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Show i Redskin Briefs 'IF Eager Plays Against Soviet Team graduates but would also IMe to give pro - football a try if he has the opportunity. University of Utah basketball! coach, Jack Gardner, put his 17-1 man squad through their first j days of practice with heavy emphasis em-phasis being placed on the most elementary fundamentals. Says Gardner, "If a ball club is going to win the tough games they have to be able to handle all situations. The way to make certain cer-tain they can handle these situa tions is to teach fundamentals. We'll spend a good deal more time on these elements of the game for the next week or so and then go into drills which will give us an idea of just how the boys can work as a unit." Gardner is in doubt as to just how good his 1957-53 club might be but he feels that they might develop into a top aggregation. The Utes are taller than last season sea-son but do not have the speed of the 1956-57 group. The loss of Curtice Cur-tice Jenson will be hard to fill. Several Jr. College transfers 0 season and both are good scorers. The other JayCee's are Al Mock, San Francisco and Jim Powell of l Carbon. j Veterans who could help include the Skyline Conference's leading scorer last year. Milt Kane; speed-ball speed-ball Gary Hale; big Pearl Pollard. Pol-lard. Darrell Pastrell, Dick Shores, DeLyle Condie, a freshman sensation sensa-tion in 1954, who has just returned from an L.D.S. mission, and Bill Paul. Freshmen moving up include in-clude post man Carney Crisler, Keith Ancell, Jim Brittain, Mark Rose and Ben Cutler. DeLyle Condie, Ute basketball-er, basketball-er, who has just returned from an Australian mission played two games against the Russian Olympic Olym-pic team while performing for the Mormon Yankees, a missionary mission-ary team in Australia. He scored 23 points in the first fray and 30 in the second. The Missionaries m 3 1 II I II lilt Milium in lost both contests f the Sputniks. i Lee Grosscup, Ute quarterback, not only makes headlines as a passer pas-ser but also writes them. Lee was a sportswriter in Santa Monica, California and is majoring in English Eng-lish while at Utah. He hopes to be a short story writer when he1 could add strength to the Utes and two of these boys look especially espe-cially promising. Jim Thomas, six foot-five in. from Modesto and Bill Cowan, a speedy five-foot-five-in. j Bakersfield Jr. College transfer, are top prospects. Both of these jboys were chosen as the "Player of the Year" in their leagues last The Running Redskins open this year at home against Baylor University Uni-versity and then meet Tulsa, Stanford, Stan-ford, Washington State and Wisconsin Wis-consin in the Einar Nielsen Field-house. Field-house. This is one of the most attractive at-tractive home schedules in Utah History and season tickets have been going at a record pace. |
