Show w V :" " — nr i HD un tfjtfalhi Cowboys Test New Mexico imps Aggies As Newflimt JHtomnips Bv Kurt McGregor II J Staff Writer 107-8- was the bright spot While the Utes bottled up most of the Aggie netted inan-lo-ina- 21 Roberts from Marv Credit must be given to Gardner for containing Roberts GardPlaying him ner a Clearfield sophomore kept the Brooklyn soph from getting the ball and Roberts got off only IS tries collecting only 19 points Coach Jack Gardner used the same defense that was so suc one-on-o- 24-1- (5-7- 4-- 2 7-- 8 6 2-- 36-2- 5 that the tide 7-- 0 had changed But the Aggie momentum stalled when Newlin connected for five straight points and was joined by Hawkins and Gardner as the Utes rebuilt their margin points to coine away as State's high point man the first time in 13 games anyone has taken the to away n 6-- 7 peared Jeppesen For the Aggies Paul Jeppesen honors LARAMIE — Disappointed pared to the 497 percentage of yes Discouraged definitely not! the foe (17 of 195) That's the attitude of coach New Mexico which clipped Bill Strannigan and his the Pokes twice last season (BIWyoming Cowboys as they face OS at Albuquerque and 7582 defending champion New here) to cut Wyoming's lead in Mexico tonight in the opening the series to 2 will create "a round of the Western Athletic lot of defensive problems" Conference campaign Strannigan feels “Center Ron "I definitely feel we did not Sanford (6-- and freward Willie play as well as we are capable" Long ) are going to put Strannigan commented about tremendous pressure on our his team's sixth place showing in defense and well probably go Tournament the with Gary Von Krosigk (58) at "We were much sharper in the forward to help out Bebout then early December action but at can be ready in reserve on the Oklahoma City we just couldn't front line Steve Popovich (58) seem to regain that precision who wu a regular early still and consequently lost our first hasn’t fully recovered from the games of the year We stayed flu but we hope he can come in with our three opponents (LSU and give us extra board Tulane and Texas A&M) on the boards but our shooting fell off strength” The Lobos come into the considerably That probably was sporting a 108 recoud game and the diffenence" best defense a 881 league's The Pokes built a record in mean The Pokes are 58 and top warring mainly on the other side of the conference excellent accuracy from the column offense with a hot 919 field: 223 field goals in 447 ataverage tempts for a 499 percentage At the tournament the Cowboys hit at a 465 clip (101 of 217 com 54-4- 4 SALT LAKE CITY-M- ike Newlin and Ken Gardner combined for 60 points Thursday 9 night to lead Utah to a victory over arch rival Utah State Newlin whose 32 points last week led Utah to an upset win over Southern California hit for 39 points collecting on 13 of 17 attempts for a fantastic 77 per cent from the field From the foul line Newlin dropped through 13 for IS and matched Garner for rebounds with 10 apiece Walt Hawkins chipped in with six of nine from the field for 67 per cent and Jim Mahler bagged seven of 10 for 70 per cent and helped the Utes shoot a red-h548 for the evening In an outside shooting display that surprised even the Utes Newlin and Gardner seemed to hit almost anything they threw up And just to keep the Staten honest Mahler was picking up the inside shot to garner 16 points in the first hajf offense Jeppesen cessful for him against Southern IS but Utah got 10 more total California alternating between RB's a and a zone Khurfle defense and Coach LaDcll Andersen will pressing periodically usually after a probably be shuffling his lineup successful free throw attempt for Saturday's game with BYU Jeppesen who played prep as none of his Thursday comball at Sky View and hit seven binations were particularly for eight of his last field at- strong the Colorado The victory left Utah with a tempts during Sale contest connected on nine record and dropped the Utags to of lis first 10 attempts during the 58 wag lhe hird vkt()ry jn a Utah encounter and was row for Utah over Utah State shooting a red hot 16 for 19 and if luslorv serves as an omen It was Jeppesen from the wM1d mean the Utes will outside who kept the in