Show 4 I J t OLD KING WINTER GAME 1 Utah and Idaho No Wo Match for Him in iii Big Football I Struggle NEITHER TEAM MADE SCORE ELEMENTS AGAINST TEAMS AND PLAYING IS IMPOSSIBLE t BY W VV D 0 RISHEL 4 OM Old Winter Inter with w hi hb hiM two feet fett of crIsp and brittle l a Wg bib ripe lemon kmon to the and Idaho football I In th the great wt Thanksgiving same game I of football yesterday aft The Th Ii poor mortals morth who are re wt wise e i k kr r 1 football lore may sneak pek of or the contest 9 as 1111 s a n tie gam In which neither I Utah tab nor J w i Idaho after one hours houY light with 1 d j the elements wan wai able to score core but It was II not a n struggle f between and r fj Idaho rather WM wa it a battle I j of two athletic teams iJ l against conditions which defied human 1 brain br n and brawn A gridiron of pC ng n HMO sno baffled lh the tactics of off f and anel i rendered fast 4 i flying lIln bat bark bak k fir feI a sut nr prostrated i i tIe nIt ura hll havy lr I y s of It power H w r I Iwas It ph was Ihl l 1 and aad t 1 of or man ngi i the tho and the i f latter won th fi ht ill II IIi j I Seldom In the is toi of football never nver neverin i 1 in rn the t tt to local memory 01 of th the l pot sport have han I 1 I the on to of Or If H I field il so over or orI I it the HII contestants lont Nci all tah or Idaho Jaho nun in 11 able to show j 1 4 1 I their mar m r Wt tat they the v re ca ea capable eaI ft I I I pable rable of dons After the game was as ov 0 of Itah jl Id l the varsity va It f l I Ilave won WI 0 n It game gam am with a dry Wi I field for fir Idaho were loud lou In Int t their claims elain that the Moscow team would I I c 1 have slaughtered m muI mn n Nei XI Neither XIi i ther haw hav any cause for their claims As 08 AsIt j d It actually happened hap there was Wit no sem semMi semi i I I I Mi ce cc of football played d The exhibition 1 I yesterday 1 be bt dismissed as a far as a aI I I comparing Idaho and Utah on the grid gridIron gridI t I Iron Both teems teams have many man puzzling fh plays We e h have hate seen Ien Itah l tah knew knewt gj i i they the have hayl and an dare are willing to concede the th thIam thet t same name for Idaho but as far as saying one t Wi en ean had the best b t of the other in yes yesterday lS 11 s game it hould be J d dI I I h t tj tI without argument j j Could Not Score in Week f I Idaho and t tah could have on In onI I for or a week w ek under the conditions yester yeste I I I r and an 1 neither team would have hae scored lC Ii I barring ng a fluke When hen on ou stops to con conI conw I w cider sider the facts of the game which show I Iii that once In the thc full hours pla pIa play Idaho Ui made her yards and anti did not once ome I gain fain the required distance in three thre e down J Ji I barring harrin of nt course the th recovered fum fumbles urn 1 1 bles then some Id a of or the utter hope hopelessness t i of ot advancing the ball call cal be he ben I I i seen een n When hen a punt was wasI I t I just as liable to slip off oft the Ule Kicking toe i t to some unknown angle as ns It was nas to pass pans passover over the tile line of scrimmage the inre unreliability I U liability of the Ule kirk is evident And nd the d 1 1 cause of or this was not the tho opposing team I 11 III l but a heavy hea and sluggish field of ot snow I r and a frozen oval oal of 1 f pigskin I III 1 After Arter each down the center used his J 1 hands ha digging a hole in the snow now to tomake tomake make room to pass the ball Then if a ap ar r p T punt had bad been ordered the back field r I I cleared cl roo away n a place for the kicker and andt 4 t f C near the close Ioe of ot the Ule game shovels were wre I tl brought In from the side lines to help heip clear Il ei ar a II place pla e for the tile man mun with the kick kicking I 1 t ing in toe And here Idaho took every er ad advantage adi i vantage antage of the conditions as they the were I j j and although It greatly delayed delat the game am amI I I 1 f I j 1 it helped l them keep the ball in territory a greater part of the time in inthe InI Inthe I t I the th second half halt soon got tired of I i these shoveling tactics accepted the ball balli I I p i as ns it came cam and ant many man a fluke nuke kick wasI was I recorded against t them themi j i ij i tE Lost Opportunity ti 1 Once during the game and but once It ItI j I I looked bad for or Itah This was within l r J one on minute of ot final time Idaho had ja f t i the ball on l line square squarely i it ly w In front of the goal posts post The sho 1 ul Is were we brought in from the side line I 11 1 and a part of the ground uncovered for a t 1 1 place kick etah anxiously awaited the i j try and gave a II great sigh of relief ItS as s the th f f ball slipped ort oft Smalls Small toe tott D Richard Richardson RichardI I son lion nailed It and then fumbled an Idaho I I t man getting it on nabs Itah s 1 I line With fifteen seconds of ot play the 1 shoveling brigade again got to work and ai It Jt seemed seem Ill certain the score would end in inI 1 I favor laor by a field goal But Utah I J I J i IL was equal to the occasion this time and andI 1 I i Ii V I tore the Idaho Idalo line to pieces a I dozen men blocking the kick as the whistle 1 blew It was as fourth