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Show Granite, Jordan, Davis May Join Big Four Loop; Adams Again Named Prexy A threatened "split-up' having been averted after long, healed discussion Friday evening at the organization'! annual meeting, meet-ing, the Utah High School Athletic association will continue (or gome time at least to regulate the athletic activities of 75 of Utah's 79 schools as in the past year. The much discussed formation of a Big Seven, with Granite, Davis and Jordan withdrawing from the lists group to Join Olden and th three Salt Lake City schools in their present independent association, asso-ciation, failed to materialize Friday because leaders' of the move were un-ible un-ible to contact Dr. U John Nuttall lr., superintendent of Salt Lake City schools. A reorganlsa-ion, reorganlsa-ion, however, teems inevitable n the near future. H. R. Adams Small schools are disssatlsfied with the present football setup: President H. R. Adams of the state group would like to have the Big Four members back with a suitable alignment align-ment of. strength: Davis, Granite and Jordan would continue other sports in the state group, but would compete with Big Four members in football, and students and players of the Big Four would like a chance at atate laurels. Leaders Dissatisfied Leaders at Jordan. Davit and Granite .expressed dissatisfaction with the present football setup, which has placed those schools in an "A" conference because of school population with Provo and Carbon. These five schools have competed in nonleague football games for several sev-eral years, but the new league system, sys-tem, which has broken up traditional tradition-al rivalry between schools of the Jordan district, does not please the three big schools of this district. Members of the state association have been forbidden any athletic competition with nonmembera. and the three dissatisfied schools are unwilling un-willing to give up their chance to play for the state championships. Should these three schools withdraw with-draw from the state group, however, how-ever, a reorganization of the association asso-ciation would certainly follow. The Big Four schools, with Granite, Davis Da-vis and Jordan, constitute more than one-half the high school population of the state. Four Win Title Jordan has won the state football title twice in the past three years; Davis won the basketball crown this year after Granite had held the top three times in four years Jordan being the other winner during that period, and Provo has dominated in track for the past three years. A tentative -suggestion to invite the Big Four member schools to again join the U. H. S. A. A., to compete with Jordan, Granite, Carbon, Car-bon, Davis and Provo In a Big Ten, is thought by state prep leaders to be the solution of the problem. The first open rift between the leaders came when a rule to ban spring football and prolonged preseason pre-season basketball practice was discussed dis-cussed at length. The proposed rulr was voted down by a slender mac-gin mac-gin after a heated argument between be-tween leaders of outstanding football foot-ball schools and the proponent of the ban. Adams was reelected president of the association and A. M. Maughan was reelected vice president |