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LAS VEGAS — Thursday brought another day for BYU and Utah to practice for Saturday's upcoming Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl. But it also came with a pair of chances to get out into the community and serve.

The Utes and Cougars split into two mixed groups to handle a pair of projects involving southern Nevada-based charity groups. One group that included injured BYU quarterback Taysom Hill went to Las Vegas' Opportunity Village, which provides work opportunities for adults with disabilities in the area.

The other group headed to C.P. Squires Elementary School in North Las Vegas, where the players helped provide 900 disadvantaged children with new shoes, socks and other supplies in partnership with the Goodie Two Shows Foundation. The players helped size each child, then distributed a new pair of shoes and holiday toys from the foundation's semitruck.

The service projects were in connection with MRG Marketing & Management Inc., Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers and the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl.

BYU and Utah kick off Saturday at 12:30 p.m. PST at Sam Boyd Stadium.

Click the photos below for a slide show from Deseret News photographer Scott G Winterton, and click the video above for video highlights from the morning by KSL TV photographer Ben Schroeder.

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