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Show Cougars Host RhodeIsland ee Denve r Saturday Ry 10K WATTS whenthe r s defense an average The Cougars will go withthesame lineup that tooked so good Araft will Start three freshmen Saturday the forward, Ran Nelson Lopes, a 6-2 center, and fe season and land started the year with a 76-66 wn at home. The Rams then went » 67-65 and $ They returned homete to Beaton College 88-67 nce then hey’'ve beenonthe roadfor lass U Smuthwest Conference champions! Rhode Island, despite ting wilh seven nce opposition and so far the Pioneers have been winless agains teams Lennie Orr, a & senior guard who scored year. is the 38 points agains’ BYU last scorer for Dene lead ing hts is 7.30 with a at 5:15 between and Snow. The WAL straight losses, has visions of a su pason The Rams aren't discouraged have imp! ner 0 and Mark player. and unior college transfer e will pit Orem d considerably since the start Time Out | Thoughts Page 6— ByMIKE TWITTY WAC Teams “BYU Swim+ C6igh Finds Have Big Edge You Can Win By Losing BYU's swimming ieam recently los couple of dual meets to the University of Over Opponents U tah and, believe it or not. the Cougars hadit planned that way! Not to lose. of course, but not neces win The situation stems from Coach Mike Burton's philosophy of training for swim competition. Burtonis one coach at BYU who doesn't get upset about losing to Utah. You see, he thinksit’s possible to lose the battles and win the war Burton's emphasis is on having his swimmers peak for the Western Athletic Conference championships and NCAA meet. As long as there'sSHmprUverent he could care less what the dual meet record is We believe in not ending all our money little by little during the year,” Burton explains. “We'd rather haveit savedfor the WAC meet.” ary With Miami of Ohio la meht in first round of the Sun Bow! AthletiLic Classic the We Tonight's Doane Collegeat Wyoming USC y Denver at BYL this weekend wt pst iS against Seattle Rhode Colorado at Arizona Cal-irvine at Utah hight New Mexico vs. either USC or UTEP’s win last night moved Vanderbilt its record to 7-0 and tonight the Team results so far this season: tonight IFFORD NIELSEN, also a sophomore from Provo High Saturday's Schedule 4104-3. 7 host forward and guard and Denver Saturday Miners will host Texas A&Min Orem Drubs Brighton, 74-56; Hillcrest, Murray Triumph ag with a 4-1 reeord, will by Dea College. and «iu shing press joined some streak shooting to hand Coach Harold Jacklin’s Or Tigers a tnumph 7456 home court the Brighton Bengals Thursday night Lindsay Brown, Parker and Steve bined for eight of Keams, 62-58, M with points Team Murray Provo id surprising Tr, 6067 tting 22 Pet Bm: 2 0 1000 Prove 1 01.000 pm Hillerest 1 Tigers out to lastestthe entir 01000 1 1 500 i} 500 0 2 92 — How can Burton Surprises Peers second half andstill lose Lial Staie s basnetuali teat is pondering that questi His peers expected Burton to be a good college coach eventually but not to tote away the WACtrophyin his first try. This vear the situation and challenge is nearly the same shots but combinedfor only e rebounds Ihe 45 field goal attempts by (lah State is the Aggies lowest total since they tried only 40 after shooting 64.4 per the field and losing shots against New The Cougars had an excellent recruiting year but also lost a lot through graduation and church missions. GF UP New Mexice State when the Aggies shot 67 per cent i414 In the next But Roy Jones a for Or xd ended 50-41 with Saturday Utah State trailed 77 48 left to play 4-64 11-17 12 79 shot, which Rich Haws and ARIZONA(84) NortherHlinois the £CO(42) Cal- Davis New Mexico State al New Mexico St. MURRAY (80) atte lostlook a ut al many of the WAC Monson White Kemp schools are fattening very records against Wilson Totals Seure by quarters. ranger Murray TEP, 5 mw ai 67 16 36 6 60 for played Baptist three playingng tea’ imstance, Ross. Totals Score by quarters Ailicrest i their poor e829 ha AGRI W H64) 4 2W Houston Baptist arent a team of stature, UTEP and UTEP coach Don Cruces. The Miners have Wayland Baptist th Texas St tN} at