| Show Picks All-Big 7 Hoop Titans Chronicle All-Conference team left to George Rob Pete all of Dwayne Esplin of B. Beb Smith of Big Seven Champs Dominate Honor Hoop Squad By LES BAKER Slapping the lid down tight on the greatest season in Big Seven basketball the Chronicle sports department named three one and one Utah eager on their annual all-conference selections for The season was marked by the playing of four great ball clubs and a dozen or more brilliant individual Good teams would have had a share in the title in other years were knocked into the mediocre ranks in conference and one of the best teams in the country had to be content with a share in runner-up even though they had a better ball club than their championship crew of last Colorado's Boulder who ran away with the race by racing through eleven impressive victories while losing only a one-point tilt to completely dominated the season the all-conference placing Leason Bob and George on the honor who challenged Colorado early in the season and finished the season in a second-place tie with placed one little Dwayne in one forward The fourth-place Indians of Utah are represented by Deb sensational Ute who won the fifth spot on the mythical McCloud and Smith made the select group for the second straight showing marked improvement over the play that won them recognition last Second team honors go to Ken Sailors of Wyoming and Ken Sow-ards of Utah at Bill of Wyoming and Milo Komenich of Wyoming at and Frank Fullmer of BYU at Fullmer played forward during the season in the Cougar set-up and Komenich worked the pivot slot for Wyoming in league but the two stars could hardly be left off the honor McCloud was probably the outstanding player in the He paced Colorado throughout the season and set the pace in league scoring throughout most of the He became the first player in Big Seven history to win the scoring championship two years by rolling in an astounding total of points for a 16 point average in the twelve He bettered his mark by 36 He was high-point man in most of the Buff victories and his uncanny shooting was the main reason Colorado won the He climaxed his college career in typical sailing 22 points through the hoop as his mates downed Utah Mighty mite of the little Dwayne paced the Cougars of Brigham Young with sparkling performances to give them their tie for The former Dixie star made up for his lack of height with his net-slicing from all over the His rebound and floor work were excellent and didn't have a poor night all Buff Bob Doll and Cowboy Milo Komenich were the outstanding pivot men of the They finished second and in conference Doll having points to Komenich's Doll won first-team center post for his all-around ability and Komenich was named to a guard post on the alternate Doll won individual scoring honors for one evening when he slapped 24 tallies through the hoop against Colorado Three of the greatest guards in the nation fought it out in Big Seven with George Hamburg- of Colorado and Deb Smith of Utah getting the nod over last year's all-American sensation from Bill had a rather slow season up until his last two while Hamburg was the defensive mainstay of Colorado and Smith was the of the Utah team throughout the Hamburg had an average of points per game and his great work on the Buff guard line was beyond He worked the backboard consistently and usually had Colorado in possession of the Smith played better ball than he did when he was named all-conference last Courtesy Salt Lake |
