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Show BEtililOlI IS CONFIDENT OHICTORY "IT Coach Says He Will Have Bunch Winning Warriors. TRAINING CAMP AT SARATOGA SPRINGS Schedule Calls for Series of , Most Interesting Games. Although the general opinion is that the university will be weak this fall n the gridiron. Coach Bennion has aa altogether different opinion on the mat-' mat-' ter. BeiinloTi li Mtretnely ' oplliuisti regarding his ehancea with the teams of the intermountain region and Is wearing "smiles that won't come off." The Joes ef rack men as "Tiny Bill" Holmes, Benny Grant. Henry Richard-son Richard-son and other veterans gives one as idea that there ia bo hope left, but Coaek Bennion declares there is "all the chance in the world" and ia going ,. at it right. Next week he will gather together all men who look promising to compete for places on the eleven and migrate to the ahores of Utah lake, and he says he will return at the opening of the university with a squsd of gridiron grid-iron men in tip top shape and excellent excel-lent condition to commence scrimmage work signal practice. Saratoga Springe, the place chosen for the football encampment, Is an ideal place to put ia the preliminary work for a football season. It ia on the shores of Utah lake and the boys eaa feel that they are enjoying life rather thaa falling into "dumps 'over the thoughts of giving up part of their vacation to the hard toil which ia the butt of gridiron suceesa. Tents will be tarken along to live ia aad an excel-' excel-' lent eook of Lehi fame haa been secured se-cured to kandle the appetitee of the men. Dr. Jakob Bolia will be on hand to assist Coach Bennion in caring for the members of the squad, who would soon become fat and rosr if It were xtot for the exercise that will be dished ut dallv. A eold dnek in the lake' will be taken twice a day and a dip in the hot springe ia the afternoon will soak ut the sore epota. Coach Bennlen Is willing to gamble that he will hit Salt Lake with a bunch of men ia prime condition and hard enough to stand the amaahea of almost any eleven In the country. About twenty -five mea plan to take the trip. The early work will consist of fall-1 Ing on the ball, punting nnd passing. I A tackling dummy will be installed and muck stress will be put on thia part of the game. Coach Bennion declares that last fall the greatest fault of his team waa ia tackling and handling the ball, aad he hopes to remedy that fault before ever being seen oa the east bench with his men. The coach will else figure out most of his plavs while at Saratoga Springs and will hare them and the signals all taught to his men, so that no time will be wasted when the active work commences. com-mences. The coach also hopes that by the 1 time the outing on t'tah lake ia over . ' there will be a brotherly feeling among all the eaadidates, and the green mea will have all become acquainted and o wrangling aor envioui feeling will exist. Wall Known Flayers. Most of the green mea who will be seen nt the aniversitr this fall are well kaowa la football circles of this state. Maav played oa the freshmea team last fall, and prior to that were active in scholastic football and arc fully la touch with the game. Many are stars of the elasa games who feel capable of clashing honors with any of them and look mighty good to the coach. Owing to the freshmen rule, one of the men who enter the university univer-sity for the flrst time this fall will be allowed to play oa the flrst team, but will compete for the freshmen eleven, which will be included In the schedule of the high schools of the state. 'The new rule book has been snuiled to all members of the first squad who have signed to take the trip to Saratoga Springs, and classes will be bold during the day under Coach Bra ioal direction, when the rules will be studied and all doubtful points debated. de-bated. The men included in the ones air camp oa the ahorea of Utah lake, and the positions they will compete for, are ae follows: Paul, center; Mvres, end; Hnmptoa. tackle: Wimmer, guard; Kirby, tackle; Dillmaa. tackle: Rriner-soa. Rriner-soa. end; Hamilton, end; Sutherland, halfback; Askton, fullback; Kerriek, halfback: aU of laat fall's freshmen team: Captain Laua Romner, halfback; half-back; Otto Romney, quarterback; Dean, end; Dee Bennion, end; Sam Olsea, tackle: all old "U." men. Tommy Piti-fsstrick, Piti-fsstrick, quarterback, and Pratt," who plsrved guard on the eeeoad team two yearn ago, looks like lucky eatehea aad are both eligible men of note. Pete Peterson, who ahined in the Colorado school of mines game last fall natil he sprained his ankle, looks like one of the strong men for aa end position posi-tion thie year. The men from the class teams who will compete for places are as follows: Eriekaoa. Holmstead. Evaoa, Young aad Winlerniz for ends aad halfback post l ions, and Lang-green, who won the heavy weight championship champion-ship of the university last winter; Banning, Dismore aad Moroni Olsen for the line. . Olsen Stags ttrack. Moroni Olsen is a 115-pounder who stands 6 feet 3 inchea nnd has the ap- pears DCS of a wonderful football player. bnt he. much to Coach Bennion 'a disgust , and regret, hns fallen for the stage craze and ia working with former Professor Butler of the University of Ctsh and company en ' a plavlet for the Orpheus Or-pheus circuit. Ne bad luck is wished this rompaev ef young I'Lahns, but it is felt that it would be fine to see Mo-toai Mo-toai decorated ia the gridiron egli- gee aa a football hero, rather thaa beaming behind the footlights as "the one wonderful" matioee idol. Count Christiansen, who hns the reputation rep-utation of never having broken the slightest rule governing the gama of football during bis three vears at guard nailer the crimson colors, has takea up the vocation of school mnster aad will hence he addressed as sneh in the mining metropolis of Park City. His like will be hard to And. The first practice game for the university uni-versity will be with the fast Ogden high school football team that has beec in shape all summer, on the 29th of September en Cummings field. As the season will open for the university gridiron men October 7 in Salt Lake, when the Colorado aggies will be taken on. Coach Benaion needs all the time possible, and no loafing will be tolerated toler-ated this season. One of the beet schedules ever arranged ar-ranged for a football team at the university uni-versity has been arranged, nnd eight hard games will be nlaved, with but one Saturday off, dnring the lull season. sea-son. Five games will be played In 8a It Lake Citv, the last one being with the rniversity of Idaho on Thanksgiving day. Two years ago the two institutions institu-tions played a no score gama in a foot of snow and both nre itching for another an-other game. This game promises to be the topnotrher of the season nnd one that will be remembered in the football annals of Utah as a fight from beginning to end. Three trips will be taken to Colorado Colo-rado this fall aad Coach Bennion can see nothing but three scalps to bring home, as a Viah team has never yet been nble to bring back the bacon from n Colorado town. It is believed to be about time for some victories, nccord-ing nccord-ing to the coach and several of the older men in the game. The prospects for another invincible freshmen fenm nre good ngaia this year. Several men from the local high school will be in its ranks this fall and also many from neighboring . schools thst have been prominent in football for the past few vears. No mea will leave the Ogden high school this fall, which makes that school agaia.a strong competitor for the state championship. Assistant Manager Frank Cameron has arranged a strong schedule for his eleven. Two game have been signed with Ogden high school, one each with Grnnite sad Jordan high schools and the prospects are bright for two games with the Bait Lake high school |