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Show FRANK K. BAKER - ml3 TtlFCBAU i PORTS EDITOR. ., If Coach Ike Armstrong didn't accomplish anything! ' else by Friday's- speaking appearance before the junior chamber of commerce, it was a tip that folks shouldn't take themselves too seriously and get too excited about the importance im-portance of their own activities. In (act, the University of Utah mentor said so in his speech to the group which sponsored the Quarterback dub each Monday during the gridiron season Ike was invited to talk at the luncheon about the team's post season campaign in which it beat Hawaii, 14-13, at Honolulu nd walloped New Mexico university in the Sun bowl game, 26-0, at El Paso on January 2 when four other bowl games were in progress. Naturally Ike was looking through rose) colored glasses at be tat at the table musing about the way hit gridiron charge bad won the Big Seven championship and rolled up the most decisive victory of any of the New Year's day winner. win-ner. In fact, he wasn't mad at anybody. Hadn't hit football foot-ball proteget conducted themselves with high honor on the trip, reflecting credit ta themselves, to their coach and la the school they represented? In fact, he was sure everybody every-body in Utah wat elated at the way the 'Utet had performed U the pott season game. Musing to himself, Ike figured he could tell the assemblage as-semblage of how the boys had gone across the Rio Grande river for a brief excursion during their stay at El Paso and come back declaring they were happy to be Americans and enjoy the fine prospects they had here in their home surroundings. sur-roundings. Yes, and he could tell the boys how the team just kept On playing the same brand of football they had used in winning win-ning the Big Seven and run roughshod over the Lobos. He would be sure to stress the fact that the team had cooked up no new plays or tried to pull anything fancy on the Lobos; being content to play their usual brand of fundamentally funda-mentally sound football as he viewed it. He snapped out of hla muting with a start. The chap next ta him at the table was talking. Ik was apologetic at could bo. "What waa it you were saying?" he asked. . : "Oh," said bit neighbor. "I just wondered if you taw the Rose bowl gam Monday." Johnny Vander Meer of two-time, no-hit fame, la telling automobile In Patoraon, N. J. . . . and reported doing rather wall . . Harold Stassn, Minnesota's 31-year-old governor-elect, governor-elect, la a former captain and star of the University of Minnesota Min-nesota rifle team. Midwest talent scouts are Interested In Don Griffin, Chicago Fenger high backfielder, just as they were in Bill DeCorrevont , . . except that they'll have to wait another season . . . The rage ef Chlcago'g prep gridirons la only a junior . . Wallace Lawson'a point after touchdown which upset Texaa A. & M., 7-6, was the only successful conversion Texas made all year . . . Jack Char-behau, Char-behau, Detroit university quarterback, was on a train for the first time In hla life when the Titians traveled east for game with Boston college this fall. |