Show JUST WHAT'S THE MATTER ALL A LL sorts of conflicting rumors have been spread with regard to the fail fail- uro of Hap Van Pelt to appear at last Friday nights night's game Every U U tJ supporter was disappointed at the outcome of the contest and our defea defeat t was v put down largely to the absence of the lanky center The heart was taken right out of the Utah team It was paralyzed an anin and andin d in n spite of desperate efforts failed to get going As representing and informing the student body the Chronicle feels tha that t the statements of both Coach Norgren and Van Pelt should be in a as s unbiased a manner as possible The coach says that Van Pelt to show up and that this is so serious serious serious seri seri- ous a breach as to make it necessary to dismiss him from the squad Pelt on the other hand says that he fully intended to be at the gym on time He blames himself in the first place for failure to see that his suit sue t was vas not there and for delaying to get another But in partial extenuation of all this he lie states that his ankle was s so o badly turned in practice a day or two ago that he did not expect to be use used d at all and would have been unable to stay in more than a very short time His statement of the matter makes it advisable for the students to de delay deay ay judgment until the complete facts are before us Van Pelt declares that he feels as though he lie is really at fault but that tha no 10 no man in ill the University regrets more that he was unable to play than does doe s Pelt himself It is certainly to be hoped that none of the men concerned will make a mountain out of a mole hill that the success of the University will no not t again be militated against by petty personal feelings 1 If such proves to be the case then something is seriously wrong with with i i intercollegiate athletics at Utah and for the sake of the reputation and progress progress prop ress of the institution radical steps should be taken to trace it down au and d root oot it out no matter how deep it may go |