Show 12 — TIm Herald Journal Lope Utah Sunday Ntv 15 1171 IV ear Standard Of Ideal Player ‘Mever A JBaail (Game’ Fr®m MerMm ©flsem not lack for recognition The ability of a player to rise to grater heights than his fellows is indefinable Many players with superior physical assets puzzle coaches and observers that they do not reach the potential they seem to promise When one like Olsen coma along to fulfill the ideal concha charge it off with a phrase that the man “plays with emotion" What then ia the emotion which lifts Olsen? “I think the closest word to what coaches mean by ‘emotion’ ” Olsen says “is ‘intensity’ “I think if a man is playing emotionally his intensity is grater Thus his level of ability Rami head coach George Allen perhaps said it best: "We have never had a bad game from Merlin Olsen Yon always get a good game from Oly and more often than not you get a great game" In Allen’s press conference vernacular “great" supersedes “good” and “fine” by quite a margin When the Ram coach speaks of Olsen the listener sensei that Allen is discussing someone near his standard for the ideal football player Allen would get little if any disagreement on Olsen from selectors of altstar teams Merlin has been a unanimous Football League choice each year since 1968 He was a first-teaselection for the combined AFL-NF- L chosen squads by NEA last season He has played on the West’s Pro Bowl team following each of his eight previous years with the Rams In college at Utah State he was an is doing little mechanical he does them normally His reactions are betterthey are automatic “In a game if you are having a good day you become conscious of it and I think this can help you to play better” Yes but how then do you reach this plateau of intensity? "You start getting ready mentally on a heigfitenedhe things better than m Olsen preparing this week to play S' lay against the New York Jets in the Coliseum does All Uphill9 For Lions As They Battle Vikings 6 By JOE CARNICEUJ MERLIN OLSEN achieves aearperfect performance game after through preparing mentally and playing with great emotiou aad Intensity It takes all week pmi UPI Sports Writer The Detroit Lions feel that there’s still a little life left for them in the National Football Conference Central Division The Minnesota Vikings will try to squeeze that out Sunday fltah Skiers Continue To liain National Acclaim SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -Utah ski enthusiasts who know the Wasatch Mountains have "The Greatest Snow on Earth” are familiar with the names of Marv Melville An Gaddis and Margo Walters These Utah skiers exhibited their great downhill and slalom abilities the best slopes in the world quoding the story of Utfch skiing to other alpine purists But their specialities are alpine suing What about jumpithe sor ng- and a cross-country- did aide of skiing? How Utqhi)s know the last skier representing Utah to win a nation- al untie title? II tfas Engen eight times AH natlopil jumping champion from 1931 to 1940 and jumping combined Cham-pia- h m 1939 and 19(1 and four-wa- y champion in 19(8 and 1941 Epgen broke the American or wotij'i record in jumping competition and the Norwegian was named skier of the century in 1950 The happy Norwegian left his nstyvp Mjodalen in 1930 to come : to (he United States cross-count- ry af ::: Helped Utah breed of Norwegian skiers has cone to Utah to study and! to ski Sane of these young student-athletha ve represented tjw University of Utah help--ing-th- e Salt Lake City school capture 13 Individual collegiate dudnptonships in the last 10 A hew : es years The first of these scholar-skier- s to come to Utah was Prydz in 1963 The ' Oslo Davis Cupper came to play tennis but jumping was -- his -- Frith-IDasa- e” No 1 sport Basse raptured the North Anferican Jumping crown in 196$ and followed that with the NCAA jumping title in 64 and 66 and the nordic combined gold medal in 66 Basse returned to Oslo with bis engineering degree to work for a local firm but when the Scandinavian winter covers Norway with snow he ia out on the jumping hill as one of the regular members of the NoNational Jumping rwegian Team Two fellow members of Ready Sports Chib followed Basse to Utah to give the Redskins the best collegiate jumping team the NCAA has ever seen In In 1964 Bjorn Loken enrolled at Utah followed by Mats Jensen in 1965 