| Show By Rulon Past Casaba Season Filled With Tilts This year's basketball season has been as unpredictable as the and Utah State besan the season on what appeared to bo al-most even The Cougars had made a trip where they met some of the nation's best although they won only one game in the Provo club reigned as Blight due to their fine showing made in every eastern The Utes and took preseason jaunts into northern Idaho and both schools playing the same Utah came hack with a better won-and-lost but still the were given an even break to crack through for either first or second place before the season's Favored Brigham Young started off league play by taking a drubbing from Coach Deb Young's then went on to win all seven remaining games The Utes divided their with Utah and from there on out held an undisputed cellar The after starting off beautifully with their first-night Cougar managed to keep in the race up until the last Y then folded to a twin beating from the It's no wonder that local forecasters have been wild as a March hare in making their predictions they were lucky to hit their games as close as they did The two Coaches Pete Couch and were said to have worn mighty long laces the other when workers commenced to tear the to One by-stander remarked that he could see huge tear drops come forth every time a nail was removed from the court Wonder if it was because they could see next year's hoop hoHs or if they felt bad because the remodeling didn't hit earlier this winter before Utah State and Brigham Young could get a chance at their Redskin B. U.'s campus newsmen left themselves wide open last issue when they predicted a close series Laramie this possibly a Y Chronicle crystal-gazers might remind the Cougar backers that Ute scriveners picked their Indians to take at least one tilt from the Cowboys In the season's opening and Wyoming nearly the Utes in both games We're making no and the who after all are this division's will have our complete But take our Y men look out for a Reed rte sophomore is recovering nicely from a shoulder which kept him from playing at Wyoming last This comes as good news to Ike Grant Is being counted on for points in the hurdles and jumps this The many friends of Dinar pal and trainer Of Utah athletes for as long as we can will he glad to hear that the doc is recuperating satisfactorily from the illness that has had him laid up for the last few Biggest problem on the athletic front at present is the competitive athletic status of army who'll soon be entering college campuses all over the Military men differ wisely in opinions on the Some say that the soldiers will be too busy to participate in college while a large group of others hold that such athletics are just what the doctor should to train future army leaders in body coordination and mental The navy department has already given approval to its college but Uncle Sam's army men are still being backward about the whole thing This argument should see some interesting developments in the near future Practically every member of Utah's basketball squad plane to play in the approaching AAU tournament in Salt Lake The amateur joust took on a new luster this year when state officials voted to discontinue the state high school basketball tournament long the featured winter sports event in Utah and athletes from all over the state are being lined up by local Tom Lannan and Ken have joined up with Kickers while Frank Legrande Gregory and Burt Davis will for the One or two other Utes will likely be signed up before the event gets Utah's series with Wyoming last weekend produced some humorous sidelights that be passed Nick reserve seems to have been the of the Indian club as far as news In Saturday night's reserve Puncher got a little hefty with the former Montana flash and started to mix it up with body Nick retaliated with a looping right that nearly caught Collins behind the It was reported in newspapers immediately following the game that both Barovich and Collins were but Coach Valad Peterson merely substituted a man in Nick's Only the Cowboy lad was ruled out by the LeGrande Gregory was called out on fouls in the last half of Saturday night's and when sub Merrill Packer stepped to the Greg immediately headed for the The Wyoming official whistled him just as LeGrande reached the The called foul was charged to Tom Lannan this so Greg resumed and Tom now having four hit for the |
