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Show VINCENT (Forward) LYON (Guard) high athletic teams, played a regular forward position in the majority of the games during the year, while Couch, reputed as the best athlete ever turned out at Weber College, was used as running guard. George McCurdy, formerly of Uintah high school of Vernal, and Frank Jonas, forced their way into the lineup by consistently good playing, while Ted Jacobsen and Niel Davis, members of the state inter-scholastic champion basketball team of the L. D. S. U. in 1926, made an excellent showing in their first year of collegiate competition, and each was awarded the official insignia of participation. The collegiate season opened in Salt Lake, with Montana State engaging the Utes in a two game series, which was split. In the first game the wonderful passing attack of the victors was entirely too much for the Redskins to solve and Montana had little difficulty in handing the Crimson warriors a severe drubbing to the tune of 47 to 17. In the second game, the Utes made their wonderful comeback, and after trailing 14 to 19 at the half, the final score favored them, 35 to 22. Captain Dow again scintilated with his scoring activities, while the guarding of diminutive Ralph Goodwin was perhaps the outstanding feature of the contest. Flushed with hopes of a division championship by reason of their victory over the strong Montana State aggregation, the Redskins invaded Provo for their first showing on foreign courts. The ensuing series was hardly equaled during the remainder of the season for brilliance and closeness of play. In the first game, a contest featured by the fast passing attack of both teams, the Utah five turned up winner by the count of 42 to 39, after having trailed Coach Roberts' hoopsters by a 15 to 21 count at the half. Pete Couch and Dow, giant Utes, led the attack for the winners, with fourteen and thirteen points, respectively. ¦ In the second game of the series, the Utes again staged a comeback. At half time the Cougars were once more leading by a 15-21 score, a curious coincidence. The '.JMQTJ IIB3l*>r*:iei»i»ie!» -c leiEffCWKBieieieieieiei sssr^ [20®] |