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Show Arizona, ASU Win One| Wildcats Edge Past Lobos oin t Thrillers ASUTrips Pokes HERALD _ In 69-68 WAC HoopTilt | In 92-91 Contest TUCSON. Ariz, (UPI) —Uni-/Dick Root, who suffered a cut!followed by Ron Sanford with TEMPE ming shots and scoring the D- y- snapped'on the chin, a mild concussion 20. New Mexico's 17.game winning!and a chipped tooth. Root’ s The win left Arzona with a streak Saturday night, with a/substitute. Gordon Lindstrom, |23 Western Athletic Conference’ later received a cut over his|record and a 9-9 over-all record. |—— slim 63-68 victory Two Arizona players were in-'right eye and had to leave the New Mexico is now 41 in the WAC and 17-1 over-all jured in th- rough contest, and/ game. New Mexk: player Greg) There were 17 personal fouls The first half was a see-saw battiz throughout, but by halfHoward was ousted from the cal‘ed on each team. game with 15 minutes to go for The only player seoring in\time Arizona held a $731 ad- NDA ND Y, FEEBRUAI with four with several crucia; points mid. the second half and finseconds remaining, The6-foot-2 wayin sophomoreguard dribbled to his ished with 24 for the game. Hal! had 34 for Wyr ning, folleft and shot over the outstretchlowed by Carl Ashley with 20 jed arms of Bob Wilson to jelinch ASU's first conference and Stan Dodds with 17. The win raised ASU's season mark win of the saason, to 7-1l and gave them a 14 Hill had saved the game thre> WAC mark. Wyoming is now 14 and 3-2 in league comlast minute, blocking two Wyo- petition. times for the Sun Devils in the} S-over-all Casper Leads Hope Golf | Meet Players Jackson Paces Utes To 106-92 Win PALM SPRINGS,Calif, (UPI) —Billy Casper, shooting for his second successive win of the new golfing year, fired a fourunder-par 68 Saturday for a 72hole totel of 279 and a one stroke lead in the 90-hole, $122,000 Bob Hope Desert Classic. Right on his heels with just! ‘one more round to go Sundayin’ this marathon tournament at 280 was Arnold Palmer, runner- Recently in the BYU student newspapera letter to the editor from “A Tired Cougar”criticized Stan Watts, the BYU head basketball coach. The letter was typical criticism that many amateurs haye leveled at Stan. Of course, coaches are used to this type of criticism. It’s all part of the game. I don’t know of any coach who doesn’t have critics. Name the best coach in the world, whoeverhe is, and he’s got plenty ofcritics, So the letter was up last Sunday to Casoz in the Los Angeles Open, Palmer shot nothing unusual. a fourth round 71, one-under-par However, there was a at Bermuda Dunes, one of four reply to the letter which courses in use for this was most interesting and tournament. unusual. Some of Stan’s Bunched at 281 and crowding former players promptiy Palmer were Gay Brewer, the = replied with a gun barrel Masters champion, with a full of facts. fourth round 71; Canada’s The reply was signed George Knudson with a 70; by Neil Roberts, Jim Harold Henning of South Africa Jimas, and Gary Hill, all with a 69 and young Tom members of the BYU Weiskopf with a 72. Three strokes off the pace at SCOTT WARNER, B‘U’s reserve team for the past three Years, and who are in a 282 were Australia’s Bruce make back-handed pass over the head of Devlin, Lee Trevino and Sergent, 12, moves in, Watching action . good position to know a NW Charles Coody. Cougar forewards, (Herald Photo by about Stan’s coaching. Top prize here is $20,000, the STAN WATTS The letter is printed same as Casper won at Los in full here, in order to give other amateur critics Angeles last week, He is nine a little food for thought. under par for the tournament. “Yd like to be able to shoot} “Dear Tired Cougar: “We understand you are a senior at Brigham the same way tomorrow,” he said, a very simple card. Young University. We hope your academic pur- I hit “Iallhad greens and had four suits have been less tiring than