Show IT IT IS NO NOW UP Up TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS 1 Students Are Willing to Do to Their Share Toward Briny Briny- ing the Needed Spirit i HOW ABOUT ALUMNI All Seem eem Agreed at Least I That It Is Time to Come Back to Life By BILL YATES Now that the students of th the Lb University of Utah have answered I the board of regents in the tho I affirmative as to whether or not they desire a coach next year to toI I continue intercollegiate athletics will the board of regents come cometo cometo cometo to the assistance of the students and see that they are allowed to remedy on the east bench Or will the regents just juat let things ride along until intercollegiate intercollegiate inter collegiate athletics just naturally kick the bucket at the state te institution These are questions that are of vital importance at the present time That the students of the university do not feel they are getting all that cap be obtained from athletics and feel there is a missing milling link somewhere is evident from talks made at the Friday mass meeting by several prominent university men Henry Beal Seal president of the tho Barristers' Barristers club captain of the the- I 1915 basketball team and leading debater de di bater at the university opened up th fire with the tha declaration that intercollegiate intercollegiate inter inter- collegiate athletics should be abolished until such a time that the students students' should demand them Seals Seal's theme was taken up by lIari liar- liar 1 i old Haines who said that as long as I athletics continued as they were at th present time In the university it I would continue a dl disgrace grace to to eve every i student In the Institution lie He said that the fact that the coach was forced to resign because of the lack of I was the biggest knock a college colleg ever et I received t t. Ef i Steve Love I stepped l I with the declaration tIm tha y P r was to blame He lIe av aver t. t p most eyer every instance me l. l j faculty were blocking the in the university flu t dents for tor no other reason tt tl 1 they competed in athletics yie general feeling of theto the f to oppose athletics i I 1 wish to state th that t theT ther ther I I of the members of ot the j posed to athletics was the a af at ment made by Herman Hennan Wells Well dent of the student bod body This startling statement wa wai just after President J. J T. T Kin I had announced d himself as heart hart athletics and said he b be b every student should be compel compete In some branch of ath each one of his four years In colf 1 and that he receive some creditor credit V VIt It appears as though there is s sy tiring thing strangely amiss on the e eN bench and so long as the regents aK aF forking up a fat salary for a co coach iS every year It Is only just to the taxpayers taxpayers tax- tax 11 payers of the state that something iadone la Is ladone done to foster athletics among the stu dents The present manner In which athletics are being conducted on the east bench is surely killing them Inch by inch Could it be possible that the faculty with a a. majority of them against intercollegiate intercollegiate inter inter- collegiate competition are so 80 working things on the east bench that athletics will gradually die out From different rent remarks and observations observations gathered this year and the manner manner man man- ner nr In which faculty supervision controls controls controls con con- athletics at the state institution there may be more truth that fiction in answering the above question in the affirmative Co Coach ch Nelson Norgren has f fElt lt the tho hand of suppression from the faculty In his work He saw sawall all his efforts to arouse interest and spirit throttled and choked out The alumni has halll fallen away from the university To think that not one single old Utah athlete appeared at the university Friday to plead for tor the retention of or a coach and ana intercollegiate athletics athletics after after an an ani an of the mass meeting and its purpose was widely advertised 1 lithe li 11 the papers papers papers-Is is an out and out disgrace It is hard to think what would happen among the alumni of most any other university In the country if a similar crisis should arise there A set st of ot resolutions was wal passed but but not in their original form The resolutions resolutions reso reso- as drawn up declared that one aUe of the principal reasons why th the spirit was as lacking at the university t was that students had to sacrifice et everything if it if they wanted to make an an athletic team under Coach Norgren That this attitude had evidently come from a source that has has' been strangling athletics on the tIle cast bench bE was evident evIde from th the quick manner la in which the students wiped out this co con cort I 1 have ha competed in all aU four branches of athletics a at the University of for tor three years declared Lowell Lowll Rom Rom- ne ney a and all I ha have hae e sacrificed ha have been heen a few cigarettes and an hour or two a day at a It pool poo pool table I r agree agre that intercollegiate athletics should l be abolished and a dancing tt teacher Ver teacher Vernon Ver- Ver non Ca Castle Castle Castle-be be be hired b by tho the board of e Qt rEg regents Jim Lillie Lillic who has as been the frames little sticker stir on the tho football team for four tour y years n de declared laroo he ho was a a. senior engineer and had apt suffered in n scholastic work worl b because ause of or his football He made this statement In answer to an accusation by b- a n. student that hie hEL could not get out for fot football because Coach had hall told him h he ha wouldn't mal make Inake e the team It if he lie didn't Continued on page 2 2 i ITIS IT IS NOW UP TO Continued from page 1 l. report at 3 S o'clock in the afternoon and he lie o could not do this on n account it work l fA Steve Kerr came forth with a sensible sensible ble argument during which he attempted at attempted tempted to m make ke suggestions to rem d conditions He hit bit on the h b a a. when he be declared the management athletics at the university was in inefficient efficient and that the east bench bencher bencKen r should strive more systematically foi 0 J He also pointed out that the stu dents dents' do not have enough to do in th running of ot their athletics pointing oil u uth I Ithe th the the- manner in which athletics at St Stanford Stan ford California Washington and ott oUts large Western Vestern universities are unde und l i the control control of of the students 6 4 Kerr who is president of at the fresh fres freshman I man class also pointed out the nc nee flee l lof of ot a coach for tor the freshmen in all al ai branches of athletics and the need ip an alumni manager to handle athletics 5 The meeting brought out the tot tots disinterest of or the alumni as to whether er er or not hot athletics continued at h University of ot Utah a. a a feeling the students that they are not gettin all they should out of this import activity and the truth of the faculty attitude l e toward intercollegiate ath JB There is c certainly plenty of ot meat no noi for tor the regents to chew upon if it the toe desire to the give men men what men of ot other universities a ag g getting during their college careers caree |