Creighton at New MexicoState Miami, Ohio Fairbanks Hurt BYU has suffered its first Haskins ought to be embarrassed Fiesta Bow! casually for scheduling suchnon-gam All Western Athletic UTEP's most impressive win nference guard Lloyd of the season is a 48-41 tnumph Fairbanks underwent surgery over New Mexico State at Lu: Thursday for appendicitis and recorded a road win Creighton, 69-63 ArizonaState's 8-0 record seconds Bulldogs made good for two of his orwards sporting test record in the WAC with an 80 mark, is idle this weekend and won't return to action un next week in the Far West Classic at Portland. Ore Totals KEARNS (58) STONE the Southern Vanderbilt Arizona State, record to 2 Vtah State, w story, however a clean sweep BYU (23) Texas at Weber State Wichita State at San Francisco at UTAH(6-1) at Wichita St at St Louis Kansas State (N) New Mexi HILLCREST (hes Whittenberg with five seconds left Fresno State the victory and The second half was different inerease the Bulld activity of the 4 38 4) 0 Bw 7 either Mexico in Y Tigi. ge was the UTAH STATE (77 USU history rmanceat only other WAC of the Trojan Classic Sproul Jimmy Moore connected on 13 amhit 17 of 21 shots in the of 72W 6376. 69-HL #4 10% the WAC teamsshould The gar Score by quarters: re Ornette Utah State, 79-77 FRESNO, Calif. Denver play Classic in the Colorado, Ulab GRANGER G7) the Mexico round of the Tr favored in three of the games Murray Hillerest 0 Oremat Gi OW Kearns- deadlock was seu New Jacksonville tonight in the first teams are on tap for Saturday and WAC teams will be Provoat Brighton manage mmate Br behind with 18 Evansville Cal-Northridge Chapman at Idaho State Saturday's Games Four games including WAC Next Friday | cxapal si row WYOMING (4:1) night at American Fork 7.30 Thursday 's Results Orem 74. Brighton56 Parker leading oo at Weber State holding a 4-3 mark. vill host Southwest Texas, smith nite Shuriteft Hillcrest &2, Kearns 58 Murray 80, Granger 67 Provo — idle tonight also. Wyoming, presently State, Saturday's Games: Orem ys. Tooele at BYU 5:15 STANDINGS WoL COLORADO STATE (43) wow E $854. the Sun Bowl championship. The Miners will be favoredto extend he a Wyoming and ColoradoState are both favored in home games By DAVE OWEN Texas A&M at UTEP yeu Mexico vs Jacksonville (at losing record is favored to w two games Schedule Southwest Texas at Colorado Brigham Young Univer dual meet as they do any other time. They don't rest or try and save themselves for dual-meet success. So they generally go into dual meets more tired than their opponents. 1 2 46 82 1458 been compiled against pretty good oppasi on The Deus we th Wichita also will be unable to makethetrip to over Phoenix for next Saturday's Fiesta Bow! Fairbanks will be replaced by State f-7. 250-pound sophomore Dave Hubbard Hubbard was a part-time this season for the Cougars Do Angels Have Inside Track on Hunter? By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Editor NEW YORK (UPI) — Think of discovered since finding himself in line for maybe two Christmas. and generally you also think of such other closely Years agoas é related things as peaceon earth, good-will toward men and the warm, benign spirit of true friendship This, then, is what this Chnstmas yarn is all about- milliI bucks now that he’s a free agent again. the sar y he was 10 18-year-old high schoolgraduate Let's lake the Hunter Wil The two men areclose. as close as It 18 possible for a manager to among those cha k mis, on the other hand out as strong as one ofthose tissues ou use to clean your eve-glasses. The Iwo me say much. he can taste it. He’s also Then, of course, there is Why aware his next-door competitor Hunter's association with WilWalter O'Malley is riding hard hams when both were with the clubs interest ed in Catfish Hunter. wouldn't they be? The Angels d turn out to be ! er with Nolan Ryan Frank Tanana (for whom the an Cardinals offered Reg; ith relationship, but inwardly T have even up), Andy Hasslev aud a hello to ea other and cutwardly cordial 5 One of the top returning swimmersis Rick Rameson of Provo, winner of two WAC events last year and