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Show ledskoDD E2nch f.UUcp nifiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiimmiiiiniimitiiniminBnintmDimnii! What Makes C 15BY6 Wyoming Tick?? ViL. ( iiuniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiintniiiiiminmimiimininiranRmnm) Ask any other coach, or any other fan. And then for final proof look at the records. They have won three straight m what is considered a very strong conference, and are favored for a fourth. What makes it so? Men, of course. One man in particular the head football coach, Lloyd Eaton. He has the came as the scholarships between 95 others and 100. He has a Lloyd Eaton to 30 about 40 fresh. squad He holds out about a dozen scholarships for students each year the pressures are always on him as they are any state school to spend y those grants at home. But he doesnt count on too many Wyoming boys and he carries a list around in his pocket to show what has happened to the last 90 Wyoming players he granted aids. The final tab isnt encouraging and you cant make it go on Wyoming boys alone too many schools play six and eight-ma- n football and this is bad preparation for the college circuits. Where does he get them? Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan and the area around Chicago and north of Chicago. Each of his coaches has a route to follow in the aforementioned states and covers the ground well. i: We cannot take them from the Big Ten and usually we lose out to the Big Eight But we tell the men, all of them the top players, that if they feel they dont want to play in the Big Ten that the best next league is the Western Athletic Conference and that in the WAC Wyoming is the only place to be, Eaton said. 60-m- an in-sta- te give-awa- ' ' x f Seek Only The Best We dont go for the second raters. We deal with quality players and try and appeal to them so that if they dont want the Big Ten they will want Wyoming. That system is the best yet, because it works. Why it works is because Wyoming will take a man if he is 5--9 and 185 pounds. Usually that size man will sit on the bench at Minnesota, or miss the action at, Michigan State., There are too many be- -. hemoths in the Big 10. I' The lad wants to play fooball. Hes cut out of the right cloth. In fact he has more going for him because he has to have more to than the biggie make tha grade. So he goes to Wyoming! If there is a secret 'j that is it. If there is an answer to why Wyoming always does so much with the Utile guys this Is -also the answer. ; 'like Eaton says, Wyoming has the best 9 football team in the nation. li j Eaton also has a way of working his way into the hearts of his men. Take his kicker, Bob Jacobs, for instance. One day last season he went to the coach and said, Coach I dont have much to do with getting that ball within 35 yards of that goal line, but if youll somehow get it there Ill see that it gets through the uprights for three! You have to like that kind of spunk! Eaton ' ' said. I y , It Isn't I: There is no magic around the Wyoming camp Its just a matter of hard work, and devotion to football. Sometimes we shake em when they come as freshmen and tell them the sideburns must go and the hair will be trimmed according to our themsquad rules. Some of them cry about it to call we that catch what when selves, but they hairabout fuss have never we fever any Cowboy lines, or curls. Wyoming has another routine worth noting t contact work in the has It very little game-typ- e !: j fall we learn all We do all of that in the spring about our men then. By the time the fall rolls around we have to work on specialties, plays, programs and attitudes toward winning, the , coach said. He doesnt Eaton likes his men heads business of their old this for knocking go until they fall down and then forming his football around those who were the last to fall Dont get it from me that Eaton Is a cocky man. He Isnt. He says he will get beat at least believes that all teams once In conference play will. He says hes not as good as he was last season but could mature into a better outfit. i Eaton has a humble hat, really. He says ASU should be great this year, Arizona should be strong enough to beat anyone, that Utah could be the sleeper and BYU is always a tough one. And hes the proof that nice guys do win! game-hungr- y. : ! . BULLETIN -WASHINGTON (AP) National David Ring, Basketball Association team guard with the Detroit Pistons, has