your analysis of birdies.” our basketball program. May we remind you of Henearly holed his approach the following facts: shot for an eagle three on the * When you were a freshman, our basketball 18th green but the ball stopped By JOE WATTS fee a coe cent from oe team won the Western Athletic Conference. a foot and a half short ofthe Ziditor fou! . outreboun * When you were a sophomore, our basket- cup and he sank it for a birdie He ore the 66ers 69-62. four. He had birdie putts of 14 ball team won the NIT Championship. feet on the second hole, 15 feet You could tell what kind of| It was a hot shooting spurt * When you were a junior, our basketball on the 12th and 14 feet on the a gameit was going to be when|by Doug Howard that carried team was Co-Champion of the Western Athletic Tith. the crowd responded to the in-|the Cougars past the 66ers Conference. troduction of the visiting Phil-|shortly after intermission. Durlips 66ers with a rousing round|ing the first four and a half * During this three year period, our basketof applause—a reception some-|minutes of the second half he ball team, playing the best collegiate teams in what out of the ordinary for a/scored 10 points which was the! America, had an overall record of 59 wins and 22 visiting team, major force in giving BYU a BYU Stops Phillips 66 O1 ers 10 1-89 If “A Tired Cougar” were to play Russian Roulette with that gun-barrel full of facts he would be dead on the first shot. The letter is pretty well put. If you want to argue about Stan Watts’ coaching record maybe you had better take up the cudgel with some ama- teurs. At least don’t tackle the protlem with Stan’s players. They know the facts. Ttmust also be a source of satisfaction to Stan when former players speak out in his defense. Certainly they didn’t have to. At the beginning of this season only five active coaches in the nation had won morecollege basketball games than Stan Watts. They were Adolph Rupp of Kentucky with 760 wins in 37 years; Iba of Oklahoma State with 731 wins in 87 years; John Wooden of UCLA with 438 wins in 2) years; Jack Gardner of Utah with 428 wins in 24 years; and Meyer of DePaul with 405 wins in 25 years. Stan Watts has won 853 games in 18 years. All of his college coaching years have been at BYU. Going into this season he had a 353-202 won-lost record for a percentage of .684, And to close off this column I will answer a question that has confronted me nearly every day since taking up the typewriter here at the Herald. No, Stan and | are not related, except that we both have the samelast name and both love basketball, son caughtfire for 16 points in| Jeppesen ‘a rally that saw the Utes leave the floor at halftime with a 59-55 formance by Utah State’s| Shaler Halimon who connected’ for 31 points, including 18 in| ithe second half, are recognized as one of the top AAU teams in the nation, Mickey Wittman, who played his college ball at University; of Miami, was the top player ‘on the floor with 29 points, 22 ‘of which camein the first half. NEW YORK (UPi) — West-| College’s Ken Hall has! He also led the visitors in re- inster bounding with 12 takedowns, Little six-foot guard Harold} Sergent, the Most Valuable} The natural rivalry was not| 660 lead after which they Player in the AAU Tournament) last year, plunked in 20 points| there. The old “do or die for|never trailed. F Siwash High” was not there, The 66ers were comprised of for Phillips on 10 of 21 field Tenessee 88 Mississippi 46 The refs have never had it|former collegiate players and| goal attempts. Sergent played North — St, 60 al 53} s0 good. ee college bal! at Morehead State Colege in Kentucky, Creighton | a ° Miami Ohio 84 Ohiv U. 82 89Incidentally, BYU won 101- Wasps Win Bill Kusleika had 18 points Purdue 98 Northwestern 89 for the 96ers. He played colIt was a good ball game. Arizona St, 92 Wyoming 91 lege ball for Tulsa, ‘There were some especially UCLA 101 Southern Cal 