Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-01-14 | Page 7 | Former U. of U. Grid Mentor is Official for Coast Games

WHERE, ARE THEY NOW? Former U. of U. Grid Mentor Is Official for Coast Games r 1 - ! M- 1 ; J ! I MMt Natot Weave are ear swart tTtaaaa aaa) Halt Lakers ara aialiiaS as te faev in a i is af aaa warta. Owe ji iaiaiia awally. eftee hi Mm laaal Mali i nil aave siai farwarS la aaara piaiaa mil AeMs af aaiiaiar. Saaaa anas bare Si iiepuS tram Mm I pn tare, Tae IWtram. la a eerlee af actlilll. wi streak Ks laaiiii' m in nlii. By MORRIS GCSS Ensrgetie Tommy Vitspa trick, former Utah university football coach, now a leading Pacific coast grid official and high school athletic ath-letic coach. Uvea for tha day when his son. Tommy Jr., will wear tha moleskins of Notre Dams la a "big" gams. Already enrolled at tho school which the Immortal Knute Rockne made famous, young Tommy has until 1M1 to "make good for his old man." Left la 1M4 Tommy Ft tspa trick reigned at the U. of U. for seven years until 1924, when he was succeeded by Ike J. Armstrong. In those days he coached football, foot-ball, basketball, baseball, track, swimming, tennis, golf, and even you gueeeed It! horseshoes. The university didn't allow very much money for athletic coaching activities, activi-ties, and so Tommy, because of bis Intense love of sports, undertook tha various duties of all round coach. There was ae modem football stadium, either. Instead, Fitspat-rick-eoached football teams fought It out with other conference teams on tha sod of Curamlnga field. Utah teams made commendable showings during his regime. Since leaving Utah ho has become be-come one of tha most popular gridiron grid-iron officials on tho Pacifio coast Ha also has hung up a fins record TOMMY nTZPATRICK Tenng Tommy has until lMI, coaching Roosevelt high school at Oakland. Ha "worked" 14 games last falL Aa a sideline, assertedly mora lucrative, ha manages the Roosevelt Roose-velt hotel In Oakland. The entire Fltspatrlck family visited with his sister. Mrs. Edgar A. Leupold, 141T Michigan avenue, last summer.