| Show Utah Battles B. U. For Loop Lead Provo Club Favored Over Utes By Lea Baker With the Mountain Five's western division race right back where it started two weeks Utah's rebounding Redskins will trek to Provo for two tilts with Brigham Young's Cougars this week end in an attempt to break the deadlock with favorable the and Utah all boast a record as they approach the abbreviated season's half-way and this week's barring another will put one club on the favored Utes Come Back Vadal Peterson's Utes teams back Saturday night to wallop the after being given up for dead following their sound trouncing at the hands of the Farmers the night Whether their good showing Saturday was just a one-night stand remains to be and the Cougar fracases will go a long way toward deciding whether or not the Indians will have the questionable honor of lacing the classy cowboys of Wyoming in the conference play-off next Nothing be sweeter than to smear the Young quintet all over its bowling-alley gym right and the Redskins will go into action with one eye on the two lickings the handed them last year and the other on the last football season when the Utes' gridiron supremacy over their Provo neighbors ended with a sickening The Cougars won a lot of respect bv playing good ball on their eastern and playing in their own clothes closet will be a mighty tough nut to Peterson-tutored clubs have had better-than-average luck in the narrow Cougar confines in previous and the 1943 edition might come through with an At the learn is beginning to take shape with Freshmen Reed Grant a n d Fred Sheffield can go to work at a fair LeGrand who was drafted into hoop has work ed in well at guard and seems to have won a starting berth over veteran Tom Gregory is one good reason Wyoming run up 75 or 80 points instead of odd during the recent and should provo handy in holding BYU's Brady Walker and Rob Orr in Nelson Works Well Another defensive star who is blossoming is Frank a nice who'll share the guard assignments with Gregory and Kenny has been high point man in nearly every Ute encounter to and his hoop work this week end may mean the difference between victory and He's developed a pivot shot from his new center position and is a tireless ball Grant a n d Sheffield seem to have the forward positions well under control after their exhibition against the Logan and will start at the shooting jobs against the Ray Ecker will understudy and Merrill Packard will likely see plenty of action at forward or |
