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Show T-Birds Open Basketball Season With Games Against Nevada Teams The College of Southern Utah Thunderbirds will undertake their first road trip of the basketball bas-ketball season Friday and Saturday Satur-day when they travel to Las Vegas, Ve-gas, Nev. to take on a service team and the Junior varsity of Nevada Southern. In reality the game Friday evening against Lake Mead Base at Las Vegas will be the first game of the season for the T-Birds under the guidance of Coach Boyd Adams. The T-Birds did make a public appearance Friday evening tackling tack-ling the Alumni in the annual Don Marshall Scholarship benefit bene-fit game. Saturday evening It will be Nevada Southern JV's. Time difference will make a change In times for the two contests. con-tests. Friday evening the game will be at 9 p. m. Mountain! Standard Time and Saturday evening the squad will be playing play-ing at 6 p. m. there, which will be 7 p. m. in Cedar City. The Saturday evening gume is scheduled to be broadcast over radio station KSUB at 7 p. m. Coach Adams will take a 12-man 12-man traveling squad to Vegas for the first series of games. Remaining Re-maining at home will be Elliott Anderson, a forward, who suffered suffer-ed a knee injury in the CSU-Alumni CSU-Alumni game last week. The final selection for the remaining members has not yet been made. Alson on the questionable list is George Tusulus, who Injured his feet while playing football and who Is still not functioning at full steam. For the two contests Coach Adams is expected to continue to give every man he can an opportunity oppor-tunity to see action with some questions still remaining as to the talents of the squad members. mem-bers. It is also expected that he will go somewhat the same in his starting alignment as he did in the alumni contest, but that could be changed by the week end, he said. Lettermen LaMar Pugh at center and Marian Roper Rop-er at forward saw considerable consider-able action last week. Mel Wads-worth, Wads-worth, a freshman from Milford was the other starting forward with Hank Halversen, a transfer trans-fer from the Nevada Southern squad of last season, and Ray Greensberg, a product of West High School in Salt Lake City at the guard post Also seeing action ac-tion last week at guard was Bob Chambers of Salt Lake City, Paul West of Murray and Don Johnson of East Lynn Jensen, It appeared, was playing behind Pugh at the center spot. Steve Cahoon of Cedar City will probably pro-bably see considerable action at the forward spot |