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Show FRESHMEN TO HIE GHAHCE . IT HOOP GAME War Needs Have Taken Practically All the Experienced Experi-enced Men on College Teams. Intercollegiate basketball in Utah will probably not reach the standard this year that it has maintained in past seasons, sea-sons, owing to the heavy drain upon the state's" schools by - war needs and further owing to the new eligibility rule which prohibits the playing of high school boys on varsity teams. Though tho hoop sport may not be played with the same degree of skill as has marked it in the past, there is no indication that the old interest and ri- valrv of the arions institutions will di- minish in t he least. The new eiigibil- ; itv rule hits the li. V. V. hardest and i will have no affect whatever on the1 Universit.v of Utah or the Utah Ag- ! "ies. The withdrawal of so many hoop J stars from tho colleges will shift the. burden to the freshmen players, but i that is all. The season will be a memorable one : for freshmen players. The University j of Utah has only one letter man back i at school and the other schools are in I practically the same fix. Moreover, the! reserve players on last year's squad j are iust about all gone. Fortunately, manv hih school boys entered college in 1917 and are ."heady preparing for; action on the basketball floor. The I rules of the Utah state intercollegiate ! conference and the 1,'ot-ky Mountain : eonterenec will allow these nu-n to 1 compete at any time during the basket- j ball season. ; Aggies' Chances Bright. j The Utah Aggies obtained a large' number of hoop men trom the West ; hicli school and the pringvilie high school, who togeth'T with a coup'e of . old iv.cn, should comprise a strong' team. ; At the present time it would 'appear ' that the Agie? have the bcct chance for the state title. The B. Y. U. will I i (Contf'Prl on VfltPTring H?e, j FRESHMEN TO HAVE HP mil EKE ' (Continued from Page One.) face a hard situation, it is said, be-, cause Coach Koberts wiil no longer be allowed to use the high school plaveis at the Provo school. If so, it will be the first time in many years that the B. Y. I". has not put a strong team in the field at the start of the season. Ilonmr Warner is the onlv letter man at the University of Utah," aud around him Coach Tommy Fitzpatriek will trv to build up a strong aggregation, lie will have plenty of raw .material, but few stars. However, Die. little Irish- man is going ahead with energy. will call a meeting Tuesday noon ltr ari the men at the university in an effort to get plenty of material in the field. On Wednesday a class series will begin 4 'when the juniors and seniors play. On f the following day the sophomores and freshmen will perform, and a championship champion-ship contest will be staged on Fndav He hopes in this way to find some good players. Starts With Twenty. Tommy says that he will begin with a squad of about twenty men and will cut down to about ten as thc season advances. Some of the men who are expected to put up a fight for honors are Wilford Koinney-, Merlyn Stevenson, Steven-son, Stubby Gray. Lyman Chinman. Clarence Rudine, Cliff Simpson, Ralph Stewart, Sam Beal. Carl Wing. Art McGregor Mc-Gregor and Howard Ceo, former Tooele player. Harold Goodwin, former star on the Springville team, has not played basketball since entering the university, but Tommy expects to get h.m out iu. the team. It is doubtful if any games will bo played with Colorado teams this yer. but" it is known that Montana is" trying try-ing to meet the university. The Ku:kr mountain conference delegate? will meet in Denver on .lanuarv 12, and the conference con-ference aspect of t he basketball sea-I sea-I son will be settled at that time, j The "I"'' basketball season may ! said to 1)0 starting tomorrow owing to i the delay in obtaining a coach at the institution. The first game c,i!I h? played .lanuarv 2'3. and the Criinsoii squad will have to show speed to reach condition. i |