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Show 'U' STUDENTS RULlf BEHINDJODP TEAM Plenty of Enthusiasm for Victory Over Aggies in Saturday Game. Taking tlie view that the game approaching ap-proaching between the University of Utah and the Utah Aggies on Saturday will be the "biggest" game of the whole basketball season, students of the "U" are planning a scries of rallies designed to place the entire institution actively behind the hoop squad. A big rally will be held at the school Friday forenoon and, perhaps, a parade and rally the following day. The Crim-Eon Crim-Eon band will be at the game and will strike up the school song tunes during the contest. D. C. Duncan, a senior ot the university, univer-sity, who was yesterday appointed manager man-ager of basketball by the athletic council, coun-cil, intends to get the high schools of the city interested in the contest, and, with this in view, the students of those schools will be admitted to the contest at half the regular admission price. Soldiers, Sol-diers, also, will be given the benefit of the reduced rate, as was the case during dur-ing the football season. For 1918 Title. The Aggies and the "U" appear to be the two schools that will fight it out for the championship this year, both the B. Y. C. and the HI V. U. having been defeated. de-feated. Utah fondly believes that it can carry away the title if it wdns the first game between the two schools. The Crimson quint is rapidly improving and, it is thought, would surely win in the second contest if it can tuck away the first on Saturday. On the .other hand, the "V." men believe they would have a fighting chance in the second game, even if they lost the first one, though they .refuse to admit that there is much danger of a defeat, in the coming fray. It cannot be doubted that the Crimson Crim-son has a first-class aggregation of individual in-dividual players who are being worked into better team play with each practice. Judging the prospects for the future by the showing the Crimson has made in the opening games when team work was more or less lacking at times, many critics hold the view that the "U" will be a formidable one when the men' become be-come accustomed to one another and play in combination. The Aggies' Chances. The Aggies up to the present time have had the advantage in team work, because some of their men have played together before. Whether or not the remainder re-mainder of their aggregation can measure meas-ure up to the standard of the Crimson string is a question which will have much to do with the championship, in the opinion of local fans. It developed at the athletic council meeting yesterday that the "U" finances are not in the best of shape, due largely to the. effect of the war. The council decided to take tip the matter with President John A. Widtsoe and the board of regents in an attempt to find a solution. It is thought that a record-breaking crowd will attend the Utah-Aggie basketball game, and that the receipts from this will go a long way toward solving the problem. There is just a chance that Utah will play Bennion's Montana Aggies next year. The matter was discussed yesterday yester-day by the council, but no decision was niade. It is proposed to play the contest con-test on October 26. . |