Bjorn from Asker followed Basse into the college of Engineering and on the jumping hill caphiring the NCAA jumping crown in 1965 He returned to Norway after the 67 season to enter the engineering field and now competes as one of the top 30 jumpers in his home qcountry Entered Everything Mats who does everything in a big way hasn’t gone home yet though he says he will In school Mats entered two programs — languages rad business In skiing he entered everything and since coming to Utah in 1968 he has been Utah’s top jumper The other veteran on the team ia Bjorn Malkomsen from second Rjukan The year man paced the Utes in the alpine events Bjorn was the 1970 top finisher in the slalom and the alpine combined Two newcomers this year are Lief Nord whose brother Tom was NCAA jumping champ in the 50’s and now coadws at Northern Arizona College and Knut Eie from Oslo Leif can The but the Oyslebo jump native specializes in cross-count- Mats hopes Knut will be as good as his father Nils The Oslo doctor was one of the best y skiers in the world in the 30’s and competed on national Norwegian many cross-countr- teams The Redskbi team has five Salt Lake area skiers on the tram and three other athletes from the United States Senior student CTOig Day is the team’s top downhUler and he is joined by sophomores Jon Engen (Alfa youngest son) and Tom Richards and freshmen Ckaig Gorder and Tom McPhie The other three veterans on In 1967 when Bjorn took the the squad are seniors Dean jumping title Mats was the Drazton from Minneapolis nordic combined and four-wa- y Minn on the jumping hill and camp Mats is still trying to win Fred Duberow Bend Ore in downhill and slalom and more titles for Utah but now the Eric Von der Ahe sophomore as the ski coach for the RedTahoe City Calif who adds skins He has four depth to the teams alpine squad on this year’s squad With a good performance but none of them specialize in from his two new nordic men jumping Fredrik Bjemstad leads the Mats thinks his Utah squad will Scandinavian contingent at have tiie depth to challenge perUtah this winter Tbe'22year-ol- d petual NCAA champ Denver Oslo native was a top University for the 1971 collegiate title Junior in the nordic combined fellow-countrym- Foster Fights Frazier 0dds For Heavy Title DETROIT (UPI)— Bob Foster big men Three of the four lc 'ra in Foster's 45 professionvyweight champion’s elusive al bouts came against headream Wednesday night when vyweights — Zora Folley Ernie he:- tries to win the world Terrell and Doug Jones Even since becoming light heavyweight championship from Joe Frazier in a heavyweight champion Foster almost met disaster in a brief fight excursion into the heavyweight Almost all the great damp ami in the light ranks The opponent was Eddie heavyweight division tried — Vick a mere trialhorse seenames like Georgia Carpentier mingly without a single outstanding asset and yet Foster Jack O'Brien Ptlsdelphia Archie was knocked down near the aid Tommy Loughran Vick of the first round Moore Billy Conn Joey Maxim John Henry Lewis Gene contends to this day that the Tunney and Ton Gibbons -- and first round was lea than the customary three minutes so almost all of than failed Foster could be saved by the Only Tunney and Ruby Bob bell but the record book lists it Fitraimmona carved out their as a ninth-roun-d knockout by ridws in both divisions and Foster neither one was light heaThat knockout record is vyweight champ when he Foster's greatest recommendafopght for the big title Tunney tion Thirty-fiv- e of the 41 bouts held the American light hea- the Foster won vyweight title before wresting ended in kayoes and it was the frown from Jack Dempsey back in 1965 when he suffered add Fitzsimmons was a fading his last defeat to Folley shadow who had already lost Surprisingly enough the other the heavyweight crown when he thing Foster has going for him gained the light heavy title at is size He is Moot-- 3 the age of 41 tall and a special diet has Jhe odds are against Foster filled his stringbean build out to tod He's a 1 underdog despite 192 pounds Frazier a squat 1 2 will be at a 5 Minch hi impressive credentials and he reach disadvantage but will against has a long record of disappoint- weight about 15 pounds more ments and setbacks against the than Foster pursues every light - pear-cham- m 5-- I hea- ry skiing Minnesota winner of seven