Show A ATHLETICS l J TWELVE TO FOUR q M f To This Time the Provo Giants Go Down The boys from the Brigham Young Academy will resume their studies this morning with a considerable amount less lessof lessof lessof of confidence than they had last Monday Sixteen husky lads who had been under careful training raining by J. J O. O Cross of the Y M. M C. C A. A for the past three weeks trotted out on the gridiron with all the sang frond imaginable but hut at the end of the contest the sang was very much in evidence while the froid had disappeared After the games during the holidays our team disbanded and football was laid on the shelf until next fall but the Provo boys were so very anxious to have havea a game that we could do no less than accommodate accommodate them The weather was was quite warm an and the field exceedingly dusty which made it rather unpleasant for the participants Among the spectators spectators spectators tors red and white flags floated floate everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where but the blue and white of the B B. Y A. A was not lacking and the horns of the Provo contingent kept up a continuous ous din The teams lined up as follows U. U of U. U B. B Y A. A Larson fi C. C H Poulsen I R. R R-G- R G. G Bunting Jeppson 1 V i- i I 1 L Robison L L. G. G Fielding E. E W. W Stringfellow w R. R T. T D. D Pryor Langlois L. L T. T Christensen Kimball R. R E. E Hansen Peck L. L E. E Varian Vanan Q B B. B Capt Magleby E. E Van Colt R R. R H. H Larson Capt J. J W. W L. L H. H 1 J Call Hoyt Foote J Ensign C. C F. F D B B. j I Hinckley Magleby won the toss choosing the east goal giving his opponents the ball Ensign gave his leg an extra push and sent the leather to within twenty yards of the goal The Provo boys with their immense weight in their favor began bucking the theline line the left tackle being the objective point They were making slow but sure gains when the signal for foran foran an end nd run came but the runner was nabbed by Robison so su quickly that he looked around to see where he was at On the next play the ball bal was fumbled and find Joe Stringfellow seeing an opening big enough to let him through fell on the oval B Before fore Magleby's men had time to get get- the get the dust out of their eyes Peak eak at left end had been g given ven the balland ball balland and was as te tearing ring around the rig right t end at atan atan att attan t tan an awful clip clip- making a a. fo forty yard rd run V Van n Cott was given giyen the ball bal but as ls he had forgotten n to put mucilage on his fingers the ball took a fl shot e earthward rth ward with a Pr in full pursuit t. t The Provo bac backs s f failed ih d to interpret the signal signa and the quarter back k was forced forward with With the the ball 0 for which h Referee Price gave i it t to the University Peak was given the ball again and as f the opponents were not where they should have have been he had an easy w walk lk over to o t the e. e goal line II Sunshine kick kicked dl a adif adi difficult ii- ii I cult u t. t goal and six points were put down downto to our cr credit dit Ensign got the ball on Provos Provo's kick kickoff kickoff kickoff off and in the course of his wa wanderings looking for a soft place t to fall he found himself face fac to face with Hoyt Ensign didn't do a thi think thing but gave him a beautiful straight arm and Hoyt 1 was forced to leave the game Call taking his his place J. J Stringfellow was sent around the end for twenty yards ards arid and then Pe Peak k lost the ball Provo stuck to their bucking bucking tactics and had forced the ball to within with with- in three yards of the line when Varian saw a stray pigskin and picked 1 it t up but Referee Price gave it back to Provo 0 Peak having been side off-side when the ball went in Larson was given the theoval oval and was beautifully carried over the line by the ton or so of Provo pushers b behind behind be be- hind him Foote made a try at goal but the ball found the ladies on the side Ii lines nes more attractive than the space behind behind be be- be hind the posts and took a t trip ip over over in their midst In the second half Van Cott brought brough t the ball back to the center on Provos Provo's off kick-off and then for four consecutive times the ball changed hands each side losing it twice on downs With nineteen yards to gain and the last down punted and when the ball stopped it was on the yard ten-yard line Provo failed to make the necessary five yards and a a moment later Stringfellow was across the goal line hanging on t to the ball l like ke grim death Once mo more e our ur U little le fullback full fullback full full- back found the space between bet the posts wide enough h and and sent ent th the leather leathe over the bar From then on to the end the the ball was kept n near ar the center line the l e only brilliant play being a gain of twenty yards by Ensign on on a feint int kick and the whistle sounded with the ball in our possession po J. J 1 j 1 Jeppson eppson made one o of the finest tackles tackles tack tack- les es of the day r II j jHarry Harry Kimball is is' without do doubt bt the fin finest st end in the Estate Mate He r wa vas s 's I j just st where he should be every time and his tackles were were too numerous numerous to keep count of I Wh What What quality quality t Coacher Cross could see in Foote for a full-back full was not made apparent by his playing payin He may do for fora a guard but he will ne never e make make a full full- back Call who took his place toward the end of the game should have been een put t there ere large i ira ily the he beginning He e is o only Iy half as large but but There is considerable good material I in the B. B Y team team L l Larson the right- right half did yoeman service and M Magleby played played a fairly g good od game They had the tandem buck down downto to a pretty fina n point but the ends were not on to their jobs Price Price as i referee referee Prof Smith of the High School as umpire Mort Allen J and J. J T. T Axt Axton n as linesmen constituted as fair a set of o officials as could be found The north side fence proved to be bea a delusion It was broken down in less than fifteen minutes after the game started Nothing short of a line of bayonets bayonets bayonets bayo bayo- nets would suffice to keep back so some e of the toughs who are always in evidence The fight which occurred during the game is a disgraceful affair that I would say nothing about were it not that it created so much comment and calls for some ome explanation A ga gang gang g of toughs whose proper pl place ce ceis is behind the bars always make it a point to attend everything where it is possible for them to sneak in for the ther r sole purpose of getting into a scrap a t We Vve have had trouble with them before and at every football game played in this city they create a disturbance The duty f of the police department t is supposed to tobe tobe be to maintain peace and order and to place these hoodlums where they pr properly pro pro- pro pro- properly p perly belong but if there is any w way y on onearth onearth onearth earth to get an officer only one ne to attend a game at the University we should very much like to find it out We have begged for an officer we have even offered to pay them at the rate of a dollar dollar dollar dol dol- lar but while it is evidently no noo o- o trick at all to get three or four atrol- atrol f m men n down to the Exposition grounds at atI I a game attended by two hundred people it seems impossible to get a single one detailed here with eight hundred or one thousand people on our campus These toughs have a terror of a blue coat and andone one man with brass buttons is amply sufficient to hold them in incheck check where it will take a far greater number of citizens citizens citi citi- citizens zens to accomplish the same object and then only by force or by whipping the entire gang Respectable e people do not attend a football game for the purpose of acting as policemen or scrapers and so the have full sway s sway Duri During g the game some of these hoodlums became very insulting toward some of the the Provo Prove spectators and very naturally their insults were reser resented ed th the result being an an extremely ex ex- lively scrap at the end of which a number of the toughs looked as though they ha had been put through a sausage mill Su Such h an affair is disgraceful and gives the the University a a bad name name but so long longas as we ve we rely on the shell egg-shell promises promises' of the men men in n charge at police h headquarters rs r's occurrences es of this kind will be frequent If the I police ce department t has rea reached hed such a stage that one thousand citizens cannot have the services service of one p policeman police police- lice lice- man then it is time for the University boys to organize take the law into their own hands and teach this gang of lawbreakers lawbreakers lawbreakers lawbreakers' law law- breakers breakers' that they have tackled the wrong wrong crowd I. I C. C Haslett I I 1 |