Show I 1 5 p 0 r t s sr r Mirror r Bv By JOHN MOO MOONEY EY Telegram Sports Editor 1 Its It's five months minus a couple of days until Utah invades mades Moscow to play the Idaho Vandals in a Homecoming Homecoming Home Home- coming cOp football game September 27 but already the cry cc Beat eat Utah is reverberating through the hills of the Gem State o And ind observers who've seen Francis Schmidt put put his new new Vandal charges hages ha through their paces arent aren't any too optimistic over over the Redskins' Redskins possibilities of duplicating tl their ir victories of 1 1939 39 and 1940 at the expense of Idaho Theres There's grounds for these scouts' scouts jubilation and some ex excuse excuse ex- ex c cuse e for Coach Ike Armstrongs Armstrong's professed fears of the Vandals In the first place Ike will be walking into the Idaho stadium prepared for anything and everything but still in doubt as to what to expect Scouts say that Schmidt is having the Vandals flip the pigskin pig pigskin pig pig- skin k n all over the lot with the idea of getting as many points as asp p possible before the opponent gets set Plotting a defense foi for lor a system youve you've heard is wide open but never seen in in actual play will keep Ike out of mischief this this' fall I Then hen too the Vandals are bound to be keyed for this game since Schmidt has had all spring and will have had all the summer to keep the lads on on edge The Utes in the thelast thelast last two years have had hada a a hard time getting steamed up over ver the Idaho game since the Vandals have been down downIn lm in In their grid luck Its It's also homecoming at Moscow and any any ny follower of sport knows how a m mediocre team can an hit the heights of greatness performing before th the home folks Schmidt has a gre great t advantage over Armstrong too Idaho is certain to have hundreds of fe feet t of motion picture picture film showing the Utah a attack tack and defense e giving giving giving ing Schmidt the opportunity to dope things out before he ever sees the Utes play Of course Armstrong could send back to the midwest midwest midwest mid mid- west to one of his many friends in the coaching profession profession profession sion to borrow films of Schmidt's Ohio Ohi State club but it is doubtful if such strategy would pay much in the way of dividends since th the B Buckeye and Vandal material differ differ dif dif- dif dif- fer so so much that Schmidt possibly has had to modify or revamp a lot of his plays Theron Parmelee graduate manager of of Utah athletics passed the word along Wednesday that any Redskin boosters wanting tickets for the Utah-Idaho Utah game this this- fall fail had better put their bi bids s' s in right away since the alumni are booming the tickets for fora a sell out already The Utes at least the officials of the club arent aren't taking this game lightly since Parmelee already has announced that the Redskins will spend the n night at Pullman Wash and reach Moscow just before game time game time Saturday Schmidt is expected to shoot the works in an effort to tomake tomake tomake make a showing before the alumni for if he should beat the Ahe Utes the Vandals would be assured a better season than 1940 when they tied Nevada and Utah State for their only t f f. f sp spots ts Ardent boosters reme remembering bering that 60 0 affair with Boston college are certain to rave if Schmidt can make 8 a good game of it Ike probably wont won't vary from his determination to 10 lay Jay layoff layoff off the high pressure stuff and will let the Utes play the game in stride Armstrong has two reasons for such a system system tem 1 It tends to protect the boys against let-downs let the following week and 2 Ike holds the opinion that the mental mental mental men men- tal strain is hard ard on the players Of course cours the fact that Utah wont won't key for the Idaho game is not influenced in the slightest degree by the fact that Wyoming and Bunny Oakes will open the Utah season season season sea sea- son in Salt Lake Ci City y October 4 Ike as as' he is never al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed to forget for long has never beaten an Oakes- Oakes coached team Theres There's really not the slightest reason in inthe inthe inthe the world to expect Wyoming to beat the Utes except Bunny Oakes Wyoming's prospects in football are no better or worse than they were five months ago when this writer summarized Wyoming U has been the doormat of the conference for so io so many years that its its athletes are tre beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning to wonder if their W V monograms stand for Wyoming Wyo C mir ming g or V C Welcome cleome Oakes will make Wyoming a tough football team or cause the univ university to a abolish olish football and Bunn Bunny at the same tine time Hes He's a driver and should build the Cowboys into a winning chubin club chub b in in in three years at the the most ost But But getting back t to that Idaho game its it's quite conceivable conceivable con con- for forthe the Vandals to upset Utah and start a victory march that mig might extend most of the season Compare Idaho Idaho- with Stanford Not much in common common last year you youcan youcan youcan can justifiably say but compare Idaho of last Jast year and Stanford of 1939 and the similarity becomes more pronounced pronounced pro pro- And it can be carried further with a little imagination St Stanford down don in iri the dumps rescued Clark from Chicago and went on to become a winner Idaho in inthe inthe inthe the dumps pic picked d up Schmidt from Ohio State university also l o in the Big Ten conference Schmidt and have a lot in common in jn that they stress offensive ve football figuring and rightly 0 so that the opponent isn't going to score much while youre you're monopolizing the ball carrying If Schmidt has anywhere near the success Shaughn Shaugh Shaugh- n nessy had in his first year in the new location football fans of the regi region n are in for a a a. mighty mighty interesting season |