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Show Jackson, Walt Simon, Reed Steenblick, Terry Taylor and Don Denson (left to right) sightsee as they walk through the Berkeley campus towards the fieldhouse. Immediately after fall quarter finals we had the pleasure of travelling with the basketball team to San Francisco for four days to see them play Stanford and California. The games were only two of thirteen road contests the Utes will have played by the end of the season of a total of 27 games. It is a basketball axiom, particularly in the Western Athletic Conference, that road games are beasts to win. This, coupled with the fact that a team is together for an extended period of time, reveals the personality of the players. In the next two pages we wish to present what we saw. On Friday morning, December 16, 1966, twelve basketball players - Jackson, Lyndon McKay, Jeff Ockel, DeWitt Menyard, Joe English, Walt Simon, Ron Cunningham, Terry Taylor, George Theodore, Don Denson, Reed Steenblick and Scott Etnyre -, Coach Jack Gardner, his assistant Morris Buckwalter, trainer Walt DeLand and Sports Information Director Ron Fessenden and his wife flew out of Salt Lake in a moderate fog and landed at the San Francisco Airporr 90 minutes later. They were to play Stanford Saturday evening and California on Monday. Utah handled Stanford without much trouble Saturday night by a score of 100-87. Jackson had his best night of the young season, scoring 32 points. Despite their partisan feelings, there were In a United jet approximately 35,000 feet over Lake Tahoe, players and coaches bide their time before landing. In front is Scott Etnyre, the only senior on the team. Behind him Jackson talks to roommate Walt Simon while Walt DeLand (far left) compiles statistics. Seated by him are Coach Gardner (center) and Assistant Coach Jerry Pimm. In a room of the Berkeley House Hotel (above) where the team stayed Sunday and Monday, Lt. Col. Bob Smith gives his scouting report on California. A former assistant to Gardner and now head coach at the University of Hawaii, Col. King discusses in detail the moves and the weaknesses of the six or seven top California players as well as the offense and the defense of the team. Below, Col. Smith sets up the Utah players to run through California's patterns in a light workout. 25 |