Show i DRAKE STAR CHOSEN TO P PLOT lOT CRIMSON M r g I 2 i iZ g ARMSTRONG IS SELECTED FOR FORU U UI OF U COACH Succeeds rick Fitzpat-rick Tommy Fitzpat- Fitzpat Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick rick As Mentor of Institution SALT LAKE reb 17 Armstrong 17 1 J 7 Armstrong Armstrong- 29 23 years ears of o ag assist assist- assistant assistant t- t tant ant football coach and freshman b and track coach at Drake Droke university s Di-s Moines la Ia lawas as sas appointed l to succeed Tommy Fitzpatrick as o of the I of o Utah by the board boar of regents of o the Institution Monday Armstrong will assume hl hi his new duties next fall tall but may moy conduct conducta a spring football training camp here In April In preparation for his 19 1325 1925 2 5 grid race The athletic committee of o the hoard of regents resents composed o of the tho Rev John Edward Carver chair chair- chairman chairman chairman man Warren arron L I Wattis and Dr Clarence I 1 L Snow and four tour mom mom- bers of the tho faculty had been boen searching for tor a II man to till fill Fitz 8 place for tor nearly four months During the courso course of o their I work Armstron Armstrong was nas brou ht to Salt Lako where here he ho was Inter Inter- Interviewed Interviewed viewed Armstrong played player four lears of football and basketball at hh home hometown to n high school in rort Fort lon ll-idi-lon I colI oon la Is Later entered Drak Drill col college college legs lege where he spent a year before enterIng the arm army during the world liar ar Upon his ht hi return he played lull lull-bick tull- tull f oil oil- ck bick for Drake three conON bars cars graduating In 1923 1023 He Ito 10 sen cd as assistant coach and done nearly all of the tho scouting for or Coach Solem since Ills his graduation lie He has worked or under three coaches John I L Griffith plesent commissioner o of athletics In tn the Big Ten conference M B Pa 11 know now eo eh of o the University i c f I Tennessee fennessee and Coach Solem a aI I torner fornier University of o Minnesota coach During the past three years Drake has won non on 18 out o of 20 game garne He lie Is declared to be a a a foot fast think think- thinker er T r a 11 stalwart art man and an ablo abio strategist as well as one of the clean cleanest cst 0 over cier er grad gradt- gradated from Drake University I On the track he was a quarter quarter- miler and a 11 discus thrower er and has had ample basketball per lenee lence while acting as coach Armstrong Is said to have of o getting along elong will will- Ill his men |