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Show lIPJ bisobi iLlsiSSs ( 1 llii Four members l the powerful independent touch football team line up as Al Fleming (center) displays the ferocity that has Riven them an unblemished record in IM play. From left to right, Don Klman, Fleming, Jim Freston and (.extreme right) Ron Rich. With IM director Ray Rhead out of town and the touch football field covered with snow, the touch football season has lapsed into a stalemate. STUDENTS FAIL TO BACK TEAM POT SHOTS by PHOT By MARV PROTZMAN ONLY ONE REGULAR Well loyal Wildcats. How did you enjoy the football game between Ricks and Weber? All 125 of you! The football team finally triumphs over a favored foe, and the one game attendance is the poorest in the history of football at Weber. Forty-five dollars is truly an astounding sum to be taken in considering that there are 1200 students in day school alone. Television certainly must have been good that day. As Weber's public relations expert Lawrence Burton put it, "there is better attendance at Sacrament meetings here on campus than our football AN INVITATION TO SKIERS OF ALL CLASSES w i I Stop in and get acquainted with our complete range of ski equip ment . . . skis, bindings, poles, boots, clothes and accessories. Our specialty" is seeing that skiers expert, intermediate, beginner are properly, yet economically equipped in accordance with their personal requirements. Let us help you, too. Cage Aces WE PROUDLY DISPLAY THIS SIGN OF QUALITY OGDEN'S SKI HEADQUARTERS SPORTS SHOP 3059 HARRISON games." He doesn't know how right he is! In the entire series of three home games, our loyal and spirited student body and townspeople have managed to scrape up a total attendance of 1150. This astronomical figure represents about thirty percent of the expected attendance. Incidentally, the college is $1,100 behind in its football budget. A minimum of $2,200 was the expected take. Such great support boosts the boys' incentive to play their best. The Rick's bench made more noise than Weber's student-body al though Coach Nalder's side-line yelling nearly made up the difference.But anyway, the students from Weber can keep their untarnished record for poor school spirit. If it's below your dignity to yell at a game, don't! Frankly I don't blame all you Lord Fauntleroys and prissy ladies. Don't you think it's more fun to sprawl on the front-room floor and play jacks? When the basketball season rolls around, who cares if ball players from local high schools out-number Weber students at our games. When they get a good look at Weber's peppy turnout, they won't have any trouble deciding where to attend college. Small wonder that so many good athletes go out of town to school. The only attention they get around here are moans from students that the team should win. Our lack of school spirit loses more games for Weber College than any other thing. Roses to you few true Wildcats, and let's see you other students, try to help instead of gripe! Practice in aily Reed K. Swenson as advertised In LIFE With snow on the ground and frost in the air, the Weber College gymnasium once more echoes to the thump of basketballs. With 2!) players, including 4 let-termen, reporting for the initial practice, the outlook for Weber should be good this year. Coach Reed Swenson will again be the mentor for. the Wildcats, who finished fourth last year behind Ricks, Boise, NNC and College of Southern Utah. The first practice was held Monday, Oct. 2i)th, and practices have been held three times a week until now. After the first cut, which will come in the near future, practice will be held every day. Coach Swenson plans to keep any man who shows up well in preliminary practice, probably 15 or more men. This year's returning lettermen include sharp-shooting Frank Ber-rett, a last year starter, Roy Mec-ham and Ron Pace, bothsemi-regulars from last year's squad. Back after fotir years in the servcie, is Jay Brown, ahot-handed shooter who starred for Weber High and won a closet full of basketball awards in the service. The junior college circuit should be a little tighter this year. Until now, basketball players with more than two years of experience in junior college ball were still eligible. But under a new ICAC ruling no junior college can use men after their eligibility has expired. Attention all chess enthusiasts. Factorial (14 has been organized for chess-players, both pros and beginners. Everyone is invited to join, you can contact Robert De-Lange or attend the Friday afternoon meetings. CONGRATS TO . . . Allen Kartchner Waisc-n Tanner's Student of the Week Candidatcd by A. M. S Chosen by Woman's Social Clubs Reasons for Choice: v President Lamba Delta Sigma .. i Vice-president A. M. S. Ex-president of Engineers Club High Scholastic Average .- j Member of a Social Club . I We would like Allen to stop in 'at our store and select a $5.00 Sport Shirt as . his award. 1 WATS OH By LARRY TOMLINSON, Signpost Sports Editor With the unconfirmed announcement that Weber is being considered for entrance into a five-state western athletic league, athletic officials here have suddenly developed a hike warm attitude toward first rate competition. For the past two vears, head athletic director Reed K. bwenson and his staff have scheduled the best junior college teams in the nation. Now that Weber has an outside chance to compete in a dynamic new conference a move that would help rejuvenate the interest in athletics at this school Coach Swenson came forth with this statement: "If we were invited to join, I don't know whether we'd accept or not. Such a league , would be 'fast company' for We ber College. It would mean withdrawal from the Intermountain Conference and it would mean more football support than we have at the present time in Ogden." Coach Swenson's statement could be summed up in one breath. If the Ogden townspeople and the Weber student-body would support a losing team until Weber got back on its feet, he probably would not hesitate to join this conference. Judging from the poor attendance at the three home games played this year, Swenson has a good point. But this logic on his part is the only really plausible reason why Weber could not join the pro posed conference. And haven't we been playing the same teams in football for the past two years. Why the hedging then? At least if we can't beat 'em, join 'em. Here are the teams which the proposed conference would include: Compton College of Calif., Boise Junior College, Oregon Tech of Klamath Falls, Ore., Phoenix, Arizona, and the University of Nevada's new junior college at Las Vegas, and, with the sanction of college officials, Weber. If plans to form this conference materialize, it would be the outstanding junior college league in the nation bar none. And Weber, with its sputtering athletic set-up, has good possibilities to obtain membership in the league. Some conservative quarters might argue that Weber would become the dormat ot such a league. If so, wouldn't it be better to ride the fall-out of a new star than tag along behind a "hound dog?" If the analogy is somewhat hazy here, we'll elaborate. Better to be last in a good league than last in a poor one. We don't want to knock the ICAC but from Boise down the quality of teams in the Intermoun tain Conference diminishes rapid ly. 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