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Show ATHLETICS FEATURE AT UTAiMfARSITT School Js Rated as One of the Best in Western Country. DEFEAT OF STANFORD SURPRISE OF THE YEAR Maddock and Milne Are Developing Devel-oping Much Material Under Obstacles. If thero has over been a 113" doubt iu tho minds of lovers of amateur sport that tho University of Utah is on the athlotic map for good, that idea has been dispelled once and for all 1by the performance of Utah's teams during the past year. Athletics have come to stay. At; tho beginning of the season six of Iho cloven men who had gained a decisive viclorv over the Golden miners, who the 3'cnr before were awarded tho title of champions of tho Centennial state, wcro gone, fn their stead it was necessar3 to develop entirely new men. To make matters worse, the eligibilitv' authorities had a spasm of conscience prickings and framed up a sot of rules that put at least thrco men. who Would havo ordinarily been allowed to -play, on the side lines. The rules wfo'ru not so bad in themselves but they were mado retroactive and in that way did considerable injustice. Ifore was a crisis and it was up to Maddock and the faithful ones to meet it. Maii3' said that Utalrs sun had set as far as football famo was con: cruod, and eveu tho most, optimistic wcro staggered at tho actious of the eligibility committee. However, they went to work. After barely thrco weeks of pructico the team went to Colorado, whero five of the men pl.ayed their first big gnmc and one pla'cd the first gamo that ho had ever been in. Tho Denver champion? won with tho frcorc 17 to Ji), tho winning score being mado on a rather questionable question-able play within a few seconds of the call of time. A week later Utah lost to Colorado College through the remarkable remark-able kicking of the Coloradoans' place kicker. Maddock s men carried the ball three times as far as their opponents but thrco place kicks from the forlj'-live-yard line proved their undoing. Boulder Is Confident. Meantime the men woro putting in strenuous da's in preparation for the contest with 'their oldtimc rivals. Boulder, Boul-der, boulder came fwentv-two strong, bent on administering the greatest defeat de-feat in Utah's football history. How the gamo was won, how the spirit of the Utah boys carried them to a well-earned victory over their confident foe, is recorded re-corded in the pages of history. This was tho crowning victory, and it more than mado up for the past defeats of tho season. What would havo happened had the field .been dr when Utah lined up with Idaho 011 Thanksgiving dirv is hard to sa3: in fact no one can over make anything any-thing but a guess tis to the outcome under favorable phrnng conditions, l.o.viil L'tahns will always think that Idaho would havo been outclassed entirely. en-tirely. True. Utah did not win the lloeki mountain championship, but with tho 1 single exception of Denver university j she has as good a claim as .1113- one in J the count iy. Ono thing, however, was i j demonstrated, that 110 matter how dark I the outlook at the beginning of the sea-I sea-I son, Utah has the ability to turn out teams that demand tho rospect of the best in her class, and. moreover, that her clas3 includes anything in the intcr-utounlain intcr-utounlain region. Utah's rise lo her present position in the first rank has boon nothing short of remarkable. It is not many years ngo that the Salt Lake high school admiu-Ulerod admiu-Ulerod ycarh defeats, oftcu running up scores as high as fort' and liftj against tho wearers of the red aud white. A few years later when intercollegiate contests were first arraugod Utah assumed as-sumed a position about on a par with that nt present occupied b3' some of our neighboring state universities at the present time. Then eanio Holmes and Maddock aud athletics took a shoot upward. up-ward. Defeat Stanford. Utah athletes have 0110 feat to their credit of which they have full right to bo proud. This is i.lie victory over the Stanford track team last: spring. Tho Stanford men had beaten everything on tho Pacific coast and were on their wa- to try out for tho Olv'iunic games at Chicago. Here the.v made nn cx-coptionalh- good showing and a number num-ber of their men were selected over all iho stars of the big nine and other central cen-tral states to enter tho finals iu 'ow York. Stunford hail a good team but. I hey were not good enough lo beat out. (ho ''Mormons." The mile and Iho quarter-mile were won by I7 tali boys in competition with sonm ot tho best men in the business. In tho 220 dash Utah took both places with apparent ease and tho relay was won in a walk'. It is quite probable that a. meet will bo arranged ar-ranged ne.t 3-car with the bo3's from tho coast so that tho3' m.ny "havo a chance to redeem themselves with their entire team. The only line on the strength of the Colorado track team la3t spring, is the dofeat of the Houldcr track artists by the Stanford men threo days after the meet here. Utah .-journeyed to IJoul-dor IJoul-dor for a meet which never took placo becuuae of u dispute over tho eligibility eligibil-ity of Utah's crack sprinter Itrinton. No ihjectiou was made b' tho authorities author-ities iu Colorado until tho'runners were lined up at the tape, even Though thc3' woio aware nil along that it was the intention of Maddock to run the num. Maddock wouldn't stand for such dictation dic-tation and the result was that the meet was never pullod of!'. Thero seems to be no question, nowover, but that Utah would have won tho meet with very litllo effort. Utah's strength docs not. 15c so much iu tho fact thnt sho has 11 few stars but is due, rather to tho proseuco of one or two 111011 who can do consistent work in a single event. And at the same time there aro several runners in tho squad who can show thoir heels to soino of the best in this country. Last year baseball proved vcr3' sue- ccssful among-the colleges of the state. Thero were live teani3 in the league and BBV the games brought out sonic good base- BBB ball as well as proving money uiakGra BB from a financial standpoint. Tho chain-. BftBJ pinnship was never decided but the IBBB "U'' team was tied for first place when IBftB the scries blew up. BBB Coach K. .1. Milne assumed tho.poM- BBB tion of associate coach at tho beginning BB of tho last school .year, and his ability BBI as a basketball coach has already' made BB itself manifest. Tho only game played BBI thus far was very encouraging and tho BBB showing made, argues well for tho' fu- BBB lure. There is a plentiful supply ut Bl good material at bund and what may BBB happen beforo the. present season' is BBJ Milne is also in chargo of tho men's BBB gymnasium work and bo puts two or BBB three large classes through their paces BBB dailv. This is iho kind of work thnt BBB develops tho whole student bod' rather BBB than :t few picked athletes, and it is BBB becoming quite a feature in university BftBJ athletics. Tho latest innovation is the work in BBB wrestling, which has been introduced by tho notion of the Utah athlotic BB coaches and which is lo bo made a feat tiro of winter sport to go along BBB with basketball. Work along theso lines BBB hu:i been going on at the universit- ever BKBJ since school opened. jH Tho prospects for next 'car aro not as BBB bright as they might be, especially in BB football. Monahan, Cohvill, Walker, BBB Snow. Gardner and Brown, all gradu- BBJ ate, and it is likely that several of the other men will not be iu the gamo again. BBB It; is possible that ono or two of rhesu BBB men will cuino back for post-gniduuto jH work ami pkiv some football as an in- BBJ cident. The "baseball team this spring BBB has fairly promising prospects,, despita- mmm the fact that a number of tho old play- ers graduated Inst .year. Track looks BBB better Hlill, with a iiui.iorit' of the old iH men back in line aud a good bunch of BBB now material iu sight. |