signed a long term contract to play for the new Washington Capitols of the American Basketball Association, the Caps president announced Wednesday. Bat Earl Foreman, owner of tiie new ABA team, told re all-st- ar r t I porters at a news conference that Bing Is under contract with the Pistons and probably wil play again this season with Detroit SECTION D Sports -3, 6-- 8 $Z University of Utah wiil field football team than it did last year. It will pass the ball more, and with greater success. It will run faster and farther. It will defend better and it will defeat more teams than it did last year with a 7 record. All this came off the enthusiastic lip of Coach Bill Meek as he presented his plans to the Skywriters tour when tiie group hit the Utah campus. Meek has reasons for his L The optimism. He says: men are now mine and they have learned my ways whereas last year they hadnt 2. Last year we moved every man into another position in offense. This year the men wiil be their second year in the same positions. With a better FOREST HILLS, N.Y. the open, Margaret Australians took Smith Court of Australia and (UPI) home all but one of the prizes Marty Riessen of Evanston, at stake in the $137,000 U.S. 111., won the mixed doubles open tennis championships, crown from Francoise Durr of but left behind in turn a disFrance and Ralston, appointing memory. This gave Australia at least Twq mens doubles teams a share of four of the five from Australia defaulted their titles as Laver earlier won the matches on the final day of mens singles and Mrs, Court d the tournament the womens singles. The only Tuesday, disappointing just crown to escape the forces about all of the 131 fans who from down under was the turned up at the West Side womens doubles, won by Miss Durr and Darlene Hard Tennis Club. John Newcombe and Tony of Los Angeles. Laver returned to his home Roche withdrew fiom their in Corona Del Mar, Calif., to Denquarterfinal match with be with his wife, who is expecting a baby any day and Roche reportedly has a sore left arm. However, 7-- i ! ; - Roche went with Newcombe to Chicago for another tourna- ment. Wed have had to play two and one-hamatches today and it wouldnt be fair, Newcombe said in explanation system last year. This year they will know the system with a years experience. 4. We started a weight and exercise program and this year our men are back bigger and quicker. That should make us better. lf ' before leaving. As a result of the unusual windup, Ralston found himself in the strange predicament Tuesday of being involved in four matches. He won the two A third Australian team, Ken Rosewall and Fred Stolle, still managed to win the title, however, by beating Ralston and Pasarell, '' 4$ Then Coach Meek pointed to Ray Groth, for instance. We had to shift this man quickly i 2-- 7-- he didnt play (the defaults), but lost the two he did play (the mens doubles and mired doubles finals). 13-1- 6-- 3. In the final competition of ' . ' Pennant Race Rated M' For Fans Mot-Cub Senior halfback Bill Fowler This year we have more receivers, and some good ones, which will help us our passing play, Meek said. Groth is a good option . man. Also we have Clint Har- din working behind Groth who is a fine quarterback. Scott Robbins, a high school flash, is third up but right now Scott is not being touted , for any big play. in the first game against Oregon Sept. 20. Meek had praise for his of-- will be instrumental in Utah plans. fensive backfield and would start Groth, sophomore Fred Graves at halfback, senior Bill Fowier at right half and senior Dave Smith at full-back. On the line he would have Dale Nosworthy and J. R. ' Knight at the flanks, Marion Boykin and Gordon Jolley at tackles, Kurt Bellock and Dale Pino at guards and Ryan Williams at center. Line backers will be Larry Stone and Dwight Staten with Buddy Witte and Mike Rich at tackles, Mack Powell at middle guard and Randy sen and Jerry Simonson on the flanks. Norm Thomas, Gary Barker, Joe Galarze and Craig Smith make up the first-teadefensive backfield. Utah has one of its better schedules. Ir opens against follows at home Oregon, Han-spre- i against San Jose State and then goes to Utep at El Paso and comes home against Ari-zona State. NEW owie nius. YORK (UPI) Kuhn looks like a Its almost and wave white handkerchiefs. At Wrigley Field, they wear hard hats. At both sites, there is more color than the NBC peacock has to offer. Enough water to wash tiie