Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-22 | Page 16 | Backseat Driving

e Driving r A New Conference I FRANK ft K BAKER Besides hoping to bring home a major portion of the track laurels Utah's three members of the Rocky Mountain ln conference will go o t to Denver this week hoping to help bring some definite decision out of the thc arguments argument about a Big Bg Six and Big Eight organization Of the two assignments the winning of the major portion of the thc track honors will undoubtedly be the easier casler Brigham Youngs Young's state champion Cougars should win the crown and thereby replace Utah as a. the titleholder The Utes should finish either second or third depending upon how formidable Colorado Ag les prove With Utah stepping away to a couple of individual championships the three Utah schools aref are f favored to win more moro than half of the first places Under the present u sc zip setup p of 12 members the thc conference COllI con con- I ference is too unwieldy to permit a school to 10 compete conzet against all the thc schools every year ca except l in ill track i in ill r which all can call lc kc assembled for the conference meet Besides some of the schools such as Colorado Mines are are arc too small to 10 offer serious com competition to 10 institutions ons like Utah Denver and Colorado university Bringing order out of ot the chaotic arguments about the new conference setups however will be a much more difficult problem now that certain interests In Colorado arc are making a political issue out outS of ot the matter Either a a. Big Biff Six or a Big Biff Eight would be an improvement over o the present situation so far as the Utah schools arc are concerned ConsIderable Considerable Con Con- fan Inn Interest would be added adde by a conference that de demanded demanded demanded de- de each school to play all of or the other teams in both in-both both football and basketball I Wyoming Invited Because Of Basketball Tradition When Colorado Denver and Colorado university sought to withdraw from the conference last fall and Sand set up a new unit with the three Utah schools choos they encountered the first barrier of inviting Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming ining to also join the new group Wyoming was picked of course because because because be be- be cause of its basketball tradition So far so good but but with Wyoming In an eighth member was needed to fill out an team eight-team league and Colorado college was approached That has been the stumbling blo block k so far Colorado Teachers demanded demanded de- de to kno know why they were ere left out in the cold Were Vere they not rep representatives cs of a state Institution and did they not have a bigger enrollment than Colorado college Teachers found certain people of influence who told authorities at Colorado university and Colorado Aggles that they were playing unfair with a brother state institution Colorado and Colorado Angles Arrles so soft pedaled their part In the new program Actual decision was postpones postpone until this spring Denver has hu since come out openly for the Big Biff Six or Big Eight If It the three Utah schools stick together tog they and Denver should be able to in influence the others to into line lor for something virtually I must be done this week