Show bat out state that strict adherence to rules made necessary barring of moab team when price complained while the utah high school ath me association regretted very much ia to bk take uch such action a strict adherence to the nilea rules of the organization made it necessary to declare the moab football team ineligible to play in the itt state tournament when the principal of the carbon county high school complained that the moab team had not received its it eligibility card cards ac cording to a statement made by chairman chalman moss and arbiter ashton of the AI association to C A robertson president of the grand county board of education at salt lake city yes yea cerday mr robertson Robe riton who is in salt lake on legal business called on the association officials to learn just why the moab team wa was outlawed and prohibited from representing eastern utah in the tourney after it had defeated carbon county for the division championship tro the result of mr conference rl with the athletic association officials Is told in the following telegram received from bimby by the 0 rimes independent yesterday aei saw moss voss and ana ashton they represent it there was no disqualification or rf of team but by ironclad rule of asi 1 ITI ocia tion learn ineligible to play any RAS same game until players registered they M laim claim rules rulef place plate whole responsibility le of proper registration on a coach of f school br manager of team moss j rhe praised fine showing made y moab all ind and expressed regret that in interest gh cf ef association discipline the failure i na to comply with rules be I 1 en waived when matter was called to at J association answered our wires by letter my judgment he was em sincere and acted according to rules na reeves made complaint on information ant given him by evans that registration iry cards not received moss says an m any event sanpete would have demanded to see certificate of registration before moab game played and ded would have claimed game on oi the ineligibility moral la Is get team registered a d next time and the athletic officials apparently did not explain why the association failed to send the local school the proper blanks on which to make certification of eligibility of players when the proper blanks did not arrive coach evans made certification on last years blanks these were held by the association secretary for two weeks and were then returned irith with the request that they be copied onto the proper blanks eight of which were ere there was not chent time to get these proper blanks back to the association before the st aate for the elimination games gamest although they were sent as soon as r re although chairman moss advised mr robertson that the association bad had replied to telegrams of protest with a letter such a letter baa hu not been received here the tel lei tram from mr robertson Roberts bit yesterday was aa the first word received here ex pinning why the local team was ruled Meli eligible gible it Is very evident that no question aru u raised as to the qualifications of ity 7 of the individual pl players ayerst the outlaw ruling applying to the entire team because it had bad not been is sued ed certification cards last weeks met sun giving an account of the price games stated thai that in the eding contest moab played a num ter r of men who were above the age bait and even played some men who awe were not high school students at all just st who gave ibis this surprising anfor illation to the sun is not known it 1 not conceivable that any person T reeled with the price school would ave e had bad the audacity to make such 1 1 statement as every member of the moab iol team which participated in the ding ng game has been and is a bona fae student and not a single man is er or nineteen in fact facts the bulk of the tetra tam averaged considerably less than hacen n years of age the team that idea seated ted price to in the final game came was e I 1 identical team that had played all on and coach and team know this the affair is most unfortunate as oab had a brilliant chance to make 4 enviable thawing in the bourna ment price the second team in this division was a awa warded ded he elimina tion lion game with richfield two games were necessary to decide the outcome the richfield and price teams ying lying in the farat contest and richfield win aing thi next day by a 10 6 score moab easily defeated price by a score of 16 6 and from all the dope would have eliminated richfield q ihle his would have given the local team test a chance in the semifinals with granite high school at salt lake city tomo tomorrow As was surmised the price high ligh school principal earned carried the complaint of moab alleged ineligibility to the athletic board of which he is a member and he was responsible for the local team being ruled out and price being substituted in its place it is a source of wonder that carbon high after being defeated so by a chool school of about one fifth its size would nevertheless hiye haye th the e poor sportsmanship to claim game on such a technical showing the whole affair will serve to prevent similar situations if Is the future fatum the next time price keeps moab of a state athletic tournament be because price has a better team I 1 something she never has bad had to date |