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Show tg aeiey: Ady ph, AA ts ee : There Are No Patsies <= Wednesday, December 15,1971 av ro f(CESSORIES In College Basketball By MURRAY OLDERMAN SAN FRANCISCO (NEA) — College basketball is the last unbridled frontier of venturesome opportunity in America. Get yourself a big man and you're in business, which accounts for the Algeresque rise in good fortune of such celebrated basketball powers as San Angelo Texas State, South Alabama, Long BeachState and even little Quinniniac, Guy Lewis fears Southwest Louisiana — just as in a bygone era Stagg feared Purdue. Lewis is the coach of the vaunted Cougars of conveniently, Lewis has some 6-9 and 6-10 specimens to choose from among the student body, who come from such diverse places as Diboll, Texas, and Schenectady, NY. Guy himself is frem Arp, Tex., and his wife Dena is rom neighboring Troup (and it’s still a contentivus thing in the Lewis household that Arp beats Troup in high school football every year). Anyhow, to get back to the thesis of wildcatting basketball, an idea of what can be wrought instantly was provided almost two decades agoat a nondescript little Ohio school named Rio (RYE-oh) Grande College, where a zealot named Newt Oliver produced an accurateshotting center, one the other morning over Bloody Marys.“So Iremember welined Bevo Francis, surrounded him with some good little ol’ boys who could hustle a basketball, and created an immediate sensation VING! RISTM ASGI GREAT FOR &CH ISTMAS! CHR ‘TIL O 'TIL DAY FRI up Jacksonville University, Houston University, which when he went there as a 6-3 center backin 1947 consisted of two buildings. Now you could get both of them in Hofheinz Pavilion, a modern campus temple consecrated to basketball for theedification of the 26,000 students now enrolled. Guy Lewis Everybody is a ihreat by having Bevo score 100 points a night. This was achieved against Bible schools and the like, however. The minute Rio Grande came up against a bona fide good college team, Bevo was blankeu and scheme was Since the National Collegiate Athletic Association is a notably staid, austere organization, coaches like Guy Lewis have worked within the frameworkof tradition and respectability to round up tall freshman basketball players—ie., Elvin (Big E) Hayes of recent vintage—and carefully plan a schedule which would show them off to best advantage. This doesn’t always work oui according to plot. “We have to schedule three years in advance,” noted Guy which didn’t look like very much in those days,But by the time we got around to them they had already reached into the junior colleges and brought out people like Artis Gilmore. “One year we played South Alabama because a kid I know was coaching there. And he'd brought down a bunch of boys from Indiana and Illinois, They came dow: the court the first time, shot from 30 feet—poof, right in the basket. Made their first 11 shots. Best shooting team I ever saw. We beat 'em finally, butit was tough. “Look at New Mexico State. They got this seven-foot Tree Grant and Jack Williamson, the most sought after high school guard in the country two years ago. They open against San Angelo Texas State. At home. And they lose.” Lewzis noted there are no patsys any more in college etball. basketball. “You'll find,” he said, “at least 100 very good college teams. Southwest Louisiana is probably the toughest of our first four games, maybe the best we'll see all year.” This was said the morning after Houston, picked among the nation’s top 10 in preseason polls, had been upset by untouted California in its second game.Wehad last seen Guy and Dena Lewis somewherein the Negev Desert of Israel, of all places, when he was doing some extra-curricular coaching the summer of '69. Any day now we're sure a seven-foot Bedouin will show up in Houston to warm the hearts of the Cougar Cager Booster Club. OPEN- MONDAY UPISports Writer NEW YORK (UPI) —Bobby Hayes wastalking about one of the offers he had before signing with the Dallas Cowboys, “Thad one from the California Angels,”he said, Roger Staubach threw him a fishy look. “I mean it,” Hayes insisted. “T was a centerfielder.” “Thatoffer,” Staubach needled, “how much wasit, a hundred dollars?” Hayes laughed. Preferred Football “T never even considered it,” he said. “All I wanted to do was play football.” That’s exactly what Bobby Hayes is doing now —Roger Staubach isn’t doing half badly himself —and there you have two of the reasons the Cowboys have won their last six in a row,nailed down a playoff spot and look better than anyone else around insofar as a super bowlberth is concerned. They looked so good demolishing the New York Giants, 42-14, Sunday, in fact, that a good portion of those in the crowd of 62,815 began heading for the exits shortly after the end of the third quarter. Most of those who departed early were Giants’ partisans, of course. Staubach’s Good Day They had seen plenty. More than enough. They had seen Staubach hit Hayes with a nifty 46-yard scoring pass the second time the Cowboys got their hands on and then in the second period, they had seen the Texas invaders pump Evansville Invades WeberState Tonight Weber State, the defending