| Show J DRIZZLE by 0 H. Pine sat stretched comfortably across a sofa in the Ballif Hall He looked at his an award time-piece given him by the Shrine High School all-star game officials as a participant in the He leaned further and looked at the was just a he paper didn't know what they were talking In last week's Pine had been said to have quit Utah had it that he had lost his athletic scholarship and had drifted out of the Redskin camp without even notifying his A sports column in a downtown paper hadn't been exactly complimentary to and sports fans kinda snook their and thought tragic thoughts of Pine's career and of Utah's coming Off the Rolls BY it had spread throughout pus and city that Ed Pine's career at Utah was at an Those didn't feel sorry for Ed exulted in seeing an athlete of full-ride-status cut from the rolls of the Ed was a case in point for the de-emphasizing of high-caliber And on Again Bill Waters Saturday a third string center bore tremendous likeness to Ed It was the same huge build and the same fierce spirit of play out but this fellow was wearing the green jersey of a On closer look it proved to be the Big Tree back in Ute uniform playing the great football that thrilled thousands of fans last BIG ED TAPPED his fingers on the sofa arm and was off scholarship at the end of fall but I made it back and engineering came to Utah with academic ability which paralleled his athletic kept him so busy that his studies were somewhat his normally high grade average slipped in the tough grind of a brilliant grid When he saw by his grade card that he'd dropped his full-ride Ed Pine immediately went about correcting the He took regular and home study courses and pulled out a higher than average for winter the home study course took longer than his in-school From Coach Ray Nagel's words he understood that wasn't to turn out for spring drill until his tension work was ON NOT SEEING the celebrated center-linebacker among spring the press attacked Coach Nagel for an It had teen a while since Ed had talked to Nagel about the and Nagel didn't know where Pine Press made a good-sounding story of Ed's supposed quitting of and out went the Regardless of stories of Pine's quitting and re-joining the Ed contends that he never once thought of iLare Ponderosa isn't mad at the adverse talk in the papers doesn't hurt It's when talk stops that you start |
