Show I Once He Was Crippled Now Crippled Now Hes He's Conference All Football End End I S I. I V c 55 S fi A t- t 1 Y E- E d Ii Iii r i I f W J 1 r rf 7 V. V 7 I I tIk tr 4 I rt 4 m M i x T AW 4 S 'S 4 w ft 7 SS Nine years ago Martin lartin Brick nonan above faced a lifetime on crutches crotches Today hes he's an all conference all football end at the University of It Utah thanks to surgery on his leg ler at the Hospital for Crippled Children Next week he ho gets the chance to pay part put of ot the debt by playing In the charity fame game between the Ute varsity and Alumni squads at the annual spring fiesta Redskin Grid St Star r Owes Much to Medical Science I IBy By BILL McCREA When Martin Brick Hoggan University of ot Utah end lines up against the alumni team for lor the charity charily game Saturday April 20 In the Ute stadium hell he'll be paying a debt to medical science for his ability to walk and run like other boys For almost six months Hoggan lay layon layon layon on a bed in the ward of St St. Marks Mark's hospital Six months which were to prove whether Brick would ever have the use o of his right leg a again ain or hobble around the rest resto o or of his life on crutches At the age of 12 Brick suffered a severely broken leg while playing on the ilie parking at Eleventh East and East Second South streets with Les Saunders The bone was set but did not mend properly For approximately a year Brick who was at the time attending the Stewart school hobbled around on one leg in preference to using crutches He was dubbed Hop Along Hoggan by his playmates Then came the turning point In Bricks Brick's career He was wa-s admitted to the Shri rs' rs hospital for tor crippled children Dr A A. L. L Huether told Hoggans Hoggan's Hoggans Hoggans Hoggan's Hog Hog- gans gan's parents that even though the operation was successful Martin would probably have a stiff stilt leg So different was the Injury and since ince so o much time had transpired since the break that Dr Huether wired to a colleague in m the cast for tor consultation on the case They discussed dis dis- dis cussed cursed much of ot the procedure by telegraph before the operation was performed The operation was a success and Hoggans Hoggan's leg was placed in a cast At that time it was not known to what extent Brick might be able to use his right legOn leg On a hot July afternoon shortly after atter his dismissal from the hospital Brick decided to take off oU the cumbersome cumbersome cumbersome cumber cumber- some brace which had supplanted the cast He walked a short distance gleefully he ran a few steps Now he is an conference all football end his leg completely healed Bricks Brick's right leg is an inch and a ahalt half halt shorter than the left and he wears a special lift in his right football shoe His slight limp is hardly noticeable no no- no- no Proceeds of ot the game cam featuring the annual spring gridiron fiesta in m the theU theU theU U stadium will be shared jointly by the and L. L D. D S. S hos hos' hospitals for crippled children So when Brick plays he will have uppermost in his mind the cause for lor which he is playing a most worthy one w C Y S r vi R I V f k kH H jV j r rI 1 I tJ 4 J f T t M i 1 y A I t z j d J W ti til y l l i ra i iW l it B f f 4 i y Y ii J t y f j H OJ i. i vW Y y t K rit t f 1 k 1 l t I A ii q i 1 t J f 4 4 f W- W WS r f tt 11 N S r-f r t t r. ji 1 j i s fi Jl i r l' l rl f. 4 y t If l j w 1 rw L J B 1 Ji t tl J. |