Big Sky Conference champion, and University of Evansville, the defending NCAA College Divis.cn champion,squareoff in a basketball contest tonight at 8:05 p.m, (MST) in Wildcat Grym. The Wildcats and Purple Aces have met only once before and that was last December in the championship game of the Evansville Invitational Tournament. Weber defeated Evansville 70-65 to claim the tournamenttitle. Weber's Willie Sojourner and Evansville's Don Buse were named co-Most Valuable Player in the classic, Willie is gone, but Buse is back, and the 6-4 guard, a college division All-American, scored 24 points and grabbed 8 rebounds against Weber last year. Buse averaged 18.2 points per game and shot 53 percent from the guard line last year. Other honorsgivento the very rugged Buse were Most Valuable Player in the Indiana Collegiate Conference, the NCAA Great Lakes Regional, and in the NCAA College Divisionfinals. Evansville’s two other aces are a 63 forward Rick Coffey and 6-9, 266 pound center Steve Welmer, Welmer is counted on to give the Purple Aces another shot at the national crown. Weber State’s Bob Davis, a 6-7 senior forward who is gunning for All-America recognition, scored 11 points and grabbed 11 Tebounas against Evansville last year. Coach Gene Visscher will look for Davis to improve that performance and hopefully maintain his present 22.0 points per game average. Davis leads Weber in scoring and also in rebounding with 10.3 per game. The Wildcats will be without the services of6-5 senior forward Jonnie Knoble for the Evansville contest. Knoble, who hit 16 points and hauled in 10 rebounds against the Aces last year,is still b out of action with a cast on his right leg. It is hoped that he might be ready for the Oregon trip next weekend, but his condition will be questionable. The other two returning starters from last year’s team are 6-7 senior Richard Cooper and 5-11 guard Brady Small. Cooper, wo jumps center and then rotates in the pivot with Weber's otherfrontline players, is averaging 10 points per game and 10 rebounds per outing. Small’s scoring has fallen off from last year’s 11.3 mark, and the playmaker guard is scoring only 8.7 per game. Knoble’s vacated forward position has been filled by 65 junior college transfer Wes Van Champion why TRACTION WIDE © BIG HUSKY Z-BAR TRAC TION TREAD-widest of the 70-series wide radial treads! Dyke and 64 redshirt Rick Camac. Camac came off the bench against West Texas State and Midwestern University and sparked the Wildcats to its two victories. Camac tallied 20 points and 10 rebounds in those two contests while playing only about half the time. Camac or Van Dyke will get the starting nod agains. Evansy:ile, Another bench player who performed well in the two early games is 6-8 senior center Herman Pluim. Pluim scored a coupleof key buckets in the West Texas and Midwestern games, and his height might be needed to counter Welmer’s size in the Evansville post. The other starter is exoected to be 64 junior college wansfer Riley Wimberly. Wimberly, who shoots well, handles theball, and is super-quick, has been improving in each game and could be one of Weber’s leading players before long. He is scoring 11.7 points per game to trail Davis in scoring department. 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Avery special price! FG. Ferre Nocold wet hands ! Don’t Get Caught With Your Windshield Covered BRUSHITAWAY .. Includes ? speakers MUFFLER SHOP over to Bobby Hayes before than when he was breaki world records for Florida A&M. “A sprinter doesn’t reach his BELT—Holds ENGINE HEATER ANTIFREEZE best for stability, traction, strength and mileage! Fire Destroyed Books Sunday's game. On the flyleaf Bob Paul had written: “Best regards to a guy who ran 9.1 for the first time and then went on to bigger things in athletics.” Bobby Hayes is 28 and says VISIONAID WINDSHIELD © RADIAL CONSTRUCTION — weeks ago. “This is fantastic,” he said leafing through the pages. “You got one like it in 1964, didn’t you?” Blair asked him. “Never,” Hayes said. Blair said he'd take care of that oversight. He got in touch with Bob Paul, information director for the U.S. Olympic Committee here, and Paul had some sad news. A fire in committee headquarters three years ago had destroyed all those 1964 books and Paul said he knew of only one that was available. It was his own personal copy, one he wouldn’t part with for money. “1 wouldn't do this for anybody,” Paul said, handing Blair the book the other day. “For the ‘World's Fastest Human,’ I'll do it though.” Hayes at Top Form Sam Blair turned the book 66 AC leaving the clubhouse. Bobby Hayes had been with Sam Blair, sports editor and columnist for the Dallas Morning News, autographing Blair's fine book —Dallas Cowboys: pro or con —and following the session Blair invited Hayes to his home. Hayes, winner of two Gold Medals in the 1964 Olympics at Tokyo, was particularly intrigued by one of the books in Blair's library —the 1968 Olympic edition. Bs Autolite up their margin to 28-0 after Staubach and Hayes made connection on an 85-yarder. Roger Staubach didn’t have a bad dayat all with 10 out of 14 for 232 yards and three touchdowns. 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