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Show Jack Says . . . CHALK TALK tered under the weight of a would be dunker hanging on the rim and many a bent rim held up play) the dunk shot was outlawed several years ago. Legal now during games (not in warm-up) the "stuff" or "dunk", long an exciting part of pro-ball, will add a new deminsion to the high school game. BY Jack Hill Nearly 30,000 fans packed Rice Stadium to hear the revived Utah band play "Utah Man Am I " and watch wat-ch a revived Ute football team beat the BYU Cougars. The band played, the crowd cheered but the Ute team wasn't quite revived as the Cougars scalped the Utes. . . for the fifth year in a row. Score, 34-12, but it wasn't that close. Giff Nielsen concluded the regular season by "picking" the Utes apart, establishing a number of BYU and WAC records besides leading the Cougars to a share of the WAC title and a trip to the Tangerine Bowl. Just a junior, Nielsen has another year before the pro's draft him in the first round. He's not a runner, but at 6 ft. 5 inches with a great arm and the ability to "read" defenses, defen-ses, he'll go high, very high in the "78" draft. Utah fans, feeling a bit ocky after a pair of wins over New Mexico and Arizona State, decked the stadium with signs like; "BYU, WHERE THE WOMEN ARE WOMEN AND THE MEN ARE TOO." Several inebriated Ute boosters, along with their signs of questionable propriety were escorted out of the stadium by campus secruity. FOOTBALL & BASKETBALL OVERLAP Scouting for Coach Allred at American Fork Saturday night, I had to occasionally remind myself that it was basketball I was watching, not the Cougars and the Utes playing football. Realizing that football just ended for the high schools helps explain the "smash em up style" of defense that A.F. employed agaist visiting Logan. Several A.F. fans repeatedly cajoled the officials of-ficials to "let em play, there won't be any one left to finish the game." If they had let them "play" there wouldn't have been any one left to finish the season! As it was, seven Cavemen fouled out and in my opinion, seven more should have. THE "STUFF" Ray Walker gave the crowd a thrill against Judge Friday night. Late in the final period, Bret Frampton flipped flip-ped Walker a beautiful pass that the 6 foot seven inch center took to the hoop for a two handed "stuff." Due to damage to players, bankboards and rims (several glass bankboards were shat- |