Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-14 | Page 10 | Grid Work Starts on 'U' Field Today

GBIO WORKSTAHTS" 01 T FIELD TODAY Norgren Hopes to Mold Championship Team From Vets and Freshies. University of Utah athletes will hold their first football prat-tire of the 1 91 G season this afternoon on Cummings field leginn!ng at o'clock. Though not all the Crimson warriors have yet returned to .alt Lake folio wins the vacation period, pe-riod, it is expected that a fairly largo Kfjnad will appear on the campus. The lernainder of the 1015 eleven anil freshman fresh-man leeruits will all show up within the neM few days. Coach Nelson Norgren feels that a fair team la asmired for the coming .season, lint ho is not at all overconfident. He experts players of only the usual amount of anility ami believes that by hard work lie can mold them into a championship eleven. The srpiad will be minus several stars from last year Tigijy Ward, Roy Mc-Inlyre, Mc-Inlyre, Parrel Gardner. Al Brokmeyer, Jim Lillie and Lloyd Crouch. And it is till possible that Mark Gardner and Peter Ma i t hakis will tie missing. Bill Goodrich, uiiti of the. most promising of the new men last fall, will attend Michi-ga Michi-ga n university. The s.iuad will still have such men as 1 1: P Van Pelt. Low ell Komney. Jack lirc-kon. Pat King. Homer Warner and F. .Morrison, and the fresh ie learn wlli send up an unusually large number of players. The infants last year kept about twenty-five men in suits during the entire en-tire season, a record at the local university, univer-sity, and they were put through the kind of training which develops football players. play-ers. Capta in Harold Kay, Harold Goodwin. Chester Carlson, Jack Uayward. Norm God ho. Lloyd Taylor, Wllimar Benson, Francis Porter, Chance Whitney, Clyde Romney, Maurice Roache, Gerald McDonnell Mc-Donnell and JSleve Kerr are some of the players who will be back and who are expected to try for the varsity. Tt is feared that the university may he unable to obtain the services of Johnny V.reathed as assistant coach this year. The students, coach and athletic council members would like to have him return, but it Is rumored that Breathed is now too w 11 settlel in business in Chicago to come out here this year. Last fall Lreathed would have liked very much to stay, hut the football season had been a financial failure and the athletic council coun-cil could not fp its way clear lo re- ' ta ining him during the entire college year.