hp wries In recent smp the contest early in the game as years the team to win the first he collected 10 of the team s 13 game has won the second points Behind his efforts the seven of ten seasons Utags lee early in the game and again at 3 before Newlin Utah (107) G F and Mahler warmed the nets at Gardner 7 one time collecting 12 straight Hawkins 6 points and breaking the game Mahler 2 7 open to a 2 margin Newlin 13 39 A brief flury of balanced scaring by Ed Epps Jeppesen Roberts and John Ericksen in the closing minutes of the first half and the opening of the second half pulled the Staters within three points and it ap- UTEP it From there the Utes padded their lead and to the pleasure of the 5719 fans with 2:44 left Newlin hooked in the 100th point drew a foul on Castleton and made it 101 with a three-poiplay For the game Utah State took seven more shots from the field but netted five less in shooting a warm 438 per cent Roberta led the evening's rebounding with Ken Gai dorr (35) drew the assignment of stopping Marv Roberts in contest Caught here applying (he pressure to Roberts Gardner held the State ace to Just 15 shots and It points “Gardner was good lie just gave me the big I)" Roberts said after the game "He was lough on defense He was lough" Halftime score: Utah 51 Passing Catching Are Keys USU 42 Total fouls: USU 26 Utah Fouled out: Epps Mahler A— 5719 21 Continues MOBILE ANGELES (UPD-T- he cast of leading characters in today's second round of the $100000 Los Angeles open has Charsomething old lie Sifford and something new Grier Jones of Wichita Kans Sifford first Negro to win a major golf tournament came in d with a 63 might under par Thursday for a three stroke lead after 18 holes of the tournament which ends Sunday LOS Jones the three-under-p- 69i Arnold Palmer who has won this torunament three times could do no better than a 72 Super Bowl Set WLam§h StwfS Stiver FORT LAUDERDALE Fla he rough stuff is over The Baltimore Colts and the New York Jets will use the final 48 hours before Sunday's Super Bowl game in Miami to brush up on strategy and sharpen their mental edge On the matter of game psychology New York coach Weeb Ewbank has a couple of complaints One is that he has to keep the reins tight on his Tigers so they won't be ready too soon The other is that nobody seems to take the Jets (UPD-T- iu ll&A &CVhlftl£ seriously as a threat to knoex Baltimore Football overconfident National off the Still impressions get around League Kings for the first time in three Super Bowls with a large amount of help Colts coach Don Shula whose from the oddsmakers team is the “If you listen to people talk it favorite says his preparations would be foolish for us to dress are drifting along cooly: “We're But we're going to" Ewbank not chafing at the bit-- yet We fusses don't want that until Sunday' Baltimore licked Cleveland 34-in the NFL title game And the Colts one and all Ewbank said "No AFL team speak nothing but praise and was licked that badly in the respect for Joe Namath and the Jets It would be unsporting of Super Bowl Yet thry don't course to knock them but it downgrade the Browns like they would also be foolish for do the AFL" NFL Victories The first two world championand ship games ended in 4 Green Bay victories over Kansas City and then Oakland Until the AFL champion makes a better showing few will be convinced the league has pulled cautioned dealings three-touchdo- 0 Dime Store Heirs May Buy Seals BUFFALO (UPI)-Di- me NY store heirs Seymour and Northrop Knox today pushed toward the conslusion of a deal to bring the Oakland Seals franchise in the National Hockey League to Buffalo at the start of the 1969-7season The Knox brothers heirs to the F W Wool worth Co dime store fortune announced at a news conference Thursday evening they had “entered into a 0 contract" to purchase the Oakland entry from Berend Van Gerbig Poor attendance has left the Oakland franchise in financial trouble since the California city entered the NHL The league reportedly has made loans of up to $3 million to Oakland to keep the team in business twice But Seymour Knox burned by “premature" anof his sports nouncements W & will hinge on the throwing of the North versus the receiving of the