of eight games suddenly finds lead itself with a two-gaover the Lions after Detroit was handed a crushing defeat by New Orleans on Tom field Dempsey's record goal with two seconds remainrd ing The loss left the Lions with a M mark and another Sunday to the Vikings could just about wrap things up in that division Minnesota beat Detroit two weeka ago to go one game up and the Liona felt this was the week they could even things up That was however 39-1- 7 Ton Dempsey’s act “It's all uphill” says Detroit before Coach Joe Schmidt “But we know that if we can beat them Sunday we’re back in the race again Our guys know anything can happen in this crazy game If something goes against you it figures that the same thing can work for you We’re still alive I guesa I could say we’re still alive and kicking but after last Sunday I hate to use that other word” Coach Bud Crant of the Vikings feels that the Lions “will come in here knowing they have to win They certainly won't be lacking for incentive We shouldn’t be either The people in our division are the ones we have to be most concerned with” Defense is the name of the game for both teams Minnesota’s defense set up a pair of field goals last week with a fumble recovery and a Mocked punt the Vikings’ third of the season Detroit’s defense performed well against the Saints but lost the game on three interceptions and three lost fumbles One major change for Detroit could be the insertion of Greg Landry at quarterback in place of slumping Bill Munson The Vikings have been listed as eight-poifavorites for the game In other NFC action Sunday the New York Giants are 1 choices over Washington Chicago and Green Bay are listed as even and Atlanta is a nt “I see it as a fight between a a good little man” Foster says “and I'm the good Mg man I hit harder than Frazier Who did he ever take out with one punch? I don’t see how he can last more than seven rounds” Frazier’s record of consecutive victoria including 22 knockouts came against the leading men in the division and heavyweight most of them were bigger If the oddsmakers are right Foster might be no more than a tuneup for a hoped-fo- r meeting early next year between the 26-- y ear-olFrazier and Muhammad Ali At least Foster who has struggled most of his career for small paydays will come away with his biggest check 22 3 percent of the net revenue from the live gate and ancillaries Frazier has been guaranteed 6150000 against 40 percent Inter-conferen- 3 i Jur-gense-n) Bart Starr remains ble d The bout will actually mark Fiazier’s first defense since he gained undisputed recognition as champion by stopping Jimmy Ellis in February However since that bout AU banned from boxing and stripped of the title in 1967 has made a comeback to cloud the title once again Cleveland with rookie Mike nt week ce “How can you fee antagonistic toward someone who is great in the profession you have fay choice picked out for yourself?" This is Merlin Olsen a pro all the way Ski Clinic Set For Smithfield Phipps getting his first pro starting shot taka on a Bengal team that snapped a losing streak with a explosion against Buffalo last San Diego the best last-plateam in the NFL could help its slim AFC West title hopes against a Boston team that baa shown little offense this hurt Special to the Herald Journal The Smith-fiel- d SMITHFIELD Ski Clinic under the sponsorship of Larry Egbert has been scheduled to begin Wednesday night at 7:30 in the Smithfield Public Library - Baltimore winner of six in a row could just about wrap up the AFC Eut with a victory According to Egbert the clinic over Buffalo The Colts hold the will be similar to the one being biggest lead of any divisional held In Logan with a series of front-runn— three-game-s — meetings free to the public and all four rivals are playing showing films and having a guest lecturer badly er John Brodie the NFL’s leads the leading passer surprising Forty Niners leaders in the NFC West against injury-riddle- d Houston San Francisco winner of six of eight games with one tie holds a one game lead over Los Roy Bunderaon discussing skis and pries Nov 24 “Outer Limits” with Sorenson discussing boots and bindings Dec 2 “Incredible Skis” with Per Bob Parker relating conditioning and safety Dec 9 “Tiie Great Ski Chase" followed by a discussion on clothing and equipment maintenance by Pat Preston Dec 18 “The