Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 28 | Prexy Thomas Honors Utes; Gunn Wins Scholar Award

He's Going to Captain Redskins Karl Schleckman . . . This 215-pound Jackie should prove capable leader to University of Utah gridders next falL Prexy Thomas Honors Utes; Gunn Wins Scholar Award Big Karl Schleckman, who has a milking chore to do each day before school, is Utah's 1937 football captain. He succeeds Newell CalL sliDDerv little Quarterback. The 218-pound tackle was elected Monday night by 29 gridiron letter men at the annual banauet given by President George Thomas for the letter winners win-ners in all sports at the university. Other candidates were Paul Me-Donough, Me-Donough, end, and Ray Atkinson, guard. Schleckman gained all-confer- ' ence honors in ' 1938 on practically every mythical j team picked In j thie region. He i was also given I think he'll ever join the professional ranks. A member of the school of education, he hopea some day to become be-come a physical education director. In addition to piloting the Redskin Red-skin team to a conference championship, cham-pionship, Karl's biggest ambition now is to some day fulfill a mission for the L. D. S. church. Meehaa Honored Dewey Gunn, tackle, was awarded the 1938 football plaque for the highest scholarship of any gridder. Gunn, a sophomore, had better than a B average. Milton Mecham was given 2000 pennies in honor of the first "blessed event" in bis family, which occurred oc-curred last week. Yes, it's a boy. The gridders all contributed to a fund for Milt D. H. Chrlstensen, a member -of the board of regents, spoke briefly on sportsmanship. Other brief talks were made by Professor Walter A. Kerr, Dr. Thomas, Coach Ike Armstrong Arm-strong and Assistant Coaches Pete Couch, Jack Barnes, Vadal Peterson Peter-son and Swimming Director Charlie Welch. Approximately 100 letter men attended at-tended the fete. Honorable mention Mecham on a number of all-America elevens. He is a former star at Granite, where he won all-state honors for two years. "Slack," as be la best known on the Ute campus, lives in Taylors-ville Taylors-ville and commutes daily from there to the university. "Milking cows," he aays, "is just part of my daily chores at home." Has Big Appetite The captain-elect has a prodigious appetite, but admits he did more eating eat-ing on the 1938 Honolulu football trip than ever in his life. Give Karl a T-bone steak (a man-sized one) with all the trimmings, and he'll be happy as a lark. Schleckman Is a wrestler of more than average ability, but doesn't