South That's the way the opposing coaches— Allie Sherman of the New York Giants and Charlie Winner of the St Louis Cardinals— see it for this first y action by 56 of the nation's top college seniors “Neither coaching staff plans it that way" said South coach Winner “But these contests usually wind up as passing games "If that's the way it goes Saturday there's no doubt who our key men are" Winner continued “We've got the two top college receivers in the country in Ron Seilers (Florida State) and Jerry Levias (Southern Methodist) “Sellers set all sorts of records and you know that Levias when you get the ball to him he really knows what to do All-St- Mobile Via: South's player Jerry Levias (SMl'i reaches for ball on a pass play while teammate Donnie Sutton (Ala) defends during a workout in preparation for he Senior Bowl when star upcoming players from the north and south battle each other (I'PI telephoto) lit Almost Is Lucky Ao I1 rUIISILSVMLI Press International almcjt 'urned out lucky for Memphis State in a Missouri Valley Conference basketball game Thursday By United No 13 night The Tigers reeled off 13 straight points while holding St Louis University scoreless early in the second hull to take a lead And they had a l lead with just 16 seconds emuimng in the game Hut St Louis' Jim Bryan hit a field goal to tie the game The the Billikens' Fritz Ziegier made four tree throws in the 51-j- final minute of an overtime period to give St Louis a victor) In other inijor college games Thursday night Notre Dame defeated Butler Vanderbilt edge: u 94 yz Drake nipped Ui'iiu Mate Solti North livix Stale liested Bradley im'i'ij William and Mary outgunned The Citadel ami l’:i: heat Utah State 63-6- 76-7- 3 71-3- 35-1- 33-1- Sa- play-for-pa- 1968 NCAA cham- pion who turned pro just last fall shot a 66 a mark matched by Dave Hill the veteran from Evergreen Colo in the Thirty-tw- o golfers starting field of 144 were under on the Ranchc par Park municipal course Three of them landed at 67— Jimmy Walker old Los a Angeles “rookie" who has won only $225 as a pro Terry Dill Austin Tex a regular but not big winner on the PGA tour and Bob Murphy pro rookie of the year in 1967 who amassed earnings of $105000 in 1968 Australia's Bruce Crompton shot a 68 and -defending champion Billy Casper and eight other pros carded Ala (UPI)- -If turday's Senior Bowl football game turns into a passing duel as expected the outcome likely first-roun- Nut re plIVClj carl) iiuie :i the IriM then V Butler and t'tOli M'i'Ullil ii'i 'Jill i Vk lil'l i lillt I'lilltsl ii’Aiy Unlit :)ui Kkti ! himi seating capacity Local hockey sources said Knox already had lined up the nine NHL votes needed for approval Knox vainly sought an NHL expansion franchise in 1965— when Oakland was accepted— and was a part of the aborted effort to bring major league baseball to Buffalo last may when the National League chore San Diego and Montreal Knox declined Thursday to disclose the purchase price of the Seals but said a “substantial is amount involved— considerably in excess of an NHL expansion franchise in 1965" with it" North coach Sherman obviously feels that quarterback Bobby Douglass of Kansas is the key to whether the North can make it four out of five in North-Sout- h games this winter kid h lhe "TO All-St- ar The two FT COLLINS newest members of the Western Athletic Conference — Texas-E- l Paso and Colorado possibly knock off in the West Santa Clara (12-0- ) Coast Athletic Conference of UCLA (94)i the nation's No 1 power in the Pacific Eight Conference State University — get together for a bounce-bounc- e of game Saturday and the nets may be in shreds before the afternoon is over Both the Rams and the Miners are hitting the buckets for high with UTEP's percentages sharpshooter cramming in 507 per cent of their shots over the 13 game haul played thus far The Rams on the other hand are shooting 44 percent form the field crating into the 1:30 pm televised game Saturday afternoon CSU’s shooting per- centage took a drastic cut following the 3 loss to Utah State in Logan last Saturday however The Rams came m hotter than a pistol in the first half hitting 59 per cent ofr a 3 halftime lead but then the 83-7- 39-3- GREELEY Colo (UPI) -Ken