| Show What Denver Discontinues Football Competition By MARCELLUS SNOW Chronicle Sports Editor Officials of the University of Denver announced Monday that their school would no longer participate in intercollegiate The announcement is part of a wake of feeling among college administrations to withdraw from athletic competition in which they cannot successfully THE dramatic announcement follows close on the heels of a similar move by Marquette as well as was listed as an opponent of Utah's in the 1961 grid Neither athletic director Bud Jack nor football coach Ray Nagel was available for comment at the time of the which came to University president A. Ray in a telegram from Denver The two are in Pittsburgh Utah will now be faced with the task of finding another football opponent to replace the now non-existent Pioneer grid The announcement comes from a school faced with a continually bleak football outlook and usually mediocre seasons among other to a limited scholarship budget for football The bulk of Denver athletic funds are used to lure skiers for the school's top-notch winter sports Denver's withdrawal from intercollegiate football may be a sort of catalytic agent in the decline and fall of the Skyline The tottering all year as school after school made overtures to west coast schools such as Oregon and Washington for a new now finds itself with a ready-made excuse for altogether after schedules of competition expire in two or three |
