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Show CRIMSONS ARE GIVEN A ROYAL WELCOME Coach Nelson II. Norgren and his Crimson band of warriors and rooters, about forty strong, arrived in this city yesterday at 12:25 from Fort Collins, Col-lins, where the Utahns almost romped off with the Rocky mountain championship cham-pionship Saturday. With the exception excep-tion of a few bruises and scratches, the gridists appeared to be in the pink of condition after the strenuous tus-sel tus-sel wit htho Colorado Aggies. Captain Cap-tain Van Pelt and "Dick" Romuey came out of the conflict with a "black lamp" apiece. At the station to meet the returning heroes were two street car loads of university rooters. Classes were dismissed dis-missed at noon In order that a good representation of supporters might be on hand to extend the hand of welcome. wel-come. People of the city were almost convinced that the reports that Utah had lost the fracas were untrue, so Jubilant did the Crimson rooters seem. But the true spirit, win, or lose, appears ap-pears to prevail at the university this year. After reaching the campus the players play-ers were again accorded a real reception. recep-tion. Speeches were made by several of the warriors, as well as by a few of the supporters who accompanied tho team. Assertions made by Coach Norgren and various members of the team did not vary much from the reports previously pre-viously receivedw. According to Coach Norgren, tho defeat can be attributed to the light weight of the Utah men as compared with that of the farmers. farm-ers. Utah was within striking distance dis-tance of Colorado s goal more than was the Aggie aggregation. Twice the team was on tho ten-yard line, only to bo held for downs because of the strong resistance offered by the heavy Aggie line. Norgren reports that on one occasion, with tho pigskin on tho one-foot line, his men had made no noticeable gains on the fjrst three downs, so on the fourth down a new play was tried, but was unsuccessful. unsuc-cessful. Had Utah been ten or fifteen fif-teen pounds heavier to tho man, therefore, there-fore, the tale might have been different. |