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Show HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BOYS ELECT k CAPTAIN AT DELIGHTFUL BANQUET Glen Dee, the "biggest" little foot-! ball player ever developed in the Utah high school league, was elected captain cap-tain of the Ogden Hifih school football foot-ball team for the 1917 season The election followed the annual "for-ball" "for-ball" banquet and was. by unanimous vote of the letter men, by secret bal-Ici bal-Ici Three hearty cheers v. orr- given the doughty halfback when his elec tion was announced b.v Ex-Coach Raymond Ray-mond Shirey, chairman of the business meeting, and he made a brief speech, hopeful of leading his team into another an-other state pennant. The festivities were staged in the dining room of the hij-h school domestic do-mestic science department and the greatest high school football team ever developed in the intermountain country, with a few specially invited guests, surrounded the banquet board. With appetites heightened by the neat appearance of the banquet board, covers cov-ers being laid for twenty-five and vases of daffodills and ferns adding an artistic touch to the general table appointments, ap-pointments, the football boys and their most enthusiastic supporters greatlv enjoyed the feasL The '-kick-off' was called at 4 o'clock and "team work" was ignored in the disposal of the different dif-ferent viands. "Bill" Glasraann earlv remarked that he came to the banquet ban-quet to fill a "vacancy," and it was soon evident to the charming young waitresses that the remainder of the crowd was there for the same purpose. pur-pose. Suffice it to say that no vacancies vacan-cies existed when the last course was cleared awav. A Splendid Feast. The banquet was prepared and served by the following girls of Domestic Do-mestic Science class "D," under the direction of Miss Verna Bowman head of the department: Geneve Anderson. An-derson. Helen Bartlett, xvlarjorie