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Show UTAH-COLORADO CRUCIAL GAME Last Process of Elimination for Conference Honors to Be Played Off. Salt Lake City, Nov 8 Outweighed Out-weighed 18 pounds to the man, the University of Utah football team Faced the University of Colorado eleven here today in their annual struggle. Although Colorado was the favorite, 1'tab had counted on offsetting off-setting with speed the brawn of their opponents Today's foolball games in the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Is looked upon as the last In the process of elimination for conference honors The crucial games were the ones between 'he University of Utah and the University of Colorado, at Salt Lake City and Colorado College and Colorado School of Mines at Denver. The Denver university plag Wyoming Wyom-ing university at Laredo. Colorado enters the game with Utah with the latter team somewhat some-what ( rippled through the loss of two reterans, Travers and Summer, who have been barred from the game through breaking training. Sutherland, Suther-land, at quarter, became the only veteran of known qualities left on the Utah team Colorado hHs suffered suf-fered from its hard gam.- with Colo rado college last Saturday aud its tram la not up to the standard Indications In-dications are that Utah will be forced to rely almost entirely upon forward passes and open formation. while Colorado will have to revert to close formation, relying mainly upon the punting of Nelson. keen interest centers upon the Mines-Colorado college game. The Miners Sre looked upon as the j strongest eleven In the conference! as vet unbeaten and if Colorado college col-lege succumbs to their heavy line playing today, the Tigers will be eliminated from conference honors, having already Inst game. The Miners Min-ers ha- tli advantage of a comparatively com-paratively fresh team, while the Tigers Tig-ers are still hurt from their vlclou scrimmage with Colorado university last Saturday Denver and Wyoming both are thf weaker teams of the conference, and already have lost their chances for honors Dener enters the game to-da to-da with an edge on the Wyoming team, by the Individual playing of its few veterans. The innovation of numbered players play-ers was tried out today in the game here. |