Show i TALKING IT OVER OVERBy J By y BILL JOHNSTON Comes now the time that tries sportswriters sportswriters' souls and sends an ordinary newspaper scribe hitting for the tall timber wearing a false mustache and trying to look sane sanc its it's the time when us newsboys climb way out on an overcrowded limb and pick an state all-state football team Weve We've been given i en the thc task of picking the cla class g A stalwarts and wed we'd rather be picking bathing bathIng bathIng bath- bath Ing beauties back at Atlantic City Come to think about it its it's a 8 bit hit similar to picking a 8 winner at a beauty contest No matter how ya pick cm em there Is sure to be someone who thinks e 8 got rocks in your our head There ml might ht even en be more than one Were We're telling all of you fans here and now that the team we pick is in our estimation the best bunch of lads weve we've seen in our travels around and about the state Weve We've been on the sidelines at least once for games involving every team in the Big Eight weve we've seen four teams in Region one and our operatives have kept us posted on the happenings down Carbon county way So heres here's the scoop First Team Blues' Blues There are arc only 11 places on the first team We Ve all know that there are more than 11 great high school I ball players in the state of Utah and we also know they cant can't all allbe allbe allbe be on the first team Therefore the distinguishing line between the firs first and second team learn will be infinitesimal and the third team isn't far behind Naturally a 8 team like Jordan high with an unbeaten record under It its belt will m be given i en more positions than a team that finishes finishes fin fin- third fourth or fifth in Its league Then too we take into consideration the worth an any anyone anyone one player was to his ball club If a team tam looks era a average o week after week ck and one ball hall pla player er er provides pro the spark that enables the squad to look great he is in our estimation an all Speaking Speaking- conversely there are three or four kids throughout the state who in spite of being with witha a bad ball club still manage to show up head and shoulders above the rest of the kids on his team and the rest of the league After talking with a great majority of the prep coaches many of the fans and comparing notes with men who have been watching the preps in action for many years weve we've come to the conclusion that 1918 is distinctive in that there arc are so many great backfield men running around The line play lay has been good true but its it's those lads with the churning churning churning churn churn- ing legs who have a Ve captured the fancy of the fans I 15 Standout Backs Well We'll bet that the three college I coaches in the state and many of the coaches in the surrounding states would give a months month's pay to have any anyone one of 15 backs enroll enroll enroll en en- roll at their schools come September Septem Septem- ber 1949 With that idea in mind our backfield selections will be made on that basis the college future in store for the prep players play play- ers The Telegram had a fine record last year ear in that a goodly percentage of the Telegrams Telegram's state all-state first team have enrolled enrolled en en- rolled roIled In colleges and are now making names for themselves on frosh ball clubs We Ve sincerely hope that the situation will ill be dittoed this year There are 15 class A schools Inthe in inthe inthe the state and only 11 first team berths to fill Naturally a team firmly entrenched in the basement of its respective league wont won't have too many kids on the first threeS three teams Possibly many of the kids who will miss spots on the select ball baIl club would have made the team had they been playing elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere else else- where behind a good line etc Well Vell dont don't say we didn't warn ya and when the selections come out next Monday in the Telegram dont don't throw up your hands and say The guys guy's completely off oft his nut No one will argue that point with you in the first place and andin andin andin in the second place weve we've all got gota a right to our own opinion The state all team will be in our opinion the 11 b best st kids We hope it will be the same in yours |