Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 14 | "Frosty" Peters Chilled the Boys Story is out How He Got Name

FROSTY PETERS CHILLED THE TE BOYS i i i i IS S OUT liE IE GOT NAME BILLINGS Mont 1 Nov Kov 13 AP The The origin of Frosty Peters' Peters cognomen is out Peters heralded as a fIttIng successor successor successor suc suc- suc- suc cessor for Red fled Grange at the University of Illnois Illinois Illinois Illi Illi- Ill Ill- 4 nois is Js listed In Inthe inthe the class rooms as Forrest Pe- Pe e In the sporting p pages a age g e s sc c- c s the Montana mercury mercury mercury mer mer- cury the football player who a as a member r of the therise h I Montana State Stat e I college team In 1924 sent seventeen dropkicks sailing sailing sailing sail sail- ing through the cross bars thus establishing an time all record that probably will never never be approached Frosty earned his nickname one cold October afternoon when he had literally frozen a rival team out of its chance to gain a sectional football championship by his kicking kick kick- ing 7 that kept the opposing eleven cleven clutching at his Ills punts with benum benumbed benumbed be be- num numbed ed fingers The dropkick by which Peters beat the University of Pennsylvania on nn October 10 0 at Champaign was tile the s symbol of a boyish athletic am air air- His evolution as a toot toot- football ball hero began in 1920 while a student of the Billings high school Too light to be admitted to the regular squad Frosty became a persistent camp follower of the team and hovered on the sidelines Many days das he practiced dropkick dropkick- Ing irig until darkness settled over ovel the field Athletics have done more than give fame to the Montana 1 Mercury l They have built up out of oC a frail boy a husky youth Peters now weighs pounds WhILe a lL specialist at Peters also is an actor in athletic repertoire Summering in his native state he trains regularly on track truck with the lie Javelin discus shot and other properties of the drama of He courts the crown of dec on the track and antI field as well as football eminence