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Show WAR INJECTS NEW LIFE INTO ATHLETIC SPORTS Athletics at the University of Utah is going to be greatly revived as a result of the war declares Couch Fitz-patrick, Fitz-patrick, after watching the large number of men come out for basketball. basket-ball. He explains it this way: "At all the training camps thruout the United States, athletic games have played a prominent part in the preparation of our men for buttle. Expert Ex-pert men have been hired by the government gov-ernment to bundle athletic work at the various places, and the purticipa lion in the work wus compulsory. "Over ninety per cent of the Utah college men have been enguged in the war and consequently have taken a part in some form of athletic work. They have learned to play the games and realized the benefit to be gained. "This years basket ball squud is the lurgest one in the history of the institution. in-stitution. The men have come back from the training camps and army life eager to continue the athletic work in which the war has caused them to become interested." |