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Show FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1965 LYtlll CHRISTENSEN THE DIXIE SUN - Athlete of Year Lynn Christensen, alias the old man, alias A1 Biggety, alias the hornet, was selected by the Honors and Awards Committee as the outstanding athlete of the year. Lynn is from Providence (South Cache) Utah. He attended the new defunct South Cache High School where he starred in football, basketball, baseball and track. Lynn has served two years in the National Guard, where sergeants were understandably hesitant in giving him orders. Most of them would rather have taken orders from Lynn such is his commanding personality. seven times at Lynn lettered Dixie, and participated in every organized sport that the school had to offer. the Las Vegas Bowl game last Thanksgiving, Lynn was voted the outstanding back of the game. For those unfamiliar with Lynns prowess, watching him has made believers of many especially Sark Arslanian who didnt rest until he had the old man under his wing at Weber State, where Lynn immediately took over one of the starting halfback slots. One of Lynns greatest assets is his unselfishness, and Lynn is probably a better blocking back than a running back which is helping speedster Henry Owens of Weber to sleep better at nights. The student body should be proud to have an athlete who is in every sense a gentleman to represent us both on and off the playAt Rebels Nab 7 Firsts p 54. 1 3 13-- ROUHDBALL FUTURE By LES MATHSON According to Coach Allred, next years basketball team will be a contender all the way, and with just a break or two, the skys the limit. There are some fine experienced ball players coming back from this years team which comrecord. The Rebels piled a 19-- 6 will lose such fine players as honKen orable mention Belka to Utah State, and the other Bob Cuff will be carrying his talent northward to CSU. The two hatchetmen, Lynn Christensen and Tom Crittendon will be playing basketball on the football field for Weber State, where their roughness will look more at home, he Ivory twins will separate, with Mike continuing on to dental school and brother Dave will be back to come sight on the guard line, and teamed with Monte VreNon, could give the Rebels the finest pair of guards in the entire JC ranks next year. Coach Allred spent the last week end proselyting (the closest hell ever come to missionary work) and has some good prospect from both Utah and some of the adjoining states. Of course the bulk of his recruiting will be done this summer, and if he can just come up with a good big man to partially fill the shoes of Ken Belka, he will have to work overtime to find something to cuss about next year. The schedule for next year has the Rebels tentatively playing 28 ballgames, with trips into Arizona, Colorado and California. help the Rebels with his clutch substitution play. Ralph Stansfield will probably spend his junior and senior year on an LDS mission, and Lynn Perks will probably go to USU. The Dixie men are also scheduled to play the freshmen of all of the four year schools in the state, and the future looks brighter than ever. in -- Yhere Viil They Go By LAWRENCE HUNSACKER was a The school year 1964-6year of success and achievement for Dixie College athletic teams. The Rebels football squad, possibly the best in Dixies history, finished in the elite rating of national J.C. for the. second straight year. It was also Dixies second conference consecutive championship. The basketball team missed the conference title by an Tracksters were second only to Boise J. C. Wrestling was introduced into the schools athletic program for the first time, and Dixie teams also participated in ing field. baseball and tennis. Where are some of the graduatICAC ing athletes going that made these achievements possible? Most of them are headed to We ber State with former Dixie coach, Arslanian. Lynn Christiansen, Vic Vincent, Paul Pace, Lee Bunnell, Tex Stafford, Joe Blockovich and Cordell Ferry have already enrolled at Weber. Ends Ron McCall and Lawrence Hunsacker along with By MONTE VRE NON tackle Vern Bailey will join Coach The Dixie College cindermen fin- Arslanian fall quarter. Tackles ished the season by placing second Glenn Gardner and Rich Huggins in the annual conference meet. The are the only football players that Rebels were runners-uto Boise did not travel to Weber. Glenn enrolled at BYU while Rich returned Junior College. Boise received 854 However points to Dixies the Rebels collected more first place medals than any other team. Coach Slades athletes also set two new conference records. The first record came in the mile relay. Ken Kindall, Leroy Wright, Ed Blainey and the old man Phil Morrison set the new record at 3:28.2. The old record was 3:30. The other record was set by Monte VreNon in the pole vault. VreNon jumped to completely obliterate the old mark of Those athletes who brought home first place medals were: Mark Hansen in the high hurdles, Wright in the 100, Phil Morrison in the 440, John Barrus in the mile, George Glines in the discus, the mile relay team and VreNon in the pole vault. Trad Finals PAGE 4 5 top-te- n eye-las- h. If I know Coach Allred, nex. A strong forward line of center years team will be better thu i Nolan Archibald and forward Kent ever, because in Coach Allred, we Davis (both regulars this year) and have one of the finest coaches in possibly Bruce Jones will be very the junior college ranks. lean, very fast, and extremely tough on the boards, and without a doubt as fine a shooting front line as can be found anywhere. Coach Allred reports that Dean Perkins, who will be released from an LDS mission Dec. 1, will be back. Perkins was an all conferBy KEROS BROWN ence guard on the championship It has been the policy of the team of and will be a wel sports page this year to give credit where credit is due, and in keeping to his former school the University with this policy, may we just opine of New Mexico. briefly on the merits of Coach Doug Allred. Most coaches are onBasketball Ken Belka as successful as the boys they and Bob Cuff are headed north too. ly can recruit, and when a coach has But Ken will carry the colors of the to take raw material Utah State and Bob will be repre- and ability mold it into a championship senting CSU next year. Wrestler team this shows the mark of a Dick Ostergaard who represented true coach. May we just illustrate Dixie in the nattional werstling out that Monte Vre by pointing meet, is now wrestling with a new Non didnt know what defense was problems. He cant decide between until Allred got hold of him, and Utah State and an LDS mission. he is now the most sticky fingered Ken Caputo, Dixies outstanding defender you ever saw. Arch had shortstop, will sell his baseball tal- never played offense or defense. ent to either the University of Utah Kent Davis average more points or Utah State. And running Johnny in college than he did in high Barrus will run to Utah State fall school. 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