three as a freshman Rameson began swimming in California, which is where Burton is spending much of the semester break recruiting. He will concentrate on the Sacramento and San Jose areas which has produced so many of the country’s top swimmers We naturally look for the best Utah swimmers but there aren't that many, Burton points out. “Some boys here don’t start swimming until they get in high school. In © Jifornia boysstart a old and there are a lot more people involve in swim programs. “One problem aroundthe country has been that AAU programs for kids just haven't been that good. Gradually we are getting more good coaches and more people involved but westill need a lot more youth participating in swim programs.” Ithode Islandat record somemorethis wee swimmerstrain as hard the day before a Fourteen swimmers are gone from last year, eight of whom gained points at the WAC meet. One of those, Stan Curnow, won two WAC titles at one meter and three at three meters (former BYU divers Curnow and Keith Russell are currently in Houston training for the 1976 Olympics). records to 41-10 and f the only team in the WAC 4 To accomplish his geal, Burton has his An average day of swim practice includes 12,000 yards by each swimmer. That's 480 laps of the BYU pool. ‘It’s a lot of work,” Burton says. ‘but the other goed swim teams are doing the same thing so we have to keep pace. And wefeel it's better in the long run to train through a dual meet rather than for a dual meet Before you scoffat his ideas. consider what Burton accomplished last year, his first as (U's swim coach, After a ho-hum yearof dual competition the Cougars won the WAC mopetit title, their first ever in swimming, and they weren't expected io even come close And Burton's experience would seem to indicate he know a little bit about preparing for the big meets. The 27-yeai-uiu Coacin Was captain of the UCLA swim team for two years and went on to win a total of five gold medals in the Olympics at Mexico City (where he was team captain) and at Munich. Last Night's Results UTEP 72 Miami, Ohio 66 are good for improving School, will join Law on the starting guard line for BYL tonight. Nielsen has started a number of games at both team that handled BYU here in Provo by 11 points Conference increased their pre VERYL LAW, a sophomore from Prove High School, will be in a starting role again toni when RYU hasts Rhode Ishand. Law wonhis first starting assignment last Saturday Tauis. 84-78 Wichita State is « to believe each wishes the other would fall straight into the cellar Bysome strangecoincidence that’s where Dick Williams woundup this year after taking reportedly sound again Bill Singer. Imaginethat same staff effort to corral can put him lo work on that big ‘Dodger Spread of his and if it comes right downto a battle of bank rolls, well, Gent A 0: holding the saddle bag in the bunkhouse Second, the Angels also have \'s That association was a good one. and a baliplayer doesn’t forget a little thing like that. Now, what would youcall it, poelic justice or what, if Hunter decides to go with the Angels and winds up pitching for Charlie Finley's old “friend,” Dick ip) with Catfish Hunter addedtoit be with one of his players. Jim Williams? you imagine The Angels havethree things Harry Dalton, an unusual Charlie Finley's feelings if that It deals with such oldfriends as Hunter was among those going for them in their bid for baseball executive in that not oens? Jim “Catfish” Hunter and Dick Oakland A’s zenuinely sorry to Williams. Charlie Finley and see Dick Williams leaveafter the over the managership of the Hunter anlyis he capable, but hehas the Meanwhile, back at the ranch First they have Gene Autry kind of pleasant, outgoing in Hertford, N.C., where Catfish Dick Williams. and dozens upon club won the second ofits three California Angels in whoownsthe ball club. dozens of new friends Jim Straight world championships a midsummer. personality which causes people Hunter tiv s wilh hisa Lae the Gene Autry wants to win so instinctivelyto like him Catfish” Hunter suddenly has year ago Now it developsthe Angels are true frie |