White Badge” with Ted Seehrizer discussing Beaver Mountain and travel to The schedule follows: Nov 16 “MoeMus Flip” with Beaver Mountain Angeles The Rams figure to have little problem with the Jets who might be down to their third quarterback Bob Davis Joe Namath is through for the year and sub A1 Woodall is nursing an injured left NOTICE Stop in and See the New BROWNING BIG GAME LEVER ACTION RIFLE! NOW AT Neal's Gun Shop 635 Main Smithfield S questiona- at quarterback for Green Bay with Don Horn scheduled to take his place while Bobby Douglass may get the call at quarterback for tiie Bears in place of Jack Concannon Atlanta played well in a tie with La Angela last week and Philadelphia snapped a seven-gam- e losing streak with its victory over Miami Oakland with two consecutive last-gaswinning performances by George Blanda tria to improve Its AFC West lead against fastfading Denver The Broncos' Floyd Little is the AFC’s lading rusher with 632 19-1- p yards Pittsburgh's defense which has helped the surprising Steelers gain a share of the AFC Central lead will be put to tiie test by Kansu City while RENTALS FIBERGLASS SKIS MARKER BINDINGS HUMANIC BOOTS and POLES SEASON SKI PASSES Regularly $11 500 However 25 fact the tilings you do you do subconsciously But it builds Mind you I’m not talking about anyone rise’s method Only my own” Merlin carefully printed out that in the professional world of football each man has his own way of preparing himself emotionally for the game he will play on the weekend “I’ve known players who only could play their best if they got themselves into an emotional foamy I’ve known others who built up antagonism for the opponent they would face the Imte philosophy’ "There is the ‘hate’ school of coaching Some coaches teach that hatred of your opponent is the best means to rouse teams up emotionally” Olsen stressed that even with proponents of the “hate school” professionals have too much respect for each other and for the game they represent to allow the emotion to be anything but a temporary device for game purposa only “I think profesafonals think too highly of themselves and others in their work to go about hating As if they were enemies of society” If it is not antagonism then toward the opponent you will face Sunday that helps you prepare to meet him what is it? “An objective To dominate him Each one of us in the game works with the idea of dominating the man he’ll be playing against” Again Olsen emphasized that the competitiveness is for the upcoming game that particular week “Next week you’ll have a different opponent” Oly said he regretted that he and his defensive line mates would not be facing Joe Namath this week because of the latter’s broken hand “I think any of tiie players in the league feds it when one of the greats goes down There’s regret if Namath or Gale Sayers or aoneone like that is SEASON SKI 9 good big man and favorite over Philadelphia St Louis is a one-prichoice over Dallas in Monday night's battle for the Eastern Division lead In American Conference play Oakland is 4 3 over Denver Kansas City nine over Pittsburgh Cleveland six over Cincinnati San Diego 15 over Boston and Baltimore 17 over Buffalo play finds Miami 1 M over New Orleans Los Angela 16 over the New York Jets and San Francisco 10 over Houston The Giants winners of five straight after three consecutive opening losses continue their bid for ' NFC East honors against the Redskins in battle of strong offenses Washington features the conference's top rusher (Larry Brown) the No 2 quarterback (Sonny and the No 1 receiver (Charley Taylor) The Giants’ strength lira in the No 3 passer (Fran Tarkenton) and the No 3 rusher (Ron Johnson) Both teams have shown sane improvement defensively of late Washington has allowed only one touchdown in the last 13 quarters and the Giant pan rush has dropped opposing 10 times in the last two four-poi- nt or a Tuesday” (Lien said slowly "This is not a 'conscious ‘Mg project at that time In Monday NOW ONLY 90 IF PURCHASED BEFORE NOVEMBER 30th In addition with the reduced price of $90 Beaver Mountain offers families an additional discount: 1st Family Member 2nd Family Member 3rd Family Member 4th Family Member $90 80 $80 EVERYDAY 'TIL THANKSGIVING 10-1- 2 75 With the Purchase of Every Pair of New or Retread Snow Tires! 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