Show Ik Redskins Take Basketball Title BILLY MCGILL grabs a rebound from Gordon Curt Al Eastland McGill Leave Skyline With Victory By NORM 6 HEY A Chronicle Sports Writer The Utah basketball Ute mentor Jack and Bill McGill got together Saturday night and gave fans in Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse something to remember them The Redskins defeated stubborn to gain their fourth consecutive Skyline They now possess the second-best record in Utah history Bob Hansen and Fred Gish look on as Danny Hawes Doug Moon move and home winning streak of thirty-four Jack Gardner added still another laurel to his coaching In the last nine years his teams have won the Skyline title six His teams have finished eight of the last nine years in the top ten and he is presently one of the coaches in major college BILL MCGILL became the third highest scorer in the history of college scored 50 and was recognized as the greatest player to ever don a Redskin The Redskins had to earn Saturday night's Wyoming was still very much in the ball-game until a little more than nine minutes when McGill scored nine straight points to drown the Cowboy hopes for an The contest was close throughout the first Utah's largest margin was a nine point 23 The Cowboys then closed the gap to six points at half-time when Ken Wyoming scored on two foul pitches and notched the score at Fred Gish scored nine of Wyoming's first 18 Curt Wyoming's all-conference finished the first half with 16 10 coming in the last five minutes of McGill went more than ten minutes without a but still managed to pick up 20 FORWARDING JOHN Allen scored 11 points in first half action while Ed Doug and Bo Crain all garnered There was a great deal of optimism that McGill could total on Page COACH Jack Gardner receives an award from cheerleader Sue Buehler in ceremonies after Saturday's Utah-Wyoming Redskins Clip from Page up 33 points in the second which would have put him in second place in hoop history with 1012 total points this He came amazingly close with a 30 point accomplished with and sometimes Cowboys dogging his every Wyoming used a zone defense the entire McGill frequently displayed his teamwork ability by passing off to teammates who had better After the Utes opened the score up with eight minutes all eyes focused on Mc-Gill's assault on the scoring Every Redskin player tried to feed the ball to McGill had a jump shot with about three seconds remaining which would have put his season total at a duplicate of Oscar Robertson's second place It rolled off the much to the displeasure of and six thousand In the final scoring fired 22 points for followed by Gish and Ron each with Al Eastland had Allen scored 17 points for the Bo Crain hustled in while Moon and Rowe scored six THE POST GAME awards were presented by Dean L. David Utah A. Ray and James R. director of All three expressed to regret that this Utah team couldn't go farther in Coach Gardner praised his three graduating seniors of this year's That Bill Ed and Joe Aufderheide will be sorely missed next year was a point which he Gardner is no doubt in my mind that Bill is the all time great in college He praised the Utah team by was one of the most surprising teams I've ever and I can't remember one with better or team |