67 ‘There was a crowd of 8,351 pretty plays, and at times the San Francisco 65 San to watch the Cougars in their’ action was down rignt exciting) Jose St. 65 first home game after five despite the ‘“meaninglessness” Slippery Rock ‘4 Lock Haven 67 outings on the road. of the game, Temple 61 Villanova 52 Last Non-League Game The biggest yell of the night Canisius 103 Wayne St. 81 For BYU it marked the final Rebels an 87-81 By RAY SCHWARTZ came at the final buzzer as The Wasach Wasps moved non-league game of the season. Veikko Vainio scored on a seconds to Kentucky 109 LSU % play. At Kari Liimo put the Cougars their league record to five The Cougars new face their Louisville 81 Cincinnati 65 Davidson 91 West Virginia 77 over the century mar‘ with a straight wins without a loss most crucial games ¥f the enbase line jump shot, N. Carolina 73 Maryland 67 Friday night with a thrilling 70- tire year as they wind up WAC. N. Carolina St. 78 Clemssn 66 Coach Stan Watts took the|69 overtime win over the strong play at Utah, then at home Florida 91 Vanderbilt 8 game somewhatlike the crowd.|Morgan Trojans in Heber City, against New Mexico, Wyoming, Virginia 9 Navy 80 During the first half he seldom) Morgan held a 4945 third and Utah, and then to Arizona |OklahomaCity 92 Loyola La, 77 left his seat and his second/ quarter lead but the Wasps ral- State and Arizona. Tulane 99 Miami Fla 88 inary |was still bleal string played almost as much/lied to tie the score at the end The Cougars are playing ‘The game was a Ohio St. 86 Wisconsin 64 as his first unit, of regulation play at 62-62, their finest ball of the year. match to the BYU-Phillips| Frosh, until they | |Michigan St, 82 Michigan 77 However, at intermission the| In the overtime period Wa- ‘They have “peaked” and are 66’ers game and the win gives|with their unbeli Nebraska 63 Oklahoma St, 62 Phillips 66ers were ahead 55- it a the narrow one hoping to stay that way for Coach Gary Earnest’s Kittens Texas Tech 83 TCU 65 a 6-8 record for the season. Box Score the next six contests. 50 and at times in the first| Pout a Chris Dowling paved the way BYU KITTEN GFP Arkansas 70 SMU 68 half had led by as much as 14) Stan McGuire had 26 points points, and so in the second for the Wasps and George Wil- Box score: for the 6-9 Vainio to score the|Clark ... -3 147 Dartmouth 74 Brown 08 BRIGHAM YOUNG winning basket when he canned LeSueur 6 254 Columbia 69 Princeton €0 half Watts stuck with his first] S00 scored 18 points. ; FRP G two free throws with four sec- | Vainio 7 2916 Army 95 Syracuse 75 unit until the game was out of| It was the second Pops 348 15 onds to go in the battle that|Challis . - 661016 Comell 43 Penn 41 reach at about the three min-| tilling ball game of sea5611 2 was tight and hard-fought all Kelly ate mark. son between the two schools .3 6462 Yale 8 Harvard 76 2214 12 the way. Dowling 2 6810 Holy Cross 89 Boston Coll, While the game started out with Wasatch barely ete & 112 7 After Dowling’s two foul Bennion ... 2367 56 5 19 pitches had moved the Kittens Whittemore 0 0 park the two teams got fired|°"™** vor ow 2 0) to within one point of Dixie—|Plggren -1002 up in the second half and at/The box score: 22 4 87-86—the Rebels took the bail|Hora ... . eee moments the stroll seemed to! wasaTCH G F2e 12 8 9| out of bounds at the North be in Central Park. McGuire « 9 8-12 26 442 8) end of the court. With the Kit-| TOTALS ...., 31 26-49 88 BYU’s Marty Lythgoe had! Wilson 6 4 B 222 4 tens pressing furiously all over 047 4 FRANKFURT, Germany high point honors for the home| McKenzie the floor, the Dixie pass in-|DIXIE REBELS GFP . 0 a TOTALS (UPI)—Former world light team with 23 points on 9 of 20|Scofield . 38-91 25-29 69 101) bounds went half the length of|Hales .. -7 0814 heavyweight champion Harold field goal attempts, but sopho-| Yazzie 400 8 the floor. Greg Clark inter- Franson . 