Show bath varsity football schedule salt lake city june 30 seven opponents face the university of utah rocky mountain conference football champions on tho the gridiron in 1927 none of ithe the schools to be played are weak and at least five should make the going exceedingly rough for or the conference title holders in their attempt to retain the grid laurels of the region for another year five of these contests are home games while two trips will be made A new stadium now in process of construction near the old camping grounds on cummings field in fit salt lake city will be ready for the opening game of the season on october 1 and coach ike armstrong plans to put one of the strongest teams in the history of the crimson upon the field that day against the miners of colorado while the latter institution has fallen oft off somewhat lit in recent years in football play still the golden eleven can always be counted upon to afford a bollt tussle for or any opponent leaving the rocky mountain region for a week the crimson eleven will vill journey to evanston illinois for its second game of the year clashing with northwestern university one of the b e teams in the big ten roi ou terence ference on october 8 al while a ve or the utah squad al if bei 1 conti conald wed dared an upset in the middle we mast sl local followers of the grid sport believe the utes may be accorded an ail even break with the strong big ten school this game will have no conference bearing and willbe will bo one of two encounters tor for the utes in 1927 the redskins Red skins will return to salt lake city and the new stadium on oil october 22 for the annual encounter with colorado university the greatest centennial state rival 0 of the crimson the game la Is usually played on homecoming day and a huge crowd seems destined to pack the utah stadium on that day one week later on october 29 the utes will tangle with the colorado aggles conference title titleholders holders in 1925 at port fort colllns collins thi the e colorado farmers under the coaching of harry hughs always have one of 0 the strongest teams in the intermountain country and should provide armstrongs with strong opposition creighton university of 0 omaha nebraska will furnish the second non conference terence game tor for the mountain champs the game to be played on november 5 in the utah stadium creighton has been anxious to establish relations with a rocky mountain aggregation for some years and should be a worthy toe foe for or the crimson the brigham young cougars meet the conference champs on november 11 at salt lake and the cats promise to provide some tough sledding before being pushed aside as the provo prove aggregation gets better each year thanksgiving day will witness the annual renewal of 0 rivalry between the crimson horde and the blue warriors of 0 the utah aggles vengeful because of their overwhelming defeat at the hands of the utes in 1926 the aggles plan to upset tho the title aspirations pi rations of the crimson in november but armstrong and his clan are confident of repulsing the thrusts of the farmers present indications seem to give the champions every reason to hope for or another pennant in 1927 but before this ambition may be realized seven stubborn elevens must be met and a majority of them defeated a task which calls tor for hard work and plenty of it before the file first whistle blows on october 1 |