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Show Colorado 0 l?1ay Affiliate With Big Six League DENVER. Colo., (U.R) Two collegiate athletic conferences will replace the traditional 12-team Rocky Mountain Conference alignment align-ment on Dec. 1 in the culmination of a move which started last winter win-ter under the avowed plan of enhancing en-hancing the prestige of the seven larger schools of the circuit by their secession from the organization organ-ization after its 3Sth years of operation. The Rocky Mountain conference confer-ence will continue in. name, however, how-ever, with the five smaller schools continuing to function under un-der the traditional title. The seven larger institulions have adopted the tentative name of the "Big Seven," but it is expeced that a different title will be given the circuit in the fuure. The conference situation is further fur-ther complicated by a move which is under way, although it has not come out in the open as yet, by which Colorado University would affiliate itself with the Big Six conference and leave its regional companions to their own problems. prob-lems. The seven schools which seceded from the old alignment last winter, win-ter, effective Dec. 1, are Colorado, Denver, Utah, Wyoming and Brigham Young universities, Colorado Colo-rado State and Utah State. The five schools which remain under the R. M. C. banner are Montana State, Colorado Mines, Greeley State, Western State and Colorado College. |
