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Show f "V t . n "I'm f"f it-r?i 1 ? If. C ; Sports Here and There Hy Al Ablftt Utah lost one of her grandest sportsmen, and I don't mean .sports, when Curtis J. Butts was cut down by the Grim Reaper Saturday following an automobile automo-bile accident in Wyoming. He, along with P, C- Jensen, L. A. Nink an Joseph Barney, were on their way to Denver to take part in a howling tournament when their car, driven by Mr. Jensen, hit an icy spot and turned over after hitting a cement culvert Curtis was the only fatality. The others all received injuries of a leaner degree. All of the men are well-known in Bingham, having howled at the Gemmell club alleys a number of times. Curt, as everyone called Butts, was one of the finest bowlers in the west, and aside from his ability as a bowler he will be remembered as a gentleman. He was generous in giving as much attention to a beginner as an expert ex-pert and 1 guess at one time or another every bowler of any note in Utah has gone to Curt to havp him help iron out his Raine. To him oes the, credit for putting bowling on the high plane that it now enjoys in Utah. All of those who knew him will be better off for having had the privilege. Two of our Bingham high school players mad the all state B team: Frank Nelson at end and Klmmy Goff at halfback. half-back. And rightly so; Nelson . at end had no equal in the state, either In A or B division. He was not only a great player mechanically, but he was an inspirational leader and as captain he mad very few mis-lakes. I am to being right: Texas Ag-gio.s Ag-gio.s and Stanford in the Rose bowl and Tennessee and Boston college in the Sugar bowl. My guess is Nebraska will wind up in the Orange bowl in Miami against. Mississippi State. At this time of year everybody is picking all American teams-i teams-i It looks rather foolish to think one could pick eleven men and say they are the best at their positions. Nevertheless they try it. Now everyone has what they (all their official all Americans. But 1 think that a player who can rate one of the following teams comes pretty close to heme all American: Colliers, United Press and Associated Press. So I am going to take a guess on some of the men who will make those teams. My opinion is based solely 'nil keeping dose tab on the players through the newspapers news-papers and the radio. So it will be something to see how many the Bingham Bulletin can pick. At end position I have only one man: Rankin of Purdue. True this fellow hasn't been on an outstanding team, but he has starred in every game his team has played. Besides their regular regu-lar Big Nine games they played Fordham, one of the best in the country. A big fellow, 195 pounds, over six feet tall, he can do everything an end is supposed suppos-ed to do. A great pass catcher, a fast man going clown under punts, and a deadly down field blocker. Frutig of Michigan is another great end- He may make it. At the tackles my choice is Oclson of Minnesota and Drahos of Cornell. Odson is an outstanding man on a team that boasts a great line. He is 235 pounds and stands six feet four tall and from all accounts must move like a cat. In the Michigan game he was sent in when Harmon and company com-pany had the ball on the five-yard five-yard line and he stopped that Wolverine charge like he was a cement wall. Drahos of Cornell was all American Am-erican last year and the experts say he is as good if not better this year- 212 pounds and ' six feet two inches tall, he would make a swell mate for Odson. i At the guards I will put Marshall Mar-shall Foch Robnett of Texas Aggies and Bob Suffridge of Tennessee. Both of these boys are over two hundred pounds and are fust enough to pull out of the line and run inter- , 1 ference on offense. On defense the opposition just doesn't run plays their way. At center Mucha of Washington Washing-ton U. Teams that have played against him say he just doesn't j have any equal backing up the line. On offense he hasn't made i ( a bad pass in two years and has -always opened holes where ord- '. ored. I i ; j In the baekfield it will probably prob-ably be Albert of Stanford at quarterback. Harmon of Michigan Michi-gan and Reagan of Penn at the halt's, and Kimurough of Texas ; aggies in the fullback slot ! i My choitv would be Franck of j Minn, in place of Reagan, but i I'm just guessing as to who will 1 te chosen on those three teams- ; I! will be tun for the readers to' see how wrong a small time re- ; potter will be. I like Ci'iin over Savold Fri- j day niyht, but lie be.-a be care-ful care-ful 1 have seen Savold and he ; can hit. But it Conn is the nifty claimed he will win on point.-;. I Be seein-1 veil, Al.. I I Goff was truly an iron man, f laying in every game and a lard runner, good blocker and tower of strength on defense. Albino Lopez, the watch charm fcuard that I have touted all year, made the second team. The boys that were rated over him out weighed him by 20 pounds. This week, with the exception of a few scattered games and of course the bowl games, will wind up 1940 football. What a season it has been! The so-called f'xperts have taken a beating they will long remember. Who would have said that Stanford, with practically the Siime team didn't win a conference confer-ence game last year, would change coaches and then come on to win 'very game they have played up to date'.' (With only one more on the schedule against California IJ. Saturday, the odds are two-,ind-a-half to one that they win that, and nvirch into the Rose bowl ) That little known Boston rolL'tie and Georgetown would te ranked in the nation s !'p ten tennis? That Iow a would beat j Ni;tre Dame and that Ohio State picked to win the Big Nine, wotdd finish fourth? Who would have said that Dartmouth, after losing four straight and not to ytronti teams either, would come j along' and beat Cornell, with a 1 ti-am that was ranked as the i ' number one team of the country? T;ie answer is nobody, and that i th - reason that football games ! fill th? stadium.) all over these I lnited States. I This SaU-tvby in I'hil idehvii tSe teuins from our two eivat ,s: rvice .ii hooL, the Army at West Point and the Navy at Anapolis, j i-et in their traditional footlu!! i iame. The Army this year has been woefully weak, rdivmg only on-ly otw game when they hu.-l.ed like a good (ootbjJI team, thai vas aain:'.t Nona- iK.me. On the other hand, the ivy j ; til ted out like a house afire, but in their Lit U w kjuuw--; t u- j ! avrn't looked s hot. B;,t iw.;t j performances don't mean a thim- ' m this game. I like Nay. I On Thursday down Trx-is . way the arai T'xs Aiio; "&d to Uni the ilnx snd win the conference chamuion&hip -iw veis in a row. Thc-y play , lho University of Texas, a ! team the haven't hntan on ; ' their cvn field since 1922. With ! Jack Kimbrough rearing bo- j hind that great line, the pick was Texas Aggies and the 7-0 j upset had all the experts j wrong. a Here is my pick for the two big bowl games, the Rose bowl in Pasadena and the Sugar bowl .ia New Orleans; see how near |