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Show BYU Tangles With New Mexico In Opener Saturday Football returns to Utah Valley Val-ley this Saturday night when local lo-cal pikskin fans who follow the college game converge on Pvovo for the Skyline opener between Biigham Young University and New Mexico. The Cougars, who have been plugging away on the Y practice field since Sept. 1, will tangle with the Lobos in the University stadium stad-ium at 8 p.m. the night of Sept. 18. Right now the Y gridders are working toward the finest home game schedule they've had in recent re-cent years. Besides the New Mexico Mex-ico game, the Cougar eleven will play Arizona State (Tempe), Utah University, Montana and Wyoming. Wyom-ing. A turn-away crowd is expected for the always-thrilling Utah game while the Montana game will be carried anationally over ABC-TV. It will be the first event ever televised tele-vised nationally from Utah Valley. Val-ley. As for the report that the Cougars Cou-gars are the logical choice for the Skyline cellar this year, Coach Atkinson At-kinson and staff are showing nothing noth-ing but contempt for the forecast. The players, too, are paying little attention to the prognosticators as they settle down to the nigged routine of preparing for the season. seas-on. "Sure, we have a young team. Sure, we'll be counting on our sophomores," admitted Atkinson. "But our club has good depth and reserve strength, and I've never ' seen boys with more hustle. Somebody's Some-body's going to be in for a surprise." sur-prise." The first surprise could come in the BYU opener with New Mexico. The big, rugged Lobo eleven is the Skyline "darkhorse," while the Cougars are sure to enter the game as underdogs. Several players listed on the 1954 roster at BYU are former prep stars from Utah Valley. They include Tom Verbanatz, Ray Noel and Willard .Stolworthy of Orem; Bob Smith of American Fork; Ralph Powers and Dick Felt of Lehi; and Dave Kimball and Dave McLaren of Provo. |