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Show Cougar Basliefl ball Squcsd Reduced To Twelve fJlen i Twelve hustling Cougars at' wiion High School have been cnosen by Coaches Glen Allred nd Sarkis Arslanian to wear te Black and Gold in the aproning ap-roning basketball season tot actuaEy gets under way in seriousness this weekend. the squad are six returning fttermen from last year's earti, and six youngsters Who je moved up from the B warn, or have shown enough suff in the early few days of practice to catch the eye of -"e coaches. jggjhig the team will be Richard (Packy) Fenn, Charles (Smiley) Denver, Norman Hanson, Han-son, Kenneth AndeTton. Ruben Broderick and Dale Womack, from the 1954 team. Up from the B squad will be Snellen Johnson who scales the 6'2" mark and looks like the man for the center spot; Larry Ross and Clayton Huber, a couple of fine looking kids. Larry is a brother of Leon Ross, member mem-ber of the class B dhatmpionship team of '53. Two other youngsters young-sters who stand 6'2" are Rulon Ru-lon Gilbert, a senior, and Randy Ran-dy Nelson, 1 a kid who not too long ago was a polio victim and is a junior. The twelfth spot will be taken care of by Ken-netfti Ken-netfti Benson, a sophomore and a brother to John, who was an all-state second team choice as a member of the champs of Utah. Coach Allred was most reluctant reluc-tant to suggest who might be his first team starters. He is very optomistic about the chances chan-ces of the Cougars to' up-end Uintah High Utes who won the district title last year, and who have virtually the same team (Continued On Back Page) Basketball. . . (Continued from page one) back in uniform this year. He is taking his charges on (their first preseason trip into Sanpete San-pete County this weekend to meet the Templers at Manti and the Bulldogs alt Moroni on Friday and Saturday nights. "Every kid on the team has a chance to be a starter, and each one will be given plenty of chances to show his wares during the next few weeks 'before 'be-fore the league opens Jan. 7th," Coach Allred said. Following is the 'team personnel, per-sonnel, showing their heights and class: Ken Anderton (5-11) Sr. Kenneth Benson (5-8) Soph. Rulben Broderick (5-9) Sr. Charles Denver (5-9) Sr. Richard Fenn (5-11) Sr. Ru-lon Gilbert (6-2) Sr. Norman Hanson (5-10) Sr. Clayton Huiber (5-8) Jr. Snellen Johnson (6-2) ' Jr. Randy Nelson (6-2) Jr. Larry Ross (5-9) Jr. Dale Womack (5-11) Sr. |