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Show - l Home-and-Home Grid Plan Expected to Open Debates At 'Big Seven' Meeting DENVER, Dec. 3 (AP) Representatives of colleges making up the ""Big Seven" rnerhereToday,seeking an"bfficiaTTiame for Iheir new league and settlement of problems involving schedules. These seven seceded from the Rocky Mountain conference last May. after announcing their determination deter-mination to take tha step at the winter meeting in Salt Lake City a year agoA The five colleges which have declared de-clared their intentions of going ahead with athletics under the R M. C. banner also called their winter meeting hers for today and tomorrow. tomor-row. They will discuss a football schedule sched-ule for 1938 and also discuss the possibility of adding other colleges to their membership. Questions facing the "Big Seven" included: 1. Completion of a 1938 football schedule. 2. Approving a tentative 1939 grid achedule. 3. Home-and-home football games, especially involving Colorado and Denver universities. Ready for Basketball The "Big Seven" is ready to launch Its organization with the 1938 basketball season and already has drawn up a double round robin cage schedule, with each team playing the other six twice. The new league's regulations require re-quire that each team will meet its fellow members on the football field every season, thus assuring a title based on six games. Other rules provide each school must have- two or more home grid games each season and play at least two away from home, and must play at the home field of every other member at least once every five years. Colorado university officials were reported prepared to demand that their games with Denver university be alternated between Denver and Boulder each season. A Colorado-Denver game on Thanksgiving day has become an accepted tradition in the conference. The two schools already have arranged ar-ranged for their 1938 game, which will be played in Denver. Wyoming Vs. I'tah The 1938 grid achedule is complete, com-plete, at least tentatively, except that Wyoming and Utah have not yet agreed on a date. Another report heard today was that an effort will ba made to introduce in-troduce training tables for football players at the seven schools, which include Brigham Young, Colorado State and Utah State, in addition to those already named. A. C. Nelson of Denver university is president of the new circuit, Professor Pro-fessor A. N. Sorensen, Utah State, is vice president, and R. E. McWhin-nie. McWhin-nie. Wyoming, ia aecretary-trea-surcr. The schools left in the "Little Five" are Colorado college, Colorado Mines, Western State, Greeley State and Montana State, which is the defending conference basketball champion. |