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Show BYU Cougars To Play Powerful San Jose State At Provo Tonight rROVO (Special)- After putting put-ting the experts to shame with a sound licking of Montana, Brigham Young University's football t.m will shoot for an upset victory this weekend against powerful San Jo.se State. Tonight in the Y stadium, the Cougars will dig in for the invasion invas-ion of the touted Spartans, who notched their first victory of the season Friday with a 3-1-6 trouncing troun-cing of Idaho University. In the light of the Cougais' manpower man-power troubles, the visiting club from California will b" from a two to three touchdown favorite at the 8 p.m. kickoff time. Reports fi urn the Const say the Golden Raiders are even belter than last year's edition, a team that ranked second in the nation in rushing. Coach Atkinson, who was encouraged en-couraged with the. Cougars 27-13 dumping of Montana last Saturday Satur-day night, will again lean on his young, spirited regulars for the major part of the contest. Boys like Lehi's Dick Felt, Orem's Stol-worfhy Stol-worfhy boys (Reed and Willy) and several other key players will un doubtedly be the main factors in I lie coming game. Reed Stolwoi thy, Cougar full-hack, full-hack, averaged nearly 1.5 yards per try for the 10 times he carried the ball Saturday night. Kelt kept the Cats in Die game -with two punt returns that netted the university uni-versity 87 yards. Three other Utah County boys also registered well with observers observ-ers at the Skyline opener. O'em's Tommy Ve banal v. is showing great promise as an end. Ralph Poweis, anollr-r former Lehi star up from the frosli ranks, is logging time as a laekle for the va j si t y. An in jury has handicapped Die y-hi player, but he should be ready for tonight 's gam--. American I'"oi I'.'s Cal Moir-on, first si l ing laekle, won high praise fiom Coach Chic Atkinson for his efforts against Montana. The responsibility re-sponsibility of holding down left laekle rests on Oil's shoulders. A crowd of heifer- than 8,000 fans is expected to witness the sixth me'-fing of San Jose and 1'YU. The Spartans captured each of the five previous meetings with points to spare. |