Show i I Twice Utes-Twice Twice Humbled By Bp Fast Cougar Offense B. B Y U. U Takes Initial Conference Contests Jerry Smith Proves Proves' to toBe Be Utah's Scoring Punch Brinley Rowe Dixon Uphold Provo Laurels Going down to a to take setback set- set lack back ba k at the vengeful hands of the Brigham Young Cougars the Utah Redskins received their baptism of conference fire 41 38 on the floor of the Pr Provo vo high gym Friday January 19 19 9 In the opening half balf the two teams play on even merits neither five displaying anything sensational sensational sensa- sensa in the way of teamwork al although although al- al though both guard lines worked to advantage Utah due to the efforts of Jonas and Smith maintained a 1 lead and led at the half 20 Play was very inc inconsistent in this half however for both teams With the beginning of the second second second sec sec- ond half Couch ent entered red the fray in place of Lorraine Cox and the Utes began a drive that that- n netted them a ten point lead lead over the gasping Cougars with but seven minutes to go The Cougars at this period of the game seemed unable to stop the U Ute e scoring offense and Smith Jonas and Couch worked the ball baIl down the floor time aftertime to slip in an easy basket In the closing minutes of the fray B. B Y U. U revived ed and when Brimley slipped in a brilliant shot the Cougars snapped out of the lethargy Ingersoll replaced the tired tired Rowe and nd with Dixon and Brinl Brinley displaying g accuracy they began to warm the basket with successive scores f Coach Peterson inserted Reese LI LIv Llewellyn v Il n into the fray and he threw fouls fouts in succession n to maint maintain main main- t thin tain in Utah's lead Another Another- basket by Brinley and one by Dixon gave the Y a score of 41 and although Couch slipped another one in forthe for forthe the thc Utes a n half a minute later theY the theY theY Y still held a margin of 3 3 points when the gun sounded The Cougars turned in a second triumph over the Redskins ns Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day night by the score of 49 40 to 45 Just Justas as in the night before the Utes had a large lead only to see it vanish so did the Cougars obtain a lead only to it see groW grov smaller and smaller as as' the battling Utes led by Jerry Smith swished the ball through the hoop again and again But the Cougars stopped the Ute rampage in time to emerged merged victorious and take the lead in the race for the conference bunting At the start of the game Utah took the lead but were soon overhauled by the Cougars The half ended 22 to 20 in favor of the B. B Y U. U Brilliant shooting by Brinley Brinley Brinley Brin Brin- ley Rowe and Dixon for the Y uY and nd equalizing shots by Smith J Jonas Jonas Jo Jo- 0 nas nas' and Couch kept the teams within close proximity of each other but gradually the Cougar le lead led d began to lengthen until with b but t four minutes to go Smith sunk three shots from the vicinity of the foul line Cox added one and the Utes seemed to take renewed hope A cIo close cloe e one by Brinley and another r basket by Dixon took the steam from Utah's sails and as the whistle ended hostilities the score I before was 49 to 45 as we have observed I The Utah quint played surprisingly surprisingly surprisingly good ball with Jerry Smith providing the big punch as exemplified exem exem- e. e exemplified em- em I in his nine baskets Jonas and Couch looked good as did Llewellyn who in his first starting chance sunk two baskets within the brief time he was in the fray For the Cougars Rowe Dixon and 1 were impressive Brinley was guarded closely due to his rampage ge of the night before but at that he made enough points to be plenty damaging to the Utes vision heading Brinley by one point and Thompson by five Not bad for a youngster just trying to get along A topped sorrel-topped Aggie by the name of Red Wade is now the reigning sovereign of Logan It was this flaming youths youth's sensational sensational sensational sensa sensa- guarding and long shot wizardry wizardry wizardry wiz wiz- ardry which enabled the Farmers to stop the heretofore irresistible Bobcats Even in the first game t p the were battling on even terms until Wade was removed I from the game because of four personal fouls Wade does get personal personal personal per per- at times Vadal Peterson sure has instigated instigated instigated gated a ch change in the Ute h hoop hoop- op- op offense since the Wyoming games Forty-five Forty and thirty-eight thirty points presages an offense that is not to be sniffed at And dont don't forget that the Utes have just started to show their real ability Speaking of Peterson reminds us that he predicted the to triumph in at least one of the games What was a distinct upset to most every one was not even a surprise to Pete He forewarned us that the had a n. stronger team than most people thought A prognosticator of rare ability is Vadal |