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Show Colorful Grid Show Forecast For Aggie Stadium Saturday Cache football fans will have an opportunity op-portunity to see two fine teams in action Saturday in the Utah State stadium when the Utah Aggies play host to the Nevada University Wolfpack in the only collegiate game in the state. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p. m. The visitors, who already have played four games this season, winning two and losing two, will take the field as slight favorites. They will outweigh the Utags 14 points on the line and five pounds in the backfield, giving them a distinct advantage ad-vantage on paper. M The young farmers, however are a potent ball club and it undoubtedly will be the best football show of the season in the Aggie bowl. Both teams use the fast T-formation offense and a wide-open game full of foootball thrills is predicted. Coach Dick Romney will wind up his preparations for the contest this afternoon with a short signal drill, while Coach Jim Aiken is drilling his griders in Ogden. The Wolves will come to Logan Saturday morning mor-ning and return to Reno immediately after the contest. Romney, still a little undecided about urn . his starters, said Captain Burns Crookston, quarterback; .Nick Cap-uto, Cap-uto, fullback, Ernie Groll, former Logan high ace and Blaine (Spike) Heywood, a graduate of Davis high, would make up the backfield quartet. Reserves will be George Cornia, quarter; Bert Hardy and Stan Follett, halfbacks with Wesley Blood, fullback. Garth Belliston, another reserve quarterback, also will see plenty of ncraon. On the line, Keith Whitesides and Johnny "Putnik are waging a private battle for the left end assignment, with Con Maughan of South Cache and Dean Papadakis of West, fighting it out for the other wingpost. Max Beuhler is pushing Marv Abrams plenty hard for a starting tackle . assignment, while Lane Nalder seems to have the right guard position cinched. He replaces Udell Wankier, who was injured last week. W. C. (Pop) Anderson will see a lot of action at this post also. Lyle Hale, husky tackle, Howard How-ard Hansen, guard, and Lavon Porter, center, are certain to start the game. Bob Bates, Ben Canning and Royal (ox) Reid will be the first line reserves. A large contingent of wounded soldiers from Bushnell General hospital, Brigham City will attend the game as guests of the USAC j athletic department. RENO, Nev. Coach Jim Aiken has decided upon his starting lineup for Saturday's game at Logan Lo-gan against Utah State, working up a backfield for his 'T" formation forma-tion which gives him a pair of triple-threaters in the lineup. The pass-plunge-punt duo is Bill Mackrides and Alf Sorensen. Mackrides,' 183-pound soph from Philadelphia, had his best day in the opening game when he completed com-pleted 11 out of 13 passes against Tonopah. He'll start at quarterback. quarter-back. Sorensen, 28-year-old senior veteran from Sparks, Nev., will open at left half and may be called upon to do a heavy share of the running and kicking. Right half is Al Nocciolo, elusive scat back who scales 160. He's a frosh from Newark, N. J. At fullback full-back is diminuitive but hard-driving Larry Heinz, 165;pound transfer trans-fer from Wisconsin, a product of the Chicago high schools. Small but clever is the starting center, 160-pound Ben Coren, soph from Philadelphia, who starred star-red as a "watch-fob guard" last season. One guard is Gus Cammar-ano, Cammar-ano, short but burly, freshman from " Garfield, N. J. who bears (Continued on page Eight) FORECAST FOR SATURDAY 1 COLORFUL GRID SHOW (Continued from page One) 228 pounds on his five foot-nine inch frame. The other is broad-shouldered broad-shouldered Jack Dieringer, 190-pound 190-pound soph from Reno. Fred Klugge, 195, frosh from West Orange, N. J., has won a starting berth at tackle spot, . while his running mate is the redoubtable redoubt-able Bob "Buster" McClure, Nevada's Ne-vada's star sophomore and team captain, who tips the beam at 215. He now makes his home in Reno, j coming from Flora, 111. j One end is Harold Hayes, lanky I 168-pounder, frosh from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the other is I Elmer Green, huge negro freshman fresh-man from Philadelphia, who tips the scales at 211. Both are only 17 years old, but stand six-feet two inches. |