Show u jIbe The Melting Melling Poll Pot Editors Editor's Note Communications to this department should be signed by the c contributor Contributions bearing anonymous names or initials will not be honored led Communications should be written on one side side- of the paper and preferably typewritten This Spirit Again Editor the Chronicle Last Saturday night Utah lost her second game with B. B Y U. U by bya a score of 35 And as the spectators spectators spectators spec spec- walked away more than one was heard to say The teams team's just rotten they dont don't seem to be able to do anything Then as if that settled it they would amble on on- ward But th the question remains What is the matter matter with the team 1 I for one Say say that its principal trouble is that it is afflicted afflicted afflicted af af- with a poor student body a student b body dy that knows how to cheer only when the team is win win- ning Last Saturday night night and and Friday too too we we were treated to the spectacle of of- ofa a crowd composed compos compos- ed of probably third one-third B. B Y supporters supporters supporters sup sup- porters and two-thirds two supposedly supporters of Utah's team But atno at atno no time did the Utah support begin begin begin be be- gin to equal in quality or quantity that of the Cougar rooters even eyen though we had in our midst a specially specially specially reserved section for the Spurs society theoretically a girls' girls booster organization with a membership membership membership mem mem- of thirty odd Nine of the thet t thirty showed up up but failed to do any rooting until the game was half over oyer At the half on the insistent insistent insistent in in- demand of the Utah y yell yell- ll- ll master the girls burst forth then thEm subsided d dully lly until the second half was well under way During the latter period they broke away from their sedale equanimity three or four times perhaps hopi hoping g in inI inthis inthis this s m manner to justify their occupancy occupancy occupancy I pancy of choice seats Besides the Spurs the pla place e was littered with n l u 1 1 u Blue Key men scattered hither and thither in their resplendent red coats They were vere as silent as the lowliest freshmen in the place Indeed Indeed Indeed In In- deed the only real support the team was given came in the form of periodic outbursts from the band band and and even eyen it was by no means up to the form it has previously previously previously pre pre- displayed displayed and and from a few isolated students yelling here and there literally voices crying in the wilderness What a contrast to the Aggie games But then Utah was winning winning winning win win- ning l last st Saturday night she was losing We Ve the students of pf the University of Utah are n not t chary about about giving support to a winning team but when the team is behind behind behind be be- hind what a difference e Indeed the average student on this campus campus campus cam cam- pus when he leaves a basketball game after a Utah victory announces announces announces an an- in boastful tones Oh yes WE won But when defeat has been our lot his comment is Oh THEY lost Such is Utah spirit in the year of our Lord 1928 Respectfully B. B |