Show i In What oL oi oLA I I By Lon Richardson A MASTER l COACH Last fall faU the sport world was praising Babe rry Washington State coach who piloted his Cougar s to the Pacific Coast conference football championship The Babe Bale wasn't a college athlete in ill fact he has just drifted into coaching It was a remarkable feat for a man who had never had experience to match wits with the master minds of or seasoned college athletes and coaches coaches and and win vim We have a similar case in Utah today today Coach Reed Swenson of Murray high Swenson's Smelter boys arc are state scholastic basketball champions Reed never pla played red college basketball three years of experIence experience ex ex- at little Brigham high being his only seasoning But he has been beena a m muter master ster prep school coach Graduating from Brigham Young university in the spring of ot 1926 after alter playing football and wrestling Sven len Svenson son son on start started d his coaching career at Monroe l hi high h school The Presidents won on a berth in the state e tournament for two years ears under R Reed ed Swenson switched to Murr Murray y high in the tha fall of 1929 His Smelter boys entered the tournament and gave the champion champlon cham cham- pion plon HInckley quintet its closest battie battie battle bat bat- tie tle in the 1930 meet This season Swenson's fourth in flie fhe coaching field lie won the Jordan Jordan Jor dan district championship and marched straight to the thc state throne Swenson's tc teams ms play basketball Ills His champion Murray aggregation g Isone is isone isone one of the greatest passing teams r overto everto over ever er erto to wina win a state championship What Reed lacks Jacks in college experience he has certainly made up in concentrated concen study of the court game Some coach this Reed Swenson- Swenson and a a. genuine gentleman too |