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Show Coach Petty Eyes Promising Players For Berth on Bronco Hoop Squad Cleo Petty, physical education director and basketball coach at the College of Southern Utah, has been working a small squad of players hard the past week in an attempt to put them in shape for the first series of practice games to be held next week. I Only three members of last year's championship squad are I back this year, but the coach has I some promising players from last year's high school teams of the area, from which to build the Bronco squad for the 1051 race. ! The three members of last year's squad, none of them "starters" in 1953, are Derald Evans, David Magleby and Larry Crawford. Evans saw more ac- jtion than any of the three last year. He hails from Tooele, is a left-handed iliooter, and although al-though only G feet 1 inch, is a good rebounder. Magleby hails from Monroe, and is a steady defensive performer. Crawford, an Idaho all-state player in 1952, comes from Preston, Idaho, and should be a valuable man this year. He is rugged and a good shooter. Am'sng the new members working out with the squad are two Nevada all-state players from Las Vc:s. Both have looked look-ed very promising in early prrc-tices. prrc-tices. Jerry Conger, one of tho Nevada pair, is small but ver fast and a good floor man. Kent Huntsman, the other Nevadan, is a rangy l id who should bo valuable under the baskets. Two men from Region Two, John Wood and Ronald Hush, are showing promise. Both have been on the Bronco football squad, with Wood one of the top performers per-formers of the team. Wood comes from Murray and Bush from Too-ele. Too-ele. Ray Robinson, a mainstay of the Hinckley high school team last year, has donned a Bronco suit, and should be a valuable asset to Coach Petty's squad. Jack Shipp and Rex Erickson, members of last year's Monroe high school te un, both of whom showed well in the state tournament, tourna-ment, round out the "out of town" aggregation. Members of last year's Cedar high school team trying for places on t he Bronco squad are Keith Cooley, Ray Stephenson and Don Ray Melling. Craig Jones, another top Cedar high performer, wlu was not in school last year, is trying for a position posi-tion on the team this year, as is Bob Frame, who attended last year but wis not on the Bronco squad. The Broncos will see their first action next Wednesday evening, when they travel to Las Vegas for a game wi'ii Nellis Air Force team. Local f,tns, however, will see the team in action on Dec. 3 and 4 when the Fort Lewis A & M team from Colorado plays two games in the memorial field-house. field-house. The big event of the practice season will no the annual Bronco Invitational Tournament, to be be played Christmas week, Dec. 22, 23 and 21, with six teams, three from Utah, two from California Cali-fornia and one from Idaho taking tak-ing part. Three gam.s will be played each night with the Broncos, Dixie Dix-ie Rebels, and Westminster Parsons Par-sons of Utah, the Ricks Vikings of Idaho and the junior college teams from San Bernardino and Fullerton, Calif., playing. Each team will play three games. |