| Show Slivers From the Bench Denver Sells Big Seven Down River By DICK MacFARLANE Denver finally pulled out of the J Big- Seven over the holidays after years blowing their tops at the deal they were given by the rest of the conference which maintained a The it have a t- large bonded indebtedness on their stadium and they can't pay it off if they play a strict rather than conform I to a plan which benefits the Big Seven as a Denver took a Claim Big Debts It doesn't seem to have occurred to the DU managers that there imay be indebtedness on other conference They don't seem to realize that other schools may be inconvenienced by a home-and- I N home but maintained it I in order to preserve some system in league They don't seem to have given a thought to such schools as Utah State and Wyoming who depend upon Denver gate receipts to help finance their athletic J By its action Denver has J the entire set-up and I future of the Big An additional reason given unofficially by Denver for suck- ing out of the league was that Denver could find much better competition by free-lancing than could be obtained in the Big This would seem a wee bit incongruous since the conference championship has been on the west side of the for the last two years and Denver has yet to win a conference It looks to us like the Pioneers are getting too big for their britches and will have a rude awakening on some future And when they Denver will be playing in the bush league where they By some quirk of if you want to call it the Redskins have been made the sacred goat of the Big Seven by being nominated to tackle Wyoming and the supermen of the in three successive Admittedly this is a raw deal for the Utes since are not yet up to full strength despite their two-week barnstorming tour of the the situation isn't as bad as some would make it out to Season Not Over The Utah basketball season will not be over after the first three The rest of the schedule includes games with Colorado and a strong contender for the Big Seven There must be a reckoning with Utah with a new coach and unknown can be considered a genuine dark This will leave plenty of stiff games to fill out the rest of the And we're so sure the Wyoming and Colorado games are on |
