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Show UKfVERStTY WINS I rooyuiii I Defeats Soldiers on. Cumnimgs Field in Presence of Small Crowd. GAREY AND DIXON ARE " H STARS ON GLIDIRON H Students Are Shown Up in Tack-ling; Tack-ling; NoIIock Retires : Broken Collarbone. The University of Utah 'defeated ths Fort Douglas, team by a score of -11 to-X) on Curnmlhgs field Saturday' afterrioflh in the presence of about: slxVhtfndfott- people. The contest was a poor 'Qxhlbl- tlon of modern football, and the poor showing made by the university stuclcntH was a surprise to all football fanr. Whether the absence of Captain "Da"d" Convlll upaet the team or whether- 'they did not care much, there certainly was IH something -wrong in team work. Tho Fort boys, on the other hand, put up a ll pretty good game considering the fact that the team Is made up of men who 1 havo been out of the game for some time. Tho soldiers played straight foot- ball for the most part, but toward tho end of tho contest they made use of a I short kick and tho forward pass. Tho army men showed up the students. In ! tackling, Carey and. Dixon being thc.stars of the game. Quarterback Garey got his I plays off well and was especially good In lH tho direction of his men. IH Held for Downs. The 'varsity kicked off and soon gained possession of the ball, only to loose it by failure to gain their yards. After considerable scrimmage. Utah got tho ball H again and D. Richardson failed at an attempted place kick. A sorles . of pen- aitles sent the ball back to Utah's thirty- yard line. Here the 'varsity showed a Hash of speed and with a pretty forward pass to Grant followed by another-to D. Richardson got the ball -within, strik-i strik-i lug distance of the army goal. XI. Rich- ani son took the ball over for a touch-I touch-I down, but his brother missed a difficult goal. Score. 5 to 0. ... The soldiers kicked off and -after a couplo of uncompleted forward passes by HBh the "U" aggregation the army boys got a fair catch on Utah's thirty-yard . lino.. An attempt at goal from placement failed and the soldiers' only good chance to score was lost. The half closed witli the bull in the center in the school boys' possession. HBb Nollock Breaks Collarbone. Shortly after the opening of the second half Griffith was sent in to replace Xol- lock, whose collarbone was broken dur- ing a fierce tackle. A 'varsity forward went wrong, resulting In a touchback, and the soldiers kicked out. II. Rlchardso.u I got the ball and made a remarkable fifty- yard run through the entlro soldier loam. This was followed five minutes later bv a thirty-five-yard gain to a touchdown by Monahan, who handily got tho ball after a soldier had blocked a "U" forward pass. D. Richardson kicked tho goal, making the score 11 to 0. Tho soldiers then started a rally and gained considerable V I ground on forward passes and quarter- back kicks, but at no tlmo got within thirty yards of their opponents' goal line. Just before the call or tlmo H. Richard- son retired with a bad leg, C. Houstou taking his place. Tho line-up: U. of U. Fort Douglas. Monahan I.e Johnson Homo I.t Brady Snow l.g Hefner Gardner c Lockhart V S. Olsen r.g. i Howard T. Olsen r.t Huddlesoii Mills r.c :Dlxon HB D. Richardson l.h.b Cercghino Walker r.h.b Nollock 21. Richardson f.b Mulchany Twenty-fivc-minutc halves. Officials Bassett, referee; Brown, umpire; Slnton, head linesman. |