Hall of Westminster College is leading both divisions of the new Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference in acoring the commissioner’s office announced Thursday Hall has a 327 scoring aver age to lead both the Mountain Division of which Westminster is a member and the Plains Division The Parsons' standout forward has scored 262 points in eight games Other top scorers in the Mountain Division include Ed Kemp of Adams State College 254 Don Fortney of Regis 248 Jay Godley of Colorado Mines 215 and Joe Winrow of Westminster 228 Hall also leads the division in free throw accuracy He has connected on 78 of 85 attempts for 894 per cent Kemp is tops in rebounding with a 142 average and leads in field goal percentage with a mark of 62 per cent On a team level the Parsons have averaged 1006 points per game— the best in both divisions —and College of Southern Utah is the best defensively in the Mountain Division limiting op roof fell in The Rams were able to account for only 23 percent in the ponents to an average of 82 second stanza and that ac- points per game Hie Thunder-birdcounted tor their second loss of also are second in rethe season against eight wins bounding behind Regis “We tried everything but the drop kick" CSU head coach Jim s Southern Idaho Downs Dixie Williams moaned “I don't believe we could have bought a basket on the black market ST GEORGE Utah (UPI) -“I can assure you that we can't be this cold against UTEP The College of Southern Idaho on Saturday This is probably plowed under the Dixie College one of the finest shooting teams Rebels Thursday night in a Don Haskins Las had since the lackluster basketball game 3 Miners won the National The game which left Dixie Championship in 1966” Jim 2 connemted in Intermountain College “They can start a club with Athletic Conference competition good height and what they do belonged to CSI from the belack in inches can be made up in ginning their leaping ability They have By halftime the Twin Falls lost only to Tulsa New Mexico team lead wu 3585 and New Mexico State and they High point men for CSI were are good ball dubs" Ron Adams with 23 Tom Bush UTEP later got revenge for with 14 and Jack Brown 18 the New Mexico loss by downing For Dixie high point man the Lobos at El Paso The was Harry Gentry with 14 Miners now stand 148 on the Roger Gornichec 11 and John 86-5- 0-- lefthanded passer I've seen" Sherman said “He has a little trouble keeping his timing with new receivers but he's going to The tunsies are over for West make someone a good pro Coast basketball teams who get season down to the serious business quarterback” tonight of league clashes And after the smoke clears this weekend fans will have a fair idea of what club may For Cagers 71-6- 7 Christian 1 r i meet a great Canadian kfinvuiMJii The Bruins from Los Angeles could run ino a toughie at Oregon which won the Far West Classic last month It is also the Pacific Eight opener for Oregon (68) and ) Sou' hern California meanwhile ) State Oregon open their conference season at Corvallis Ore L'SC and UCLA swap Oregon opponents Saturday night (7-5- (4-4- Washington State and Washington both one game over the a"11 n mark have played basketball at times this lop-nnic- But they will have to be ai 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Foley the Tigers tackle the University of San Francisco tonight and Santa Clara ' t ' 9 third-ranke- d Stanford spurred by a recent triumph over Brigham Young luces Washington and California entertains WSl' tonight before the teams exchange opponents the following night of Pacific The University Tigers sporting a fine 7 3 mark open UCAD play with a pair of tough ics 011 the road Powered !i a sturdy front line of Tom Jones Bill Strieker and Pat to "several conditions" including approval by the NHL board of governors and the expansion of the memorial auditorium Faces Colo -St y'i Tfau-tda- LA Open Both coaches went to their benches during the first half and it found John Hunter guarding Tin Tolleslrup Suffering from a back injury Tolies trap has seen only limited action la the last four games tor Utah Stale Ken Hall Top Scorer r 1SS0CMUD IMWUS MC lOTTHI) III TNI US IT t000IM!N I MWTS W0M TT (KNTTNOOI |