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Show Page 3 e August 29, 979 1 Sporfstacular in By Bliss Fullmer A lot has been said of the inroads soccer has caused in little league football in Roy, but Roy Recreation records dispute the claim of a takeover by soccer. According to City Director, Frank Tremea, 324 boys signed up for football' this summer, and are now playing on eleven teams, with a twelth team waiting in the wings. Last year there were 334 boys assigned to twelve teams. I decided to conduct my own personal survey to determine the preference of little leaguers in the sports of football and soccer. I began my survey strictly from football rosters of the and ninety pound seventy-fiv- e football teams of the WFFL, but I discovered that very few of them had played soccer, last season. I then probed a couple of soccer teams to get a sampling of Soccer take over not probable players. At random, I selected seventeen boys, ranging in age from eight years to fourteen years of age. Eleven of the number are now playing football, and have never played soccer. Five of the six soccer players had not played football last year, but two of them were presently in football, and both listed football as their favorite sport. All eleven football players stated a preference for football. I spoke to sixteen mothers of the football and soccer athletes. Eleven of them would rather their sons play soccer, but the fathers favored football, twelve to five. Those who preferred soccer were asked to state two reasons for doing so. Three of them liked soccer over football because they were able to play more. Three cited parent preference for their reason for playing soccer, one because of friends, and one felt that football was too dangerous. Nine boys who preferred football, listed blocking and tackling as their main reason, five, because they liked to run with the ball, two because of their friends, two because of the uniforms they got to wear and one because his parents liked football. I posed one question, which read "IF ROY RECREATION HAD TO GIVE UP EITHER OR SOCCER FOOTBALL, WHICH WOULD YOU WANT TO KEEP? Thirteen of the boys voted for football. Another question read, "IF ROY RECREATION HAD ONE SOCCER FOR SEASON (SPRING) and one for football, (fall) would you play both? Eleven of the seventeen answered in the positive. (4 of the 6 soccer players wanted to play both). My sample, though small, supports the claim, Of Roy Recreation, that soccer did not hurt its WFFL football program. The great turnout for football this year is a tribute to a fine program run by Roy City. Other communities in both Davis and Weber County were really hammered by the soccer program, while Roy was able to hold its ground. This is not to say that Roy kids aren't taking to soccer, but they want both sports. There were a lot of soccer players running around Roy, last Spring, and there will be many more next Spring, but the with Weber County, is planning its own spring soccer league, similar to its baseball and basketball programs. The teams will compete by elementary grades, and play for County n championships in Cost for the program will be play. approximately $6 per boy or girl, but no uniform will be furnished. The U.Y.S.A. and A.Y.S.O. charge $14 which includes a reversible shirt for players. Frank Tremeas dream is to provide an eight week spring soccer season, which does not conflict with fall football., post-seaso- There are still a lot of unanswered questions from the soccer leagues, but the Weber County program is picking up support and momentum. There are a lot of boys who want to play both football and soccer in Roy and all of Weber County. football population dropped by only ten bodies this summer. Roy Recreation, in conjunction Get to know Big Sky Conference with Sportstecular Roy 2 Sportstacular will be dedicated to the coverage of Big Sky Conference sports and particularly Weber State. The following information might let our readers become more knowledgable about the Big Sky Conference.. The Big Sky Conference begins its 17th season of operation in 1979-8with Championships being decided in eight sports, including cross country football, wrestling, basketball, golf, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field. Eight schools are currently members of the league. Charter members of BSC, which is one of two major conferences located in the Rocky Mountain region, are the University of Idaho, Moscow; Idaho State University, Pocatello; the University of Montana, Missoula; Montana State University, Bozeman; Weber State College, Ogden, Utah. Boise State University, Flagstaff; joined the league on July 1. 1970. The conference has invited the University of Nevada at Reno to join the conference beginning with the 1979-8season. The conference has member schools in six states and covers more than 220,000 square miles (or almost l12th of the total square miles in the continental United States). The name Big Sky originated in a novel authored by A.B. (Bud) Guthrie of Great Falls, Mont, in 1947 entitled The Big Sky. Jack Hollowell, former Montana Advertising Director, promoted the Big Sky Theme for the Treasure State. Harry called for the Missildine of the Spokane Spokesman-Revieconference to be named "the Big Sky Conference in his column of Feb. 20, 1963. On Feb. 25, 1963, the conference name was adopted by the presidents of the newly formed league during a meeting in Spokane. Steve Belko, former head basketball coach at Idaho State and the University of university for sue seasons (1951-5is the conferences current Oregon for 15 seasons (1957-71- ), 2 record during commissioner. Belko, who compiled a his 21 seasons as a basketball coach with six Of his teams participating in NCAA post season play, succeeded John Roning as the BSC's third commissioner. if. ' 0 c , y, '' - a.1 vt't? 0 w 6) 288-26- Clearfield City sets baseball meeting On September 5th Clearfield City will hold it's first monthly meeting in preparation for the 1980 summer baseball program, it was announced today by the recreation program. The meeting is slated for 7 p.m. at the Clearfield City Municipal Building. Officials of the recreation program state that the meeting will be held to discuss progress and problems that summer baseball deals with. It was noted that these meetings will be open to the public. After the meeting on September 5th, the recreation department will hold similar met tings the first Wednesday of each r.wntn "TENNIS IS Bose, who Teurnome-it- berg won PRETTY MUCH A FAMR.Y AFFAIR soys Charles Fronberg (left) of Hill Air Force wih his son. Tom (right) won trophies (above) recently in the Ogden City Tennis . Tne Iwo eomed one Dwion e"d the elder Frontrophy it the Father-n-w-So- o"Cbr m h Mens sing5:, for n 45 onri over. |