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Show U.S.MILITARYIN ' HAVE A FINAL SAY ON GRIDIRON GAME i IN UTAH COLLEGES If Tney favor Football as J Part of Military Training, ! Game Will Be Played at ' University and A. C By W. D. B. WARTIME football in Utah, as well aa in other states of the Union, has rtnolved it1f into a question of what the army men, who will be in charge, have in store for ut. Whether or not we will have football worthy of the name ia strictly p to theae men, : in other worda.. Thla ho boon mada claar by Dr. I It W. Wilbur, proaldant of Ht an ford 1 untvoralty la California, who la ra- j j glonol d I roc tor of tha at u dent train- . Ing eorpa of tha atataa of I'tah, Call- , fornla and Nevada. Dr. Wilbur aa ro- clonal director Cor thla atata haa wnt lottara to all eollogea In I'tah that will hava military training, oottlng , forth tha rondltlona under which men : will bo on tared Into tho aervlca, and , ha covero tha athletic faatura In tha , following paragraph: -tt ta agroed that athietla toorta ara tw wo ancaw raged within each Institution Insti-tution and among neighboring Inetl. - tut leos in eases in which tha d.stancea aro aa short aa ta neceaaitate no interruption in-terruption of tha weemy achoduia of aaodemia and military training. Ath-letls Ath-letls aporta aa formerly py rawed. Involving In-volving aatanalva tripa and apoaial-lied apoaial-lied training, aro Incanstatant with the sol tier 'a program of drill and atudy. Every mala etudent over It years of ago at tha eollogea which hava military training, and who can paaa tha physical testa, will be under military discipline. Ha muat put In olaven hour each week on military work, and In addition muat get In forty-two hour a aach week In hit regular coJIece atudlet, ao that he will not hava much Vme to devote to football or athletics of any other natura, U TO OFFICtftS. U la plainly evident, therefore, that If the military officer In charge at a col-leco col-leco ks a leaning toward football tho boy a will probably play tho came and hava a varsity eleven. If, on tho other hand, ha la not a football enihusiaat and decides that tha boy a ahould put tn all of their oleven houra a week at military training, thera will be little or no tlma lat for tha eollega gama thla fall. whether or not We hava any real college col-lege football ln,4hla ttate, therefore, depends de-pends entirely upon how Colonel Wright. In charga at tha Unlveralty of I'tah, and Captain Albert of tha Utah Agricultural oollege fool about It. . NO LONG Tftla. Tola ona thing la aura and cart a In, thor will be no long tripe In atora for college football teams anywhere. Oamea will be permitted only whera tha athletea find It poaalhla to return to aehool Immediately Im-mediately following the gama ton tha aame day), if t'lah haa any college football at all. then. It will hava to be between tea ma within the atata. Tha atudenia and men formerly at tha helm of athletli-a at tha atata unlveralty and -tha loe;an Agricultural eollega have derided that thay want football, but If Cutanel Wright and Captain Albert aay "no," then thera will ba no football, be-causa be-causa ovary boy at tha achoola. above tht aga of II and physically sound, will ba under tht oommand of theae off Ice re, and tha otheu would not maka Ideal football matarl. In tha event that tha army men do Pirmlt football hero, the oamea be I ween lab, A. . B. Y. IT, and Kt. Iou!aa might prove mighty Inlereatlng. tiome-thiog tiome-thiog definite on tna aubject will probably prob-ably be announced In tha near future. COACMBa TAKB BACK a SAT. Tha preeent athietla coachea will alao find that thay will hava to taka a back eat If It la decided to play football. They will ba relegated to aacond place, for tha army man will ba tho boss at aach school. Tho coach muat taka hla ordera from tha army officer, juat aa If ha might bo ona of tho etudent e, s Thera la alao thla phaae, which may not tond to maka for a big year In foot-ball foot-ball A lot of tha young men who will attend tha different eollegea will be so buey In their of forts to land a com mission mis-sion that they will not permit football or anything elea to divert thalr mlnda from t ha ma I n object, a nd t hoao w ho would ordinarily try for football may got their fill of exerclaa In the eleven houra of military training, ao tho proapocta for atrong taama thla year cannot be termed any too bright. Tho army and navy encourage football tn thalr training cam pa, Juat aa they do boxing, wraatllng and many other forma of aport, but thaaa college training camps will taka on a different aspect. The tlma of tha atudenta will be taken up with- military training and the regular oourao studies, and the boy a may want to root when they hava tha ohanoa. Wa ll wait and eee. WASHINGTON. Oct. t Motion picture pic-ture t heat ret la all parts of tha country art, pledging theme) vet to turn over 10 per oent of their groea receipt a on ona day aach month for tha purchaaa of "smlleege books" or tlcketa to theatrical performanoea In Camp Liberty theatres. Thla arrangement la to continue for tha duration of tho war. In ao far aa possible possi-ble the "am Usage book a" will ba aupplied to -ooldlers of those atatee and cltiea from which the money Is sent. j |