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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1957
Page
8
Nebraska and surrounding regions see a spring trend of realigning teams for equal competition. Smaller schools join balanced leagues to avoid heavy losses while larger programs seek tougher opponents. Western conferences grapple with travel costs and scheduling as districts reconfigure for 1958.
Wyoming starts spring football with about 79 candidates at Laramie as Bob Devaney introduces Michigan State offense concepts to a squad including 16 monogram players from the 1956 team. The challenge lies in replacing eight starters. center end and quarterback should be toughest positions. Practice runs four days weekly over five weeks ending with intra squad drills May 11.
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Sidney High plans to scratch the 880 yard run and mile medley at the 38th Western Nebraska track meet in Scottsbluff due to lack of qualified personnel and event limits. Coach Tom Jones may still enter Sidney competitors last minute as Group I faces Scottsbluff Alliance North Platte and McCook with Wyoming schools. list of Sidney entries follows including Barber Cutright and Carl Osborn in sprints and relays, and Jackson Harlan in field events.
Indiana led by Greg Bell top national broad jumper returns to Rollins Field for a dual with Missouri Tigers. Bell set a Big Ten indoor mark with 25 ft 7 in as Indiana aims for balance and strong performances. Oklahoma hosts Colorado Nebraska Arkansas quad meet with coach Frank Potts relying on Colorado’s recent 75 point indoor triump. Keith Gardner stars for Nebraska with sprint and hurdles dominance. Oklahoma prepares for spring practice windup against Alumni after a losing streak, while Colorado opens Big Seven baseball against Missouri amid weather concerns.
Rufus Trapp 55 a Chadron State football standout of the 1920s and later grid coach at Chadron State from 1929 to 1937 died in California from a heart condition. He was reared in Bruning Nebraska and later worked as area supervisor for Moorman feeds in the Los Angeles area. Burial and services will be in California. He is survived by his wife two brothers Ferdinand Trapp of Bruning Louis Trapp of York and sister Mrs Tracy Keim of Carleton Nebraska.
Charlene Anthony is named one of two new members of the University of Nebraska Yell Squad after a field of 57 candidates. She previously won a bathing beauty contest during intermission at the Starlight Dance at the agricultural college.
President Eisenhower and General Alfred Gruenther, former NATO commander, are noted as skilled bridge players. Former President Harry Truman enjoys playing poker.
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