Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-12 | Page 10 | Van Pelt will Once More Shoot Baskets

VI PELT WILL ONCE MORE SHOOT BASKETS Famous Center Returns to Norgren's Squad, Bringing Bring-ing Added Strength. Happy Van Pelt, one of the great basketball bas-ketball stars developed at the University of Utah, who was not expected to try out for the team this 3'ear, surprised everybody and brought gladness to the hearts of Captain Dick Eomney and Coach Nelson Norgren by joining the squad yesterday yes-terday afternoon. Immediately following the football season sea-son Van Pelt announced that he was through with athletics for the year, and as the days passed and he still insisted that he would not play basketball this winter the university students decided that he had made up his mind on the point and would stick to his decision. It was a hard blow to the "U" men, in view of the fact that Van Pelt is one of the best players in the entire country and was sorely needed to help defend the national championship. Consequently Van Pelt's appearance yesterday afternoon came as a complete surprise to all. No one knows just how it happened. The big center appeared in the gvm in a Tootball suit and apparently apparent-ly was merely taking a little exercise with (Continued on Following Page.) W PELT WILL OM MORE SHOOT BASKETS (Continue. From Preceding Page.) Harold Kay. The next moment he was on the basketball floor playing with Rom-ney Rom-ney and some of the other promising men against the freshman squad. No one appeared to know just how it was done. The addition of Van Pelt makes the chances of the Crimson to win another national title look about 100 per cent brighter. With Romney, Van Pelt and Carl Cutler, the big recruit from Idaho, the school has a trio of men who are the equal of any three other men on a team ainy where. Van Pelt and Romney satisfied the eastern critics in Chicago last year that they are among the very best men in the country, and local critics who have watched Cutler. are of the opinion opin-ion that he will fit right in with the same company. . Coach Norgren announced yesterday that one of the two' games with the Utah Aggies would be played on March 3 at Logan. The other game, which will take place in Salt Lake, will be scheduled later, depending on the time when the northerners wili make their trip to Provo to play the B. Y. U. Norgren has scheduled a game with the Brigham City high school for the freshman fresh-man team for next Saturday night. The infants are fast rounding into an aggregation aggre-gation which" forces the varsity men to extend themselves and will probably give any high schools in the state a hard rub.