin Gary Hertz-st - er T - Salt Lake City Utah flut the Sun Devils have the thjrd best total offense star and the No 1 rusher in fullback Tony Ldrick - fcORICK AND Utah’s Allen Jacobs will be pitted as the two best fullbacks in the league But the running balance may swing in favor of the Sun Devils who can count on Charley Taylor 1 the WAC’s No 3 rubber to turn thgr tables Defensively the Utes rate as slightly superior or he keeps the ball himself and tries to move away from defenders and get a good running gain while opponents are looking for a pass USU Recalls or he fakes a handoft arid threatens to run then stops and delivers long to make the most of triple threat play a deadly pass short or Look Out Record Book— Ute on Rampage iahffilmtw Bf&i - - - By Mike Korologos HERTZFELDT rolled up 684 Tnbune Sports Writer yards in 1961 1056 last year and — Friday Morning — November 1 1963 Page D 5 550 going in Saturday’s Arizona Ddn Dublinski Step aside Tom for a total of 2290 Rydalch and Lee Grosscup — State game the mark of smashing yards Gary Hertzfeldt is coming 2137 set by Rydalch from 1951 through to 1953 WITH LITTLE or no fanfare Sports Mirror And the senior signal caller the lanky Utah University has a good shot at Grosscup’s is dosing in on the passing record of most yards seemingly unreachable records gained through the air The Ute established by Rydalch Dublin-sk- i aerialist passed for and Grosscup during the 2226 in his two years yards Tribune Sports Editor Jack Curtis era under a Redskin jersey e He already is Utah’s total offense leader with 2290 TO DATE Hertzfeldt has PROVO— The Cougar marching band was drilling on the yards gained during his three passed for 2024 yards only 202 adjacent parking lot while the BYU football team knocked heads years of competition yards short'of Grosscup’s mark on the sodden practice field ’ by in Misery of 1959 Upset By Marion Dunn Tribune Sports Writer John Mooney He hurled for 701 yards in 1961 889 in 1962 and 434 so far this season In tossing three touchdowns Hertzfeldt against Wyoming brought coach Ray Nagel even with Jack Curtis in that department Each coach had three quarterbacks toss three TD paasses k kAS NAGEL Hertzfeldt Ken all-tim- FLOGAN— Back in 1959 when The sky was overcast and a chill wind lashed the campus Utah State University’s head Jn total defense the Utes are football coach Tony Knap was The few students who ventured to pause between classes or second against Arizona State’s in his first year here as an asdormitories stopped to watch the band perform and ignored the fifth place rating 2448 yards sistant he learned a lesson he determined efforts of the gridders to prepare for Utah State’s to 2914 said he will never forget and invading hordes fourth in defense Saturday his memory will be Utah is IT WAS WARM and dry In the field house and the basketball put to the yearly test against rushing and the ASU had a good assortment of spectators even though the squad is fifth in this category club THE OCCASION in 1959 was ' ' — Utah ranks No 1 in defense Utah State’s seventh game of the first game is more than a month in the future - against passing and Arizona season According to the schedule this is the big fall weekend for (just like the coming one BYU football followers Homecoming generally generates enState is second Saturday) and the opponent was thusiasm on any campus And with the bitter rivals from Utah THIS LATTER statistical1 de- Brigham Young University (just State coming to Provo for the only Big Game of the home sealike the coming one Saturday) partment might favor the Sun son enthusiasm might be expected to be soaring Devils with the Utes more or and the gam was at Provo (just BUT THE COUGAR campus- as we scanned the 'dreary less forced into a passing game liek the coming one Saturday) The Aggips were heavily fa- scene seemed content to take with the injury of Pokey Allen homecoming in measured stride “ vored to beat the Cougars that at least as far as the football game was concerned the running quarterback The Sun Devils still will year BUT things didn’t turn out Oh undoubtedly the social and cultural aspects of home' ' throw the football and their two that way coming will be ii high gear in the next couple of days But as far as any determined campus effort to generate supquarterbacks John Torok and BYU won 18-- 0 and Knap sJohn Jacobs rank right behind said afterward he would never port in a football team goes the Y gridders must feel they are Hertzfeldt fighting this battle on their own forget the day in one touchdowns Curtis game TIIE 6-- 3 for senior from Chico Calif credits Utah’s option series as his secret to success On the option he can' fake to the fullback roll out and pass fake to the fullback and keep fake to the fullback keep and lateral to the halfback keep give to the fullback He handles all factors of the Vierra (against Arizona in 1959) well keeping the defense option And Bill Cravens (against IdaLo “honest” which accounts for his last year) Dave Cunningham 48 yards per game rushing Dublinksi and Rydalch were the erage only ones to nail down three squad fifth av--' best on the Ute Hti — k - WMMESTm ( IN THE FIRST units Arizona State will boast only a edge in the line making the Sun Devils one of smaller lines the Utes have all season The Sun Devils Since then the Aggies have rolled to three straight wins over The big question asked any football writer these days Is the Cougars and Saturday they will be after their fourth in a “What happened to your big Blue Cougars?” 1 rowL ' " And If any writer could answer this question for certain from the Cougar coaches AND THE AGGIES with only he’d deserve the grant-in-al- d back-- d parry a seven-pouna single loss in six tries this fall pull among the starters There have been years when the BYU manpower was below) the alternate units Utah are favored to beat BYU 4 to Chick Atkinson for one had some poor physical specimens par back-firf- d date but there is no wifi carry a d sign of y few in number who were t on the campus here edge and the ASU line a That 1959 upset is still on the BUT IN THE 25 years we have watched the Cougar hopes bulge minds of the Aggie coaching soar and crash we’d have to admit the material wasn't that bad This will be the closest phsyi-cstaff every year matching the Utes have Since the Cougars started football in 1922 only two coaches KNAP HAS HAD his gridders faced this year can boast winning records- - G Ott Romney coached 10 years in secret this drills working There will be one change In week and and finished with a (538) markr Eddie Kimball the curscrimmaged the freshthe backfield BYU coached seven years and left with with Richard men at rent athletic director and Wednesday Tuesday Groth getting his first serious (514) mark nights' But he doesn’t know a offensive test as the quarterto what BYU quite expect from Coach Hal Kopp served three years and left with a back of the second unit Hertz- since the have installed Cougar (483) to 1 moves standing No feldt up quarter- a new offense back with Allen's injury Of all the teams in the area who played through the Rocky “We’ll just try to be'ready for ASU HAS BUT one serious In anything and everything and Mountain Skyline and WAC leagues BYU is the only university jury with fullback Ed Mauck hope we can contain them" he that hasn’t won a football championship sidelined with a dislocated said shpulder Utah’s Adam Cato and “I think we will be ready Bruce Day may not be up to full If we had to make an attempt to justify our predictions on strength “Bill Munson has looked good the high finish of the Cougars we’d have to alibi the squad in practice but we still have enough to be a contender just doesn’t seem to be “gung-ho- ” some problems' to iron out and Now there are a number of athletes on the BYU squad I'm sure we are in for a real rugged game Saturday” he this year who are willing to “Do or die for Dear Old Siwash” added You never indict an entire squad for lack of hustle or desire The $64 Question four-poun- d SHOTGUN SHELLS' SHOTGUNS WINCHESTER SMHUtr'j 12 GA! 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