Show n r Topics From 4 The Tepee Tepee TOMMIE PORTER S By MV 1 i I IThe The smaller schools of Utah's prep athletic association will renew their bid for a division of competition competition-at at least in football football foot- foot ball all and basketball basketball according according to student enrollment before the he 1941 grid season rolls around Preliminary moves in this direction may be made at Mondays Monday's meeting of Region Two prep rep leaders Most leaders of the smaller schools are dissatisfied with the present arrangement whereby teams earns representing schools of all sizes izes from those having only a hundred or so students to those with more than 1000 compete as equals quals The smaller schools' schools coaches point out that they have for or example only 50 boys out for or football even including mores Allowing for early sea season on injuries scholastic difficulties and andle the le boys who do not play football this his usually gives a coach a squad of f some 35 20 boys as compared to o the 80 or more at the schools having or more stu- stu dents dents Our boys are game enough and nd more than willing to play those lose larger teams and we beat those lose big fellows now and then the he the coaches say but even in victory victory vic- vic tory ory the cost is great We Ve have say ay six backfield men our larger opponent has 10 to 12 We play them hem and two backs of each team get jet hurt That doesn't bother the big ig team but where does it leave us s with another game possIbly game possibly against another big team team team-in in the I next ext next six or seven days The same thing ling is true of linesmen We simply cannot produce enough reserves reserves re- re serves erves from our limited student enrollment to make competition with the large schools worth while Injuries and lowering of team and nd school chool morale point to the great need eed for or alteration of the present system They show that in Region Three which has ha only one A school with or more students stu stu- dents Provo dents Provo and six smaller schools with all games being rated on a par both an A and a B championship are usually awarded But Provo Provo Provo-or or a few years ago Carbon Carbon Carbon-as as the big big team either wins or wrecks the chances of some smaller school or a B school is forced to represent the region in the state A play offs against stronger rivals In the local Jordan district all schools are rated on a par par par-al- al although though A and B winners are named and the coaches point out that in the past seven years the four lour A schools schools' have held seven football titles and 15 of ol 20 berths in the state basketball tourney while the B schools were were gain gaining gainIng gain gain- Ing four lour grid titles and the five re remaining remaining remaining re- re cage meet places Not since in the early have the smaller schools gained equal representation representation rep rep- in basketball and while having equal representation in football during the past four years rears they have been rather battered battered battered bat bat- around by the larger and usually heavier squads of ol the large schools The small schools of southeastern southeast southeast- ern Utah quit football or refused to compete with Carbon the loneA ioneA lone ione loneA A A school of that district because because because be be- cause they thought the handicap too great And in Region One where all schools are grouped in class A because of ol geographical location and regardless of ol size only two small schools schools Preston Preston and North Cache have Cache have won football honors in 21 years After nearly two decades of competition Grantsville with only students withdrew from the Jordan district race this pa past t sea season on because It saw no ne reason reason reason rea rea- son for being hammered about by larger schools In withdrawing the Cowboys followed the example set many years ago by such schools as Salina Tintic Uintah Monroe and Ephraim Proponents of the divided competition competition com com- competition petition call attention to the fact that only once in the past nine years has a small school captured the state cage title title title-in in 1939 when Uintah won that no small school has ha been track champion since Spanish Fork held the top in 1930 and 1931 and that in nearly all near near-by states states notably notably Idaho Nevada Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- vada and Wyoming Wyoming the the competition tion is divided Many of the coaches say they would not mind testing their small I squads against the wealth of material material ma ma- material at large schools in the state finals but that even there they are under a serious handicap in having so few lew boys eligible for ath ath- Many A school coaches also favor such a division of play so the move may be made easily Other athletic groups of the nation nation nation na na- tion have recognized such a handicap handicap handi handi- cap and acted accordingly Boxing Boxing Boxing Box Box- ing is divided according to weight of ot the fighters baseball leagues are formed according to size and material collegiate groups are arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ranged according to size A. A A A. U. U is divided into senior and junior classes and so on Certainly the smaller schools have a problem worthy of serious consideration not only by the Utah prep leaders but by parents teachers and other followers of scholastic activities Prominent Salt Lake City automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile salesman announces his connection with the Lyman Motor Motor Motor Mo Mo- tor Company distributors o of f Dodge and Plymouth Cars and Rated Job-Rated Dodge Trucks |