attempt at goal kicking from the field and each time timet t th the ball slipped from Smalls toe I l i In the first flut halt half successful I kickoff landing the ball baU on ten yard line greatly helped the northern i school For a II full thirty minutes the ball baU paused back and forth but at the end of or ori i the first half Utah ruh had gradually worked I the oval Oal well into Idaho territory 1 In the second halt half only kickoff I Y the ball slipped from toe and I Idaho downed It In ii II the center cent r of the field For the full half halt the tho th ball was waS worked back baek and forth In territory thu tho hard luck at the opening of the half haIt never being overcome Neither goal was ever In danger from a touchdown Utah had one touchback the ball going over her goal line on a returned kick Devoid of Sensational Plays The game ame was entirely devoid of sensa sensational sensational plays plas Such a thing as a brilliant run nm was impossible under tinder the conditions of ot the field Once Thornton the th Idaho sprinter printer secured the ball ban after a dozen ozen fumbles in which the members of ot both teams repeatedly lost and recovered the ball for or a run He had a clear dear clearfield field nel 1 and when Idaho saw raw Fa their famous sprinter plodding plo Uns through the snow her rooters called rolled for a touchdown Bonnie Grant however pulled him down own from rom behind actually actual outrunning him Once again n in the game Johnson got ot around his right rl ht end for tor fifteen fIrt n yards This was WIlS the only time either team made the yards ards during the game With Ith a loss on the first i t down Convil Convill on one occasion plunged through the line for ten yards ards This was best gain gainIn In the game on straight football Famous Sweep Fails The Tue famous Idaho sweep failed aIle A half dozen ozen times it was tried in the first halt half and then thee given gen up for the rest of ot the th fh game But because bC au it ft failed aired fam d it cannot b Ix condemned It fatted failed and so ao did every other play pIa tried by either ither team Utah used 1 the same formation and used it ef rt effectively f against Boulder two weeks ago Maddock has a well established defense for the play but did not need n d to use It as the snow did the work woric The forward pass was also unreliable Only once during the game was It worked with success when Monahan got gos away with twenty yards ards Utah tried it a couple of or times more and was penalized as the receiver could not travel travet fast tast enough to get near the passed ball Idaho tried It once or twice and then like Utah gave gue it up End runs were impossible The Themen Themen Themen men could not get started and the Inter Inte Interference i terence ference could not form torm In time to help the runner I Kicking was the only practical way wa of ot advancing the ball and the game was real rel really relly ly t a kicking duel between Convill and Small The latter tatter carried carded oft off of the honors of the day because he was more careful and took his time Small was content to get the ball over oyer the line of scrimmage with a fair t lr chance of a short gain while Consul Convill tried to kick the cover off oft the ball When Wn en Dad did get a punt away awa it sailed through the air for a big distance ce but fully full of or his tries resulted in a Il slip with the ball baU rolling off oft to one side shi or a short kick Into the line of scrim scrimmage scrimmage scrimmage mage Many and Costly Fumbles Fumbles were many man and costly and Idaho ld had by Jar tar the better luck In re 11 recovering recovering covering the ball bail Idaho first resorted to letting the ball hit the ground on a punt and then picking It up or falling on it Utah tried to catch the punts but near the end of or the game adopted suc successful successful successful tactics of ot allowing thE ball bait to bUT bur bury Itself in the snow and then tailing falling on it Itt Penalties were not many man but a penalty esterday yesterday t meant the loss loas of or yards ards that were hard haril to get back Utah suffered most once onre being penalized yards ards half the distance to her hel own goal oat from the mark for tor rough playing pla Ing One of ot the Idaho players smashed Bill Home Bill Bm smashed back and the referee saw Bill in the act Home was waa W J put out of the game and the Idaho man escaped because it is not wrong to slug in football if It the officials do not see se you rou In the pal half an another another another other Idaho player deliberately slugged sl H Richardson who instead of hitting back yelled to the officials It was 1 S bot seen and Idaho escaped a u similar penalty al at though the stands yelled to put hIm out of or the game More lloro slugging took place in the game titan than any that has been played pla ed in Utah for tor some time The lineup Utah I tah L Idaho Monahan L E Savidge L T Elton L I G Pauls Gardner C Jewell S Oleson R H G r V Y Oleson Rr RT Smith Houston R B E Armstrong Grant J Q B Small D Richardson Richardo L 1 H IL HB B Johnson Johnsoa H Richardson R It H B j Lundstrom Convill F B Thornton Referee Sanichi umpire Brown head I linesman Stein field judge Bassett time of ot halves hales 33 35 minutes |