5 Wt Johnson of Philadelphia won a more guard Doug Howard also| Mitchell - 0 911 9} PHILLIPS 66ers |cepted the ball for BYU at|Martineau 4 008 unanimous 1¢-round decision put on a dazzling shooting dis-|Knight .. 424 10 P mid-court. | Bunker : 7 O11 over European champion Lothar | play with 7 of 14 attempts from| oe West ...., -WsW6 3 The clock didn’t start run-|Bascom 300 6 ‘Stengel Saturday night, the field and five for five from| Totals .........+++ 23 24-38 70) Wittman 10-20 9-10 12 29 \ning until Clark touched the Milne 000 0 | A | Schull . Johnson, who weighed 170! the line for 19 points. 5 ball and he whipped the sphere| Gornichee . 6 0B via Sergent pounds, knocked the German Kari Liimo and Jim Baking MORGAN 20 half the length of the floor to| Courtright . 000 0 4 9-14.17 Frink 2 Vainio, who was standing |Howell . down in the second round and were also in the double figures Taylor . 3107 0 O1 6 Kusleika . 18 alone under the basket. Vainio| Nielson had little trouble with Stengel,| with 1§ and 12 points respec-| parnes 7 135 Rees 324 8 |Baker 2 whirled and dropped the baill who suffered his first defeat tively, ll 13 3 Skarcenski after 13 victories. Stengel, 168,) The Cougars shot 42 percent) Porter 8 into the hoop for the winning/TOTARS ...,........ 43 $8 87 5 78 17 Rose 2 two points, had a 13-year advantage over) from the field and a hot 9 Fisher —— the Syearolé Aiersom ring percent from the foul line. The Terry Nielson, sparked a late) Halftime score— Dixie \G6erg shot 87 percent from the! Totalg .......ces. 25 19-30 69 \TOTALS 33-89 23-31 53 89 Dixie swge that gave the Kitteng 41 veteran, b Zé 5 F :os Collegiate HoopScores hg 3 Westminster Ace Averages 31.9 Kittens Nip Dixie In Overtime 88-87 Court Thriller as z Tilt 70-69 i seal a é% Gary Hill Neil Roberts With the Utes trailing 38-28) Aggi mid-way in the first half, Jack- : g°is Jim Jimas Jackson's 40 points was th ‘best scoring output of his var- sity career and he contributed’ 13 crucial rebounds as the Utes ed back from an early 28 become bed-ridden. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — mooth Mery Jackson fired in 4) points to lead Utah to a 106. ¥ team has won 10 games and lost 5. (When the letter was written.) If this record has caused you so much fatigue, we suggest you transfer to another WAC school, get a supply of pills for your tired blood and Over Utah State Ags ae * During this three year period, our basketball team made two foreign tours winning 43 games and losing 6. * During the five year existence of the Western Athletic Conference, our basketball team has the best home and road record in the WAC, winning 33 games.and losing 17. The next best record is held by New Mexico with a 25-25 record. * During the five year existence of the WAC, our basketball team is the only team that has not experienced a losing season in the WAC. During these five years, our basketball team has defeated Utah eight times while losing twice. * During the current season, our basketball omore guard, came through Sun Dev- ils had called timeout With 59 seconds to go, New “A Tired Cougar” Gets A Straight Answer school single mark. s total included 24 in the half and 15 of 16 free Jay Arnote, a soph throw- in from Rich Johnson after the Mexico had whittled Arizona’s lead own to one point, but the’ Wilcats put the game out of reach with three points, BY JOE WATTS of rday Howard was taken out of the points. Ron Nelson paced Newjof the second half, and was game for an incident involving) Mexico with a 22-point effort, never headed from then on. Cookin’ effort, collecting 35 Western Ath-|s rence win over Wyo- unsportsmanlike conduct on a double figures for Arizona was) vantage. Arizona jumped out personal foul. Roland Stamps who had 14) with 13 quick points in the top |Watts last two fiela goals. nior guard Roger Detter paced Arizona State’ ‘ Arizona sE52 i fve of Z versity as friendly asa stroll in the| Witagainst,Morgan at Morgan Johnson Wins Stengel Fight | |