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Show GRIDIRON URL BECOMMSt Question of Demobilization Demobiliza-tion May Entirely Upset Project for Game. The pro pose il font hull fiiie between loams ivprescntinp tht rntv.;r.sity of I't.'ih finil the- H. V. I'. S. A. T. ( rta moru than ever in il stulo of wih-.m-IuImLv. vyldpmcnls j'CHtci-day added new tanplea lo lh(! (ilroiuly ctinipli;atd situation. Ip to yesterday there was a well-de-v-loped liope that tlio train.' would bo played on Saturtiii.v, December 7. The onry ohstacle to tin; fracas on tliat day was l ho continuation of the Influenza epidemic. It was tentatively puttied that tf the ban were lifted by Friday of this week. nrraiiKeinems for ihe Ki'iue would be pressed, and the players would jump in for some hard training during the intervening in-tervening week. Now another consideration arises. The question of demobilizing the S. A. T. C. is at this hour Ihe U-adliiL,- issue. If the decision Is lo demobilize, it b possible that actual release of thy boys would follow fol-low at once. In tJiat event tht're would b jl Keiieral scattering before the date of the- .game. On Ihe other hand, th-re lis just ; si-tat a possibility 'thai the work of demobilizing might n.-iujre some d:iy, and in that case the teams" would remain intact for- the time being. The third con- i saieiation is the decision not to demobilize ; it t all, and this offers the best chance ; for the game. i L'ntil the momentous question- of demobilization de-mobilization is determined, it will be impossible im-possible to 1 outcast the immediate future of football. There is still a cbnnce of grid game at (,'ummings field Thursday, in spite of nil the discouragement. C and D companies com-panies have asked Coach Tommy Kitz-patrick Kitz-patrick for the use of uniforms for a game on Thanksgiving, and unless the disbanding order interferes. Thanksgiving day of 1 IMS nu;y yet wit ness u football buttle-, and thereby the threaten"d brtak in be history of Thanksgiving day as a big football day in I'lah would be at least -artialiy averted. "While a, game between the training-corps bo s would by no means be one of those "lj"-Aggio bailies bai-lies which ramually have set thousands of football hearts aflame, it would be football foot-ball nevertheless. Coach Pitzpatrick can see littl" to rejoice re-joice about in the prosper t for athletics In the immediate future. Whatever happens, hap-pens, it seems a sufe prediction that there will be little activity until the year 0919 Khali have been rum; in. With the be-in-.ling of the new year- provided, of couise. that the influenza scourge has been thoroughly thor-oughly beaten dov. n basketball would be in order. Thus far neither coach nor prospective hoop material has given much thought to that sport, owing to the disturbed dis-turbed condition of affairs, and for that reason il is impossible to foretell whether or not Utah can produce another world's champion hoop team. t Unquestionably Coach Kitzpatrlek will be able to find a sufficient number of competent men for a fast quint, but at the moment the exact strength of a prospective team is a man- r of doubt. |