soot off the New Yorkers and all the perspiration off the shirtless Bleacher Bums in Chicago. Sometimes, the fans get a -Bge- still there are two pennant races, both in the National League, and both rated M. If youre immature or emo- tional, tilings like the Mets-Cushowdowns are not. for e you. The most recent series here proved that. At Shea Stadium, the fans little carried away, like Tuesday night when a Met booster ran out to the mound in the ; eighth inning. two-gam- Pros Challenge To Utah Open Golf Race te By GEORGE Alpine Country Gub. Joe is a competitor supreme. He is high up in the Challenge Cup race, with a good year on the Utah circuit Then there is sly Jim Baker, who won the Hiko Bell test at Vernal. He is capable of sensational rounds. His big problem has been consistency. There are those who say when Ralph Johnson, Hill Field AFB, gets more competition under his belt, hell be one of tiie best scorers in the FERGUSON Sports Managing Editor FARMINGTON - It isnt presumptuous to assume that an professional could very well win the 1969 Utah Open golf title at Oakridge ' ' That hasnt happened since Ernie Schneiter Jr. won the Utah Open at Ogden Country Gub with a par effort. Ernie will be one of the favored pros when tee time rolls around for 1969s test Thursday morn1966 when prelude to the classic $12,000 Beehive sponsored mainly by Dee Smiths Food King chain got under way Wednesday. Fifty professionals, teaming with 150 amateurr, will digest dursome local knowkjge tour which ing the pro-athey hope will pave the way toward some Utah Open gold. After winning the 1966 Utah Open, Ernie had a couple of frustrating years. But he appears to have recaptured his touch this year. .. Former BYU golfer John Evans, now assistant pro at Logan Country Club, is leading the Challenge Cup race which indicates he has been the most consistent player on 1969 golf circuit two rounds with defending champion Dick Payne and Bob Duden. Bob was tied for seccnd with ' Payne after three rounds, but finished eighth with a final round 75. In 1966, state. This is Ralphs first year of competition as a pro. Hes scored well Two other toughies are Billy Downs, Round Valley pro and Pat Dolan, assistant at Salt Lake Country Gub. Dolan ended 1968 regulation play tied with Duden and Payne. There are other definite instate contenders . . . Kramer, Kean Ridd, Tommy Williams, Lanny Nielsen and Terry Malan. , te M Pro-amate- John fired a 65 practice round at Oakridge a few days ago. If he can keep his booming drives from catching the which encroaching - roughs have tightened Oakridges fairways, John has an excellent chance to go all the way. Bob Droz, young pro from Carbon Country Gub, has had some near misses in past Utah Opens. In the 1968 event at Riverside Country Gub, Droz was in a tie after Sears Track Tire Center 175 West 1300 South nBssQasassgccasnscszzZuanU ing. Utahs 6-- rain-plague- few exceptions. 3. We had to change our In-Sta- 1 two-wee- k 3-- into quarterback. He did a great job considering his time in this slot This year we have him well rounded and ready. He should be worth twice a3 much to us, the Ute chief said. The Utes have 24 lettermen back. Last year they had just enough men to play ' two teams. When one of their first men on offense or defense got hurt the team was hurt. We were so thin last year that some of the coaches filled in at the scrimmage lines for the absent players. This year we can spare tin coaches somewhat! With the exception of Speedy Thomas, Utah is faster in the backfield than it was last year. Thomas didnt start the first game, but came along to where the passers preferred him. D Different Twist; Winning Quitters ct By HACK MILLER Country Club. Magic r1 v.,' Deseret News Sports Editor - 5-- Wednesday, September 10, 1969 Pass, Run Big Plans LARAMIE Wyoming has the most solid football program in the Western Athletic Confer' ence. U Don Johnson . . . returns to Utah Bob was tied at third with Bruce Surnmerhays after sharing the first round lead with Surnmerhays. Droz also finished in the top 15 in the 1967 Utah Open at Hidden Valley Country Gub. Craig Ridd appears to be on top of his game. In the 1967 after winning test, Craig the Utah State Amateur title shared the second round lead with Francisco Lopez and Don Johnson. Craig wound up in a tie for third with Lopez, Billy Johnston, and Dick Kramer. He tied for 17th in the 1968 test. 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