| Show Backseat Dri Driving ving By Frank K Baker Telegram Sports Editor High Schools Face Short F Football Season The chances of determining a stale state high school football champion this fall all allare are more remote than ever now that the executive committee of ot the state as association meeting at the Hotel Utah Wednesday night refused to make as much as a recommendation In the matter Unless certain schools can gain special I cial permission when the larger board of control group convenes convene late in October October Oc Oc- Oc tober the state will not only go without without with with- out its Us championship program this year but it will also face an abbreviated abbreviated abbreviated season that closes November 19 With the executive group actually evading the issue the schools wishing wish wish- ing to play football until ThanksgivIng p Ing will simply have to mark time until until un un- un I til the late October meeting when I i even if they gain permission to proceed pro pro- with further competition It willbe willbe will willbe be too late to arrange a schedule that would determine a representative champion Even the hope that some high school would take lake advantage of the open collegiate collegiate col col- col- col date at the University of Utah stadium and arrange a holiday attraction attraction c- c tion is forbidden by the action of the thc board of control last spring ruling that no school may play after November Novem- Novem ber 19 With both Utah and the University Uni Un- of Utah pled pledged ed not to play within the state on Turkey day and Brigham Young tangling with the University of South Dakota at Ogden Ogden Og- Og den in the only collegiate competition in the state football fans are faced with a meager bit of at football to go with their roast turkey and err ir- ir r r- r 1 ries rles- November 24 m Mingled Sentiment Felt About bout Abolishment A regular conglomeration of complaints com com- corn com plaints brought about the decision last spring to forego the championship this year and while some of the complaints complaints com corn plaints plaint were justified it has been the theS S t tendency y to togo go to the extreme rather than make an effort to remedy the matter that has brought about the abolition of the title program It Itis Iti is most true that certain improve improve- m should be made mad over the old program if the sch schedule dule is to be becar- becar carried car ried Tied out to the mutual benefit of all the teams The difficulty however is that bat its opponents have the idea that the proper supervision is too much trouble f for far r what its it's worth While there was n no direct statement to the effect there was a sentiment evidenced at t the exe executive committee meeting that since the board of con- con comprising superintendents and principals of th the schools schooLs had had questioned questioned ques ques- tinned the value of the championship setup it is best to let it discover ver its own error through the coming season This diplomatic gesture probably explains why the members of the executive executive ex ex- ex committee withheld any official cial dat suggestion in the matter for their informal discussion generally favored a return to the championship setup tup At least e t they they made made it emphatic that they were not net to blame for vetoing the playoff L I. W W. Neilson of Jordan and chairman of the committee stated specifically that I am ani in favor of the cham championship idea and will vill keep fighting until we we get it back Revised Conference Proposal Favored The Inception of a new setup comprising com corn five or six new districts or conferences in which all the members would play playa a regular league schedule to determine their champion who would represent them against the champions of the other leagues es in the state playoff seems to be the hope of of returning to the championship sched sched- ule ute Such a proposal was made as the itic S report of ofa a committee investigating investigating investigating in in- the matter for the board of control last spring While some schools blamed overemphasis of athletics ath ath- others complained about the players being out of school now and then for the trips and others said it was too expensive One of the chief objections was the briefness of the season to a team that was eliminated in the early play since it was difficult to obtain other games after a team fell felt from the championship running This his problem was was' particularly noticeable notice able in the smaller districts where they played only three or four games before the play began The conference proposal offers otters a remedy It would establish a complete schedule In each cach district th thereby reby simplifying the matter of booking games and shortening the actual actual actual ac ac- ac- ac playoff between winners to three weeks without Interruption to the play of the teams not In the running This proposal will likel likely have a large Jarge following too when the d delegates delegates dele dele- legate le- le gates gate get together for their October session It is ir felt also also- that the 21 principals who voted against the championship playoff playa last spring in questionnaires ent sent out at the insistence insist insistence ence of the board of education atlon will find a tough Job balking a return to the title program before the concerted conc concert concert- ed ed attack of many schools being roused to ire over the present situa situa- tion Several schools no doubt will make strong bids to play on such sucha a choice date as Thanksgiving and by that time probably will have gained enough sentiment among the board of control members to draw the special con consent necessary At lc least st that is the hope of a holiday game for some of the larger centers |
