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Show ! Huskies, All life Team, Wins Tills In Indian Tourney The Fort Duchesne Huskies defeated de-feated the Fort Washakie, Wyoming Wy-oming basketball team to capture the Western All-Indian championship champion-ship basketball tournament by a score of 47 to 46 at the Alterra gym Saturday' night. A large crowd, half standing and half sitting, sit-ting, saw their own Huskies, who were representing the Ute Indian Tribe in the tournament, ' steal the crown from the Wyoming team in the last 40 seconds of the game, when Henry Cuch was fouled by one of the Cowboys from Wyoming Wyom-ing and made ,one of the two free throws that he was granted, to make the score 47 to 46. , David Fourcloud led the Huskie scoring with 28 points in one of the best games that the Huskies had played this year. Little Woody Harris, one of the smallest boys on the floor, took complete charge of the Cowboys' backboard and j kept the Huskies in the game most of the first half with a number num-ber of long shots. It was Darwin St. Clair who took the scoring honors for the Wyoming team with 15 points. The Wyoming team was one of the smoothest operating teams seen in the Basin in a long time. The crowd supported the Huskies all the way, for which the Huskies were very thankful. On Friday night the Fort Washakie team defeated de-feated the Whiterocks Road Kings by a score of 70 to 31 in the first round of the tournament. This was the first time that an all Indian basketball tournament has ever been held on this reservation. reser-vation. ' |