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Former Utah State football player and Hall of Fame inductee Jim Turner dies at 82 – Cache Valley Daily

Jim Turner, left, of the New York jets is presented with trophy as the New York Catholic Youth Organization’s most popular player, by Thomas Lambertson, 11, at New York’s Shea Stadium, Dec. 1, 1968. At right is Don Maynard, last year’s most popular Jet. Maynard receives his trophy from Kevin Rehill. At rear is Msgr. Philip J. Murphy, New York CYO director. Last year award was not presented due to the death of Cardinal Francis Spellman. (AP Photo/Harry Harris) LOGAN, Utah – Former Utah State player Jim Turner died on Saturday, June 10. He was 82. Turner, a quarterback and kicker, was a three-year letterwinner for the Aggies from 1960-62. He helped Utah State capture back-to-back Skyline Conference championships in 1960 and 1961 as those teams combined to go 18-3-1 overall, including 9-1-1 in conference play. Utah State capped those two seasons by playing in the Sun Bowl and Gotham Bowl, respectively. In the 1961 Gotham Bowl against Baylor, Turner kicked a 36-yard field goal, rushed for 17 yards on five carries and completed one pass for 10 yards. During his career with the Aggies, Turner’s teams combined for a 26-5-1 record, which are the most wins in a three-year period in

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Projecting the toughest and easiest matchups in USU’s 2023 football schedule – Cache Valley Daily

LOGAN — The full schedule for Utah State, complete with dates, TV broadcasts and kickoff times (at least most of them) is all out in the open. With that it’s time to give a first look at how the Aggies could fare against this schedule. Prognostications of the Aggies currently have them finishing the season right around .500 with most leaning toward 5-7 rather than 6-6 or 7-5. The heavy roster turnover leaves USU as a great unknown with few bold enough to predict an improvement from last year’s 6-7 team when Utah State is replacing 14 starters between offense and defense, let alone all of the backups it’s also having to replace due to portal attrition. Head Coach Blake Anderson has done his best to fill the team with talent and now he will need to prepare his team for a fairly challenging schedule. This analysis will break USU’s lineup of games into four tiers of games with the first tier being the most winnable and the fourth being the hardest to win (games are listed in chronological order within the tiers). Many of these games are ones that right now could go either way so with a push

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