Show utes invade south america international attention will be focused on the university of utah basket basketball tall team in early november when the redskins red skins fly to douht america to play 10 ganies games against brazilian teams as part of a two week tour the utahna jaunt marks maiks the first time in history that a college team from froin the united states has invaded the court conscious land of coffee and samba in 19 1938 two tv 0 o A A TT T T allstar all star teams played in south america but college aggregations have never before been invited sponsored by the floresto floresta sports the 12 man team will leave here oct 30 at 3 pm laying over in new york city where they will work out they will arrive in sao paulo brazil at 10 a ra on nov 2 invitations also have been re cleved by head coach vadal peterson to play in argentina but the wily mentor has been forced to decline in order to get the team members back to their studies as soon as possible id like nothing better than to tackle all the south american teams we could vadal said but we have arranged the longest schedule in our history and have a tough conference race ahead of us I 1 just cant take a chance on the scholastic eligibility of the boys dr paulo eduardo president of moresta floresta began negotiations with university officials last summer he indicated that utah has been chosen because of its basketball record of past years and for its outstanding reputation for good sportsmanship also taken into consideration was the location of the university in the major center of the church of jesus christ of latter nay day saints missionaries for the church have been credited with introducing and developing basketball in south america it now ranks next to soccer as the national game of brazil argentina and chile argentina almost upset the united states olympic entrant in 1948 while brazil placed third in international hoop contests in london dr has worked out many m any of the details with rulon S howells president of the brazilian mission mission of the 1 L D S Cli church |