Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-11 | Page 6 | Freshman Mentor at Utah University Will Succeed Coach Homer Christensen

freshman Mentor at Utah University Win Succeed Coach Homer Christensen IF Former ormer University Star Is Given Appointment by y City Board of Education tion Will W ll Take e I Up New Duties Assisting Coach M Me- Me 1 Intyre in Football Season I c j I r By Harvey Hancock T T- T ELAND former East High and University of r of I Lj L Utah athlete and last year veal coach of the Crimson freshman tea team S was appointed athle athletic tie dir director tor at t the the West Vest Side High highs I s school hool hobl last night by the Salt Lake City board of education ll lIe He will ill fill the position left vacant by Homer Christensen who has left the coaching game to enter business The acquisition of at the West High is a notable triumph of or orthe the policy of or Red and Black men S for Red and Black position was an round all-round athlete at the East High school competing in baseball track football and basket basket- ball At the culmination of his scholastic training he was was awarded awarded S the Richmond medal for being the best athlete In the school After Arter leaving the I East Kast ast High entered the University of Utah and pla played ed on the tho Freshman t team am in 1918 In 1919 1910 he played end endon endon on the famous Crimson machine captained captained cap cap- tamed by Mitt Romney and in 1920 was appointed captain of ot the Utah machine S During that season played entirely on fighting spirit having been hurt in the earl early part of the year and never neer recovered sufficiently sufficient sufficient- I ly to ow his best ability In the l memorable 7 to 0 victory over Boulder pla played ed in Colorado that I year ear ear played with two broken i ribs and a badly wrenched ankle l sending Swan to end to go down on punts when the Injury slowed him down I r will always alwa's remember in thAt hat game against Boulder Utah r had been beaten three straight The TheL morale of the eleven had been shaken shak shak- L en and himself was severely r crippled Colorado had won every game and was the 3 to 1 I favorite to win In nearly ever ever every barber shop they were betting 20 points on the S L I found seated on the bed after the morning exercise stroll L I believe were we're going to win today to to- day dav I feel teel It in my bones he said He lie ran his football back and forth on his chain that he received in 1919 and it kept trailing trailing- toward the point marked the Utah goal Then he heI I jumped up Im sure were we're going to win to toda today today to- to da day he burst out It was that kind of ot spirit that displayed In his three years as as a a. member of ot the Crimson ma ma- chine It was that stern fighting I determination that made him the friend nd of every every everyone one of 01 his team team- mates I