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Show UTAH HOOPERS i TO ENTER UPON I HAHDJRAGTICE j; Coach Norgren Lays Out v Programme of Strenuous Labor for Athletes During Dur-ing Mid-year Holidays. Much bunl work awaits the Unier-; Unier-; sity of Utuh athletes during the holiday TaVatlon. Coach Norgren has already put his bask n t ball squad through the preliminary stages and says that every mau may expeot the hardest kind of labor throughout the season. With only two of the five men who won the national championship back at school this year, the eoaeh realizes that heroic measures are necessary. More men are in the field this year "than ever before, and the qua lit v of the candidates candi-dates is much higher than in the past. I doubtless this is another reason why Norgren is bent on plenty of hard mixing. mix-ing. Only faithful work" will bring out the ?tnrH." Thirty-five men havo been out for practice. These include Captain Dick lioinney. some of last year 's second-string second-string players and an abundance of new men. tiappy Van Telt, the other regular regu-lar of last year, will join the squad Vithin a day or two. The most promising of the new men is Carl Cutler of Preston, Idaho. Cutler Cut-ler weighs more than 190 pounds, is ap speedy as any player on t lie floor, is an expert at caging the ball, is finished fin-ished in his passing and control of the bail and is a willing worker. He will probablv become one of the big stars of the institution. Xunicrons basketball teams have written to Coach Norgren requesting games during the holidaVs, but all have been refused. It will W a month at least before the university team begins tn take form, and manv of the plavers will be out of town during the holidays. holi-days. Tt is probable that after New Year 's several outside games will be played, which will be in the nature of practice contests. The basketball schedule for the season sea-son has not yet ben drawn up. It is likolv that Coaches Norgren of the "U' Watson of V. A. Cand "Roberts of th R Y. I", will get together in the near future and arrange " the programme pro-gramme ot contests. The first game will probably not be played until the latter Part of January or the first week of "February. |