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Show Give College Athletes Official Recognition In our issue of January 25 we printed a picture of a fine looking group of basketball players eleven men. They wore the official "Utah State" shirt but were called the "Collegians." The name Collegians has heretofore here-tofore been applied to a baseball team representing Logan, and we are wondering why -that name should be applied to the college men. Reading the article accompanying ac-companying the picture we find the players are also termed "unofficial Utah Aggies." How can that be when most of the men are regular students of the College? We note also that the boys are being coached by one of their own group, Orrin Curtis, lanky center. Is there any particular reason for that. when the college' has employed a high salaried head coach for manyj years (more than 25 years) as well as assistant coaches? Their record thus far show's nine victories and one loss. Surely that is .a good record and one that the college could be proud of. If we go back into history we are quite sure many of the previous "official" teams of the college have not done so well, either in basketball basket-ball or football. Of course, we know that at the beginning of college this school season the officials decided not to have a football squad because, they said, they were handicapped handi-capped for good players due to the men being called into the armed services of the nation. Is the Utah State Agricultural College the only institution in the inter-mountain inter-mountain region whose men have been called into the service? If not the other colleges and universities must be likewise handicapped. So when all are handicapped in a like manner there is still some measure of equality existing between them. In the face of these facts we see no reason why these men should not be adopted by the college, given the official name, coached by the regular coaching staff, and represent the college in their games. |