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Show Early Y football was 'a fight ready to happen' By DICK HARMON Daily Herald Sports Editor BYl's first roots in football are torever tied to a hitler battle at the L in versus of Utah, a team which would become the Cougars" arclt-r- v .1 lor the rest of the century e most accounts of BYL' tooth.. .1 begin in ll'22. the story actually begins in the lWOs with a sport that had few rules and guidelines. In other words, it was a fight waning to break out. Because football in those di'vs was o rowdy and unorganized, mam stales banned it altogether Georgia. Kansas. W ..jusni!). Brutality ruled. This caught up with I'ngham Viang Academy loo. b According to rese.rJ ;! Mitchell in his Th' Forgotten Years." football begm ai BYU (Brighani Young Acadec in IN3 during a game with a Pi vo town team. An account in Mitch. M s book. tuotin'.' the Dail Lnquiyn n April 24. ISW reported: "The football game played by tne Provo and BYA teams on Saturday last was a spirited contest and resulted in a draw, each side scoring one. The strong wind which pi e ailed somewhat mitigated against o.d playing. The BYA boys were well marshaled by Captain Phillips but some of the boys were inclined do a little loo much running and hard work at the beginning and consequently became fagged out tvio.t the end of the game. "On the Provo team were several lads who had played the and knew what they before game were about. Provo was not as well and were however, captained, inclined to hunch together too much." Academy in Provo and the first meeting between these two schools took place in 18 during a field day experience which was switched to Salt Lake City instead of Provo. On April 6. a BYA team traveled to Salt Lake City to play the Utes. a leant w Inch had already been familiar with the rules. The BYA team got its hope this barbarism will not be indulged in at this institution (LDS college), for there is the greatest danger in its scuffling and fearful accidents will come of it. Then another evil, this college yell. I don't want to repress the exuberance of youth. Let them enjoy life, but there is an excess, and this yelling is unseemly. It is not in accordance with good taste, and rigid rules should be enforced to prevent it. - George Q. Cannon "1 Mitchell ton tlit game was more of a soclji a'ui Vtween two teams trying io leu n in play the i rules The Anencan game. the hioiball changed drastically final decade of the StIOs from e . to establishing a line of scrim nagc to scoring. The University of Utah began play in" form of ruuln football before the I stall when George Foot, a student irom Meeker. Colo., organized a team. This leant got special instruction from J O. Cross, of the Salt Lake City YMCA. For three weeks. Cross trained the BYA learn and football was introduced to Utah County. Planning and preparing for that first game with Utah. BYA players had to get permission slips from their parents. Mitchell reports the stor of one player. David Prior. Spanish Fork, who was forbidden by Ins parents from playing such a bruia! spun. His teammates traveled to Spanish and lobbied the parenu win finally gave in. Utah won that game 12-sconn" two touchdowns, and BYA's plawrs were left anxious for a rematch" the next fall. During that game a group ot "thugs" approached the field ami started a fight with the several hundred Academy fans w ho were blow me horns and w aving blue and white flaus. According to an article in the Chronicle. ' Afterward, the hoodlums looked like they had been through a sausage mill." Members of that first Academv team included Nephi Otteson. Allien H. Chrislenson. Thomas Amos Peter Hans Paulsen. Fielding. Wallace Owen Bunting. David Prior. Joseph M. Hanson, a Magelby Heher Larson. Timothy Cook Hoyt. George Foote. and Benjamin Carlos Call. The next fall Utah defeated BYl 0 in the second meeting. Four BYA players were injured. In a meeting oi the LDS College anniversary No 15. George Q. Cannon of the LDS First Presidency spoke and took his eat. then stood up again with a warning: "I refer to the rugby game, this 4. 6-- (See FOOTBALL, Page 81) BERGMANN HEATING & AC Doing business for over 25 YEARS Call Roger Reeve for all your heating and cooling needs The total home comfort system High Eff . Furnaces High Eff. Air Conditioning Electronic Air Filters NATURAL -- BY KflVJ Humidifiers Programmable Thermostats Custom Installation F DESIGN CALL NOW M niiiiirf''" 225-462- 2 Get comfortable with The Inside Guys HERBERT BERGMANN, OWNER 250 SOUTH MOUNTAINLANDS DRIVE OREM, UTAH &4058 |