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Show New Coach Has Outstanding Athletic Record New Mentor Will Assume Duties As Head Football Coach; Will Assist In Basketball and Track Art Gilbert, newly selected mentor for football and assistant basketball and track coach, will join the teaching staff of the Springville high school begin- Sning with school opening next fall. Mr. Gilbert comes to the high school with an outstanding athletic ath-letic record in high school and in college. A graduate of South high in Salt Lake City, Gilbert was chosen all-city player seven times twice in football, twice in basketball, bas-ketball, twice in baseball, and once in track. He was also student body president there. At Brigham Young university, he excelled as a running guard on the Cougar grid team. He was co-captain of the "Y" team last year and has won his letter in that sport three times. Local fans here will probably remember him for his basketball ability on the local court in the divisional di-visional M Men tourney. Affiliated with the Fourth ward team of Pro-vo, Pro-vo, Art won the plaudits of many fans because of his outstanding playing and his interesting personality. person-ality. Springville's football prospects for next year should soar to a new high and much is anticipated in the grid warfare for 1941. As assistant as-sistant basketball and track coach, Gilbert will help Coach Hughes, who will be back at his regular post for the coming season. Besides his athletic ability, Gilbert Gil-bert has some fame as an entertainer, enter-tainer, He has a slightly better than B average for his five years of undergraduate work at" the university uni-versity and lacks but one quarter's work of finishing his master's degree. |