Show Utah Played Football I In n 1892 By KNIGHT B. B KERR The University of Utah's football football foot foot- ball haIl history extends back for more than 40 years to 1892 when the first gridiron team went out on a snow-covered snow field at Logan to defend defend defend de de- de- de fend the schools school's honor against the Utah Agricultural College That first contest ended in a victory for forthe forthe forthe the Logan team by a score of 12 to 0 O. Two years later the U boasted of its first really organized football football foot root ball baIl team F. F W. W Reynolds director of the Extension Division was a member It was a n wide nation custom at that time to have the professors play on the squad as well wen as the students Utah was no different By 1900 football was definitely established at the University of Utah Since then there has been an unbroken record record of games with the exception of 1918 when the team was abandoned b because cause of the war In 1900 the first official season Utah played three games The Utes ran all over All Hallows Hallows' College College College Col Col- lege by a score of 36 to 6 and won over the Utah 21 to 0 O. In Inthe Inthe the final game with the Y Y M. M C. C A A. A they lost 6 to 0 O. As early as 1901 Utah met in intersectional intersectional intersectional in- in foes such as Stanford and Nevada In later years the team battled with Southern California California California Cali Cali- fornia Occidental Pomona and 1 Montana Even though the Utes have madea made madea ade adea a record for high scoring in games of f recent years they do not come near the scores of games in 1904 and 1905 The Redskins trimmed Fort Douglas by scores of to 0 and to 0 O. Utah's first Rocky Mountain conference title came in 1922 under the coaching of Tommy Fitzpat- Fitzpat rick Prior to 1921 the teams on the eastern side of the had completely dominated the play The Utah broke the jinx and brought the first title to Utah in 1921 |