Show I OUT OF THE I f There is bound to be confusion in the first year of any new The WAC has been no exception this One of the glaring faults has been the inability of the best team the conference to bring home the first WAC football Arizona State is unquestionably the finest team in the WAC this year The Sun Devils sport the best record in the area with six wins and one loss and one ASU plays only two WAC teams which does not qualify them for the however this problem is unavoidable in the scheduling of new conference simply because college football teams schedule their games four years in Fortie-Where'd He Come I'll wager there are alot of folks around this area who are vague as to where Eldon Fortie played his high school Elusive Eldon grew up right here in Salt and attended Granite High Fortie played regular as a senior at but didn't exactly burn up the league mainly because of his College weren't too keen on him after high and BYU is darn glad they It's always good to see a local boy rise up and make the national headlines as Fortie has done this most BYU fans are disappointed that Fortie hasn't come up in the national magazines as A good example of Fortie's national acclaim appeared in Sports Illustrated a couple of weeks Tn the letters to the editor department three Louis fans wrote and stated that Fortie's accomplishments so far this year were truly and how about a story on I Controversial Play Is Okey There's still alot of controversy over the play Navy used against Pittsburgh two weeks Although Navy went on to win by a score and it made little the Pittsburgh coach and a num- foer of others claimed it was an unfair J In case you didn't hear about the play Navy halfback Jimmy Stewart toward the sideline but never left the Instead he assumed a flanker position just inside the boundaries and caught a 66 yard touchdown Navy head coach Wayne Hardin defended his play by saying his team would never be caught off guard on such a boys cover the field from side to Hardin He went on to say that he cleared the play with the officials before the This is good football in my You have to congratulate Coach Hardin on his clever maneuver which may have provided Navy with an 1 Football Deaths Decrease At least once a year some sort of article appears condemning football on the grounds that it is unsafe and So far this year college football has not had a fatality recorded which speaks well for the sanity of the One of the main reasons for the decrease in deaths over last year is the improvement made by various helmet I'm sure that those fans who avidly watch the pro-football wars every Sunday marvel at the fact that very few injuries occur during the course of an In pro-football has had only two deaths in the last 31 This record is attributed to the fact that professional football players have rigid physical examinations three or four times a Terry a defensive fig ures to have his hands full with Utah's passing attack on |