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Show UTAH SQUAD HOLDS INITIAL PRACTICE First Workout Is Light; Two a Day From Now on Until Sept. 20. Oog e h So rgr e n and his new asistsnt, John Breathed, arrived In Salt LeUte late MnnJav n'ght. and the first footbaJl practice prac-tice of the year for the T 'diversity of I'lah was held yesterday afternoon on Cuinmlngs field. The praeUot was light and not rmny of the old playere turned out. but that the most strenuous kind of work 11l hegln Immediately and continue until Thanksgiving da:.- 1 evidenced by the plans Norgran set forth yesterday. Another practice will he held this afternoon, after-noon, and. beginning tomorrow, botlj forenoon fore-noon and afternoon workouts will be the bill until Instruction starts at the university univer-sity on September If, From then on the usual long grinds as of last year will ag.ln go Into effect. Wants More Life. Norgren and Breathed were at the ii. lining room shortly after noon yeater-day yeater-day sorting out the various football togs of lat ear Then a dozen new footballs nl other gridiron paraphernalia arrived The night was enough to arouae a genuine football fovgr in anyone. But Norgren's protegee did not arrive on th scene promptly nor displaying the "pep-" rlth which the frlmson ach believes a ferocious gridiron stai should be pos-Ad. pos-Ad. Only five players arrived In time to don a suit- Mark an.l Tarre Gardner, Lowell Ttomney. Al Brokmever. Happy Van Pelt, all old vaMity players, and Homer Warner, a member of the freshman fresh-man tea m last fall. Norgren stated ouletlv that the whole Crimson hunch will he treated to plenty of hard practices later on to make up for the delay Light Practice. Beginning tomorrow, open prac'lce will be held for three weeks, but after that, the roach annouiKM. no more open workouts will he given. Work yesterday waa confined chiefly to nine kicking, panning (he liall. forward passes and Instructions on how to snap the ball from renter to quarterback and then to the backfteld men. Norgren and Hrathed onductM themselves In a highly active manner, taking turns at throwing and receiving forty -yard forward for-ward pa'fes. "Pig'' Ward. Ken Teates and other members of the freshman squad of last year appeared on the field, but did not get Into suits. Today a larger number Is expected nut. McTntyre la Bt ill in California and may not be back for a week or so. No Overconfidence. Norgren does not Intend to let the team become overconfident. "The situation Is much the same as It was la-st year. The proepOCtS are not all sunshine." he said. In speaking of the chances of the university. univer-sity. Ho added that only the hardest work can make the team a winner. Breathed, the new assistant coach. Is little more than a youngster just out of school. He la of medium height, chunky and fast on hU feef . Breathed was a good football man back In Chicago and should bo ft great help to Norgren. btlt he will be even more useful next spring during the track season. He is a 220-vard 220-vard man and runs the quarter-mile also. His speed may be realized when it is known that lie gets very close to 47 seconds sec-onds in the 440-yard dash. In both his events he has won a national reputation. reputa-tion. He was -ne of ( he team which represented the I'nlveralty of Chicago at the recent national athletic meet In San Francisco. |