Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-11 | Page 13 | Conference Hints

I I Conference Conf nc I Hints H II its I IBy B By William H. H Bailey Dailey United Press Correspondent Picking a Rocky Mountain all- all conference team this year is going to be a tough old row to hoe hoc To the thc victor belongs tho the spoils and Utah has spoiled most of ot the rest of the conference The Utes undoubtedly will get et the edge on players proposed for the mythical eleven cleven Tobasco Tedesco the tantalizing terror seems a cinch Tobasco is the only thing as hot as his name CrashIng CrashIng Crash- Crash Ing lag Chris Christensen seems pretty safe at fullback though he hasn't shown this year with the sparkling brilliance of or last Or else we are arc beginning to look upon brilliance from him as a matter of course COLO S MAKE BIDS Swede Roark the lanky tow-head tow of at Colorado college ought to get a alook alook alook look in at end Roark played a brilliant brilliant bril brit game against Utah If It he plays brilliantly against Denver university university er sity hero Saturday Saturday and and ho he should should- his chances will wUl be even better Starbuck the hard bard hitting Bengal tackle plays a beautiful though less spectacular game Blakeney and Thomas for tor Denver university arc are going to find plenty of supporters Slick Haley Nelson and McGlone appear the tho best bets on the Colorado university squad Haley in particular lar mr has played some pretty football this season Red White the flashing Colorado Aggie half has played a lot of ot foot foot- ball Two yard 80 runs to his credit In the tho game with Wyoming were tremendously spectacular and Red has been consistently good all aU sea sea- son And those arc are only a few a-few of ot the ou outstanding players in the confer confer- ence PLENTY OF CANDIDATES The Utah Aggles B. B Y U. U Western State Colorado Teachers Wyoming Montana State and Colorado Mines haven't even been tapped in the list named And there arc some sweet players on some of who will rate the conference all-conference eleven Picking an anything all-anything is a thankless task There is always some Joe Glutz of good old Slippery Elm whose family supported by all nIl the neighbors think he ho should be on the team And they dont don't hesitate to write nasty remarks to the picker of an something all-something who left Joe Joc to waste his fragrance on the desert air TOUGH PICKING An conference all team Is about as 81 tough a proposition 0 as there is Generall Generally Generally Gen Gen- there are arc sufficient stars of tremendous magnitude who flash across the annual football firmament firmament firma firma- ment that an American team ls almost a natural But in a conference conference confer confer- ence particularly a conference where 90 00 per cent of at the teams are almost evenly matched it IUs is hard to find tho the little touches of football skill that make one ono good player a little better than another good player I And after an conference all team ham hamIs is picked it probably would lose to the conference toll taU Individual ual stars are arc nice things t to have around They reek with publicity and are arc a big box office draw but it takes eleven men to make a football team and there never has bas been one ono player yet et who could turn a Ii mediocre team into a 8 good team