Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-02 | Page 10 | Basketball Team That Claims to Have Won Salt Lake League Series

Basketball Team That Claims to Have Won Salt Lake League Series i ' .sC ':y''- ' . .V..' . m " ' 11 ''' "'" " "" L-'tx" """ """"'"'"'' ' n From Loft to Eight Bennion, Coach; Briggs, Center; Ashton. Guard; Hamilton. Forward: Sutherland, Guard; Hampton, Forward; Fitzpatrick, Guard; Hurlburt, Guard; Midgley, Managor. With tho loss of only ono game scored against them the. University freshmen basketball team completed its schedule of games of the Salt Lake league, standing stand-ing with the highest percentage, of any team in tho league and heneo Ik declared winner. Being of college grado the freshmen fresh-men could not join the high school division. di-vision. Coach Fred Bonnlon has been extremely ex-tremely successful In basketball this year, having two teams in tho county league, iho "props" and the freshmen, as well as. tho main varsity team. The freshmen have played strong all season, but wcro defeated early In the season by tho high school. One game was forfeited by the fiesh-men fiesh-men to the Bountiful' hich school, hut as this team is so far down in the list of percentage It is likely that the g.ime will he regarded as if it hud never been scheduled. That, is Coach Bouillon's opinion, but a Bountiful partisan takes a different view of the matter. He says: 'Although the freshmen team was defeated de-feated but one game during the schedule, it being by tho Kail Lako High school, the team has forfeited ono game to the Bountiful High school team, whleh was to have beon played Tuesday. February 21. but only one frcshnmn put in an appearance, ap-pearance, ho being Hamilton the freshman fresh-man center "The game. tas not ployed, but it stands as a forfeit to Hie Bountiful team, which gives the farmci-s two games, thereby placing that te;un in next to last position posi-tion in the percentage column rather than lied for last with Granite High school. The .Salt Lake High school ten in lost two games in the schedule and with this forfeit standing against the freshmen, fresh-men, (he two teams are tied for llrsl place with Son per cent each. "Coach Bonnlon when asked concerning concern-ing the game, stated that if the Bountiful Bounti-ful team objected, that the freshmen team would play theni any tlmo lo settle matters, but as the gamo was not played It nevertheless stands as a forfeiture and , cannot he played. The freshmen team would have easily won the game, and In that, event the team from Iho hill would have had the high percentage of atand-ing." atand-ing." By havlnc a freshmen basketball team this year Coach Fred Bennion thinks ho has solved the problem of getting a good line of basketball men In tho big team next year. Owing to the one year athletic ath-letic rule In vogue at the east bench institution, in-stitution, no freshmen are allowed lo represent the varsity, but with this bunch of men from which to pick his big team next year. Bennion Is planning on the strongest haskolball team tho university has ever had: