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Show UTAH GfllODEfiS BEGIN LABORS . M WEDNESDAY Freshmen Will Be Used With the Regular Squad; Norgren Promises Stiff Training Season. Within a few days much light will be cast on the prospects of the University Univer-sity of Utah in the approaching footbnll season. The call for the, first practice has been issued by Coach Nelson Norgren Nor-gren for Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. This call includes both freshman fresh-man and varsity candidates. No letters have been sent out to the men this year as has been the custom for several years, and, as a result, Norgren Nor-gren has no way of knowing how many of his men will return to school. Tho first meeting of the candidates on Cummin Cum-min gs J ield Wednesday should bring out a lot 6f dope concerning the whereabouts where-abouts and intentions of members of tlie 191G squad. At the present time the general uncertainty un-certainty makes the prospects look poor as compared with the early season dope of past seasons. But tho same is true to a greater or lesser extent in all tho colleges of the country. According to gossip, there is a certainty of tho return re-turn of only two regulars. These, are Homer Warner, right end and candidate for captnincy, and Harold Goodwin, Hie big tackle who came up last fall from the freshman npiad. Many Are Absent. All the other regulars either hae been graduated, joined the national service serv-ice or a pplied for en t ranee t o some branrh of the military. The graduates are Koger Van Pelt, Dick jlonnu'v, Karl Wilson, Dog J )ouglas and Lew Ker-rick. Ker-rick. Kmmci Bohan, f'hnrles McGill, Francis Porter, Fons Tho rum and Pat (Continued on Paco Three.) IT GEMS Bffl' II 01 MM! (Continued from Page One.) King have enlisted in the army or navy. Lloyd Taylor has been called in the draft, but has not yet been ordered to report. Bish Kav, 'the only remaining ; regular, has applied for training in an army aviation school. Of tho second-string second-string men, it is known that Dave Coleman Cole-man will return, and that Dick Davis and Maurice Roche may do so. Brick Wareing, a prominent member of the freshman eleven last year, will be back. After looking over the prospects yesterday yes-terday Norgren said that the eleven was iii need of a line, a quarterback and a backfield, and that outside of that everything was all right. This spirit indicates that the coach fully realizes that he is up against a stiff proposition in undertaking to develop a winning team this year. Chance for Infants. Questioned about his plans, Norgren said that he would work tho freshman and varsity- players together this year. When asked if his purpose was to anticipate antic-ipate a change in the con ference rules which would allow freshmen to play on the varsity eleven, he replied that this was one reason, and another was to give the infants the best possible training train-ing in view of. the fact that they will stand in the limelight this year more than in the past. " Reports have come from Denver recently re-cently to the effect that many of the schools comprising the Rocky Mountain conference are in favor of abandoning for tho period of the war the rule which forbids freshmen to play on varsity elevens during the first half of their freshman year. The same change, in fact, is being discussed throughout the east as well, where the fre.shmaii rule bars the infants during their entire first year. Freshmen Needed. It is argued that so many men have been drawn into service that interest in inter-collegiate athletics will wane unless un-less the schools can draw from their supply sup-ply of freshmen. In the Kooky Mountain conference the difficulty is increased bv the rule which forbids conference freshmen fresh-men from playing against one another. As a result, the University of Ut.JTi infants in-fants could not play the Utah Aggie freshmen even if the first-year teams were far superior to the varsity elevens. Under such a condition ffv persons would care to see a weak Oimnon aggregation ag-gregation line up against a weak Aggie Squad.. Vet they would be unaMo to tee the teams which were really strongest in the rival institutions go at. one another. Shining Opportunity. The freshman rule was designed largely large-ly to prevent "tramp athletes'' from roaming about the country from one school to another. It is argued that the war itself has accomplished this result. However, whether or not this rule ?-changed, ?-changed, the Crimson freshmen will grt a g .li nine chanr-o this J'nll. They will have the veiy Inst of treatment in the way of equipment, morning, rub-dowiif , etc. ,N org :cn liiinse!!', an well jis an assistant, as-sistant, w i J 1 i a I r u c t. t li em p v e r v day during the f-v;inn. No freshmen were ever bcl'm-p u lurkv. Jt is reported on good authority that Stan Johnson, the ''Big Swede, '' who performed in four branches of spot at. the We-t high school, will attend tho "U'' tbi f:t!l. lie had never Fnii a font ball un:il h wont to high hoo!, and he still has a zood de; I to lea rn . despi t e t Iw record he made in the M ort and his zood training train-ing tin d'"T ( 'n.'n'h H -n ry I.'ifhan Knn. V hat p d vnnt a ge it will ho to a man like him to crrt v.nrjitv t r;: i ni ng j n hi first ve:ir. tivit; enabling him to mrik' the be;-t hsp nf his grm stren'h. only a man who ha-; niic 'hrmvjh the L'nnd of both flaf-ses of football can i-;iy mi d-TsI n n I. j f-viT'.' f r"--!:;vnn p!nvir in the i rst hi- i had ''hi- advania-e.' l.p would have renchr-l Li:-- U form just on-1 year ;-orner. The. war-time grid warrior of ail gr;j'ie at tho "U"' will have rue fon-tort fon-tort thr.f n f n c of their predeco-r have had. 'Ihey -.v;!! have ; lenty of locker-, p le nt v of room to ' ):a n ge c'ot hes and for r;d ' in z pr.rpo r . pieni -,- of -ho v-i-.is and a -,vi n"ii,in:g poo, 'j'lte g'-Tiina-.''"'' ' r'":i lf,n'l',f,"-f,d 'iur- r . : In ti:e pa'-1 tiicr w:-, no to.,', a.i i:;-" :i''''''r.t nnmii'-'r of n-. r- and bLocrs mi-j a d'vid-:! Ja':k of |