Show I Backseat Driving Bouquet for Dick c C. c f Praise for I A By FRANK K BAKER I Telegram Sports E Editor tor rr I Aggie le 1 Mentor tor Molds Strong Team Despite Gloomy Outlook T e re telling Dick Romney up tip Logan wa way this week what a gre great t tRUY Buy RUY h he Is Telling him they knew he could do do it Telling him how he hell he'll 11 do it next year too rr- rr r And knowIng Dick 1 Romney as M I d do 0 I x imagine ag Ln 0 t he has a salt shaker in his coat pocket as he goes goez 4 about his business a of winding up the football season I i and ind getting ready for the oncoming ng basketball camA cama camai cam- cam a ai A co coach Ch you know soon learns to listen to what of salt Today f the public has to say with a n. pinch because his Aggie Dick Romney Is a n. great guy 1 i. i f charges have broken the jinx jint of losing to the Cougars Y v from Irom the B. B Y U U. Only a year ago he had forgotten i fall all about how to coach and d ought to start following 5 a plow t t Yes Ind Indeed d. d Ones One's memory doesn't have to be beso so good to recall that a student editor sought fame fameI I and a reputation for himself at the Aggie school by editorially demanding Romneys Romney's resignation I Iwonder Iwonder wonder how that crusing youngster and h his adult supporters feel today that Romney Is riding the crest cresta a of or victor victory Wise In the ups and downs down of coaching Dick did not complain a year ago aro when disappointed alumni crl cried for his scalp Doggedly he went about his business and kept his own counsel Today he has completed an eloquent answer answer answer-a a reply that has hM come in the hungrily awaited triumph over the Y a great game against Utah's Redskins smashing wins over Western State and Wyoming and finely played games fames ames with Colorado Ag Aggles es and Denver Inasmuch as I rallied d to Dicks Dick's defense C in his hour of gloom a year ago I I 1 fe feel l. l that I can offer congratulations now with without ut seeming like a weather fair-weather friend But to Di Dick ic k I 1 1 don don don't offer congratulations Just because his lils boys beat the ever-dangerous ever Cougars That triumph was was merely a crowning climax to a bit of well-deserved well praise coach and players had already earned before they went Into batt battle e against the clawing pack from Provo Individual Players Come Through For Harassed Mentor It must have been mighty discouraging for Dick Romney In Sep Sep- when he called the We football candidates together In the face of t cry for victories he found anything but a n promising coll col col- col- col l lection of material with which to get those triumphs Big Jay Tolman Toman dependable line plunger was out of service because be because because be- be cause of leg Injuries and that left the Aggie mentor with only Burke Try Fry y and a flock of pony backs to carry to-carry carry the mall mail There was considerable heft on the tlc line but at nt the wings were two men men Gordon Gordon Dixon and John Hull who Hull who had had been only mediocre performers performers per per- formers last season Then there was the gap at center vacated by the graduation of Captain Johnny an conference all-conference selection o of many critics it was a gloomy outlook The back around whom hom he hoped t to build his attack unable to play and the first line of defense looked like a sieve Instead of a a. dike that would hol hold water 6 Then Dick and his boys began to do things with themselves Elmer Imer Yard Ward a pound tackle went to I center and after a period of erratic passing has become one of the best snapper backs in the whole conference Dixon and Hull rose to the heights and now are one of I t the e most capable t teams ams of f on any team in the The team managed to forget forget- Tolman with Fry i. i doing doIng fine ine work and Wardell and Alexander Alexander Alexan Alexan- I 4 der rising to the occasion with stellar work And that Is why I want to congratulate Dick Ro Romney ney It took r lots of hard work and a fine und understanding understanding- between coaches coache a and d. d p players e for far hee e e steps to be acco accomplished t r Enthusiastic Fans Have Ha Habit Of Putting Team on ou Spot I Its It's grea great greaf too how these good weather friends can can- count your chickens before they are hatched They're already picking for Dick Romney and his boys a place right up around the top if not the championship cham cham- of ot the next season Boy oh boy what a spot pot for a coach If he wins its it's no more than he lie ought to to- todo do and If U hI his team fails to bring bring- home the well wen known bacon then hes he's losing h his grip and ought to buy a chicken thicken farm True enough nough the thc Aggles boast a wealth of new material In the freshman team but the mos most promising freshmen I dont don't always make nake the best varsity men After looking over the material at Colorado Colorado Aggi s and Denver across the mountains and observing the prospects at Logan and Provo wre inclined to think next years year's football race will be be the wildest scramble in many moons Hal Halloran a Salt Laker who was athletic manager at Burlingame California high school In 1930 reminds us that Bur BUT has a a. student body of at yet it won the state gridiron title two years In In- Ina a ft row rowand and that Denver's great punter Joe Fenn Fena and both Dick and Oscar Oscar- Epting tackle and end are also from B Bur Bur- r. r |