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Show Outstanding pre-season showings got the Utes bids to Corvallis and the N.I.T. Utah opened the season with two outstanding performances. The Red-men showed promise of a good season to come: the 73-64 and 72-46 victories over Baylor University. The Utes looked a little spotty in the first game, but Gary Hale and Pearl Pollard shined in the scoring column. Saturday night's game showed a real improvement. The fast break and the rebounding power were excellent as the Utes unveiled a balanced attack. Utah rolled to its third consecutive win with a 71-59 victory over Los Angeles University as the coast team proved no match for the hustling Redskins. A 71-59 win over Tulsa University was win number four for the Running Redskins as Utah, with her point-scalping offense, literally ruined a defensive minded Tulsa team. If anyone were looking for proof of Utah's worth, he found it in an outstanding 65-49 victory over Stanford. Here the Utes showed they really had the goods. The Indians from Palo Alto proved a real test as this was a hard fought victory. On the next particular weekend Utah accepted another pair of challenges. The opponent this time was Washington State. The first game was close, but paid off in a 71-64 victory. In the second game the Utes really exploded to the tune of a 70-48 shellacking and our seventh consecutive win. Once again the nationally ranked Utah Redskins were invited to participate in one of the outstanding holiday tournaments. This year the Utes were invited to the Far West Classic in Corvallis, Oregon. In the opening round, the Redskins drew a formidable foe in the University of Washington. It was a great game, tight and exciting to the end; but Utah, gaining a slight lead in the later stages of the game, elected to freeze the game and clung to a two point lead. When the buzzer sounded, Utah was on top by a 64-62 score. T'ffmh h /1 fiJ "¦ 'iito' |
