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Show 1"T. FITZPATKSGEI RESIGNS AS UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ! Crimson Mentor to Finish 1 922-23 Season and Quit; Successor Is Uncertain Unsatisfactory Working Agreement Is Cause of Fitzpatrick's Resignation; Turbulent Condition Con-dition at "U" Is Not a New Development; Alumni Work Against Coach T.M. FITZPATRICK will not coaeh the. University of Utah athletic team next year. He tendered his resignation to President Georgn Thomas vm-terday vm-terday afternoon, following a clash with the school anthorities re-ga re-ga nling athletic polieies at the university. Hi. resignation, which will not bcrom efrei-llve until efter -"- iiio year !922-:s, will not affect the rnanrea of the 1 nfverallr df I'fah football team In the rare for the Rocky i mountain conference banner. ttIRHI. At.RKKMKXT fll. MKO. In a letter to I'repiiienf Thomm vea- ned lhat the working areemnt ar the tinlveraity wn ti naat iaf aofory and waa not conducive to- firoreaa. He further fur-ther n titled that he hart Intention! of enterina; hualnt-ra net year. The turbulent condiilona relative to . tinlveraity athletic In not a new rle. velonment. I.aat yrr 'a.-h Kltapat-rick Kltapat-rick threatened to reaiirn. due to tba rnor working agreement. hut waa hroucht bark thm f.u w),b a one-veer contract. Kltrpatrlck. while putting up a aIM front, waa amartlnx under the rebuke, which waa considered only a temporary agreement to aea If he cotrw make a;ood thia aeaon I The cauae of the turbulent ronrll-i ronrll-i tiona for the pant two veara on the i rlmaon campua haa been due partly I to 4'oach ritxpatrick'e Inahilltv to unite the warrln factlona of unlver. Hy alumni and partly le.-Uae a certain cer-tain rup haa been working paanive-ly paanive-ly to remove him n coach at the unlveraity. lX.tNOK I ( KRT4IW, T.Jlnnr!rll."B realisation to CrrJ i,,:7 Thomaa at thia early date. rii,..trl.h aa il tt waa done In order tn allow the Inat it ut ion to be on the ivuko,;L for ..n'w co"',h n. Who that will be la uncertain. Iur-!" Iur-!" Ih l"t Mum, aeverai appltca- tlona were received from men la the Kaat, but none appeared eallnfactory to local auiborltit-a. In aome aeotlonn It in thought lhat Major K. A. Trlnce, advlaory roach, would be elevated to head coach neat acaauu but. Miim ia Uuoxohabl Aia e i'rm e holda a hih poaitln In the l ulled Htatea army and ia subject to tranafer at any time. The realRnatinn will not affect th ('rlmaon a t-hancee In the ftocky mountain moun-tain conference race. Iaet nia;ht Klta aid- am aoina to. wind up tnv coafhlna: career at t'tah In a hlaae of iriory. We must win the name aKfnt ItouMer on Katurdav. 1 am ffoina; to le my beat efforts to that.' rtTX RKt tlRD, When 'oarh Klta patrlrk handa In the contract In the eprine; hp will . have completed rive and one-half year a aa Otmeon roach. Dtirina; that period pe-riod hie teama have been enccenaful. In football he haa piloted one eleven to a tie for the Hocky mountain conference con-ference rhampionahip. one into fourtn place, one In aemnd place, and proa' perls thla yerr of a rhampionahip. In baaketball he haa been even more urreeaful. He haa taken two Trim-aon Trim-aon teama to the world title Ber t a, once at loe Anvelea and once at Atlanta. At-lanta. Four teama have won the ntHtu rhampionahip eince hie advent In I'M?. In baaehall and trark he haa had varylna dfrreea of eurcene. Kaat yr-.r and the two years previoua he rdh the Bfate track title, and In 1920 lied for the baaeball banner, and In l'Jit won the banner. |