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Show - j ii.vrit-i3flBS- j pjt k,: it ..-iUAi : i i ' 1 r ; j v i - . mm - Many Returning Letter- men Bolster Aggie Hopes for a '-Good Year" Freddie Fred-die Allen Out. Cast in the role ol conference daxkhorse by sports directors of the Big Seven, Utah Aggie footballers foot-ballers will open annual grid camp September 10 with, a host of lettermen and a galaxy of last and this year's greenling performers, slated to check out pigskin para-phenalia. para-phenalia. Only 23 days after the start of practice the Ags will face their first 1942 opponent Rick's College, Col-lege, and begin the season that sports critics call their most promising pro-mising since the banner 193G era. The injury jinx that WTecked havoc in Utah ranks during the disappointing 1941 season stepped up early however to duplicate a misfortune which last year sent one of Romney's chief backfield threats to the bench before the season started. This time it was Freddie Allen veteran halfback ace, whose leg injury suffered in Og-den Og-den baseball play appeared serious enough to put him away indefinitely. indef-initely. In 1941, Bill Twitchell, tri-plethreater tri-plethreater who will see .heavy duty this season, was out for the duration with a cracked ankle bone. Status of Cannon Parkinson, promising quarterback candidate who transferred from Stanford university last spring is still pending pend-ing a special eligibility fuel action by confeernce members. Minus 12 lettermen from last year, the team; captained by Fer-ron Fer-ron Sonderegger, is certain to contain con-tain a number of sparling sophomores sopho-mores whose weight and speed will supply the punch the Farmer aggregation ag-gregation lacked a year ago. Billy Russell, Dick Folkerson, Merrill Crosby, Ken Farrell, Tony Sutich, George Nelson, Frank Williams, Wil-liams, Bill Murray, Ed Sorenson and Sergio Allvarez; all of them new names to Aggie fans, but names na-mes that doubtless figure promin-netly promin-netly in accounts of the Aggie attempts at-tempts to hit the comeback trail this year. Sorenson and Sutich are a hard running pair who will be invaluable invalua-ble in working the swift-clocking T offensive that wily Aggie Mentor Men-tor Dick Romney employs.. Russell, the fleet Georgia boy, is especiallly hard to tack down in broken field running and is smooth at both ends of passes. Alvarez is a canny and deceptive ball handler in the quarterback qu-arterback slot. Coach E. L. Dick Romney . . . who is entering his 25th year of coaching at Utah State. would make the hardest-driving trio of backfield men that Utah State has had in recent memoryj thereby correcting a marked weight-deficiency apparent in the axle of the T machine last fall. Heading the list of returning lettermen who will be carrying the ball from backfield posts are Twitchell, Twi-tchell, halfback; Harold Gutke, a standout quarterback returning to the Aggie football picture after two years; Mel Wood, highly effective leather lugger and one of the best pimter's in the league last year; Burton Silcock, cract -passing quarterback; quar-terback; Burns Crookston, swivel-hipped swivel-hipped half with considerable passing pas-sing talent and Gail omcan, sensational sensa-tional line-slicer last season before he broke his leg in the Denver game. Up on the line, Captain Sonderegger, Sonder-egger, at tackle, Glen "Lefty" Sorenson, Sor-enson, Guard and Ralph Maughan, center, will be mainposts. Dick Griffin and Dick Howard, two rangy ran-gy ends will be up for heavy pass-receiving pass-receiving assignments, and will probably be early starters . for Romney; while Bob Choate and Joe Ingersoll, a brace of 195-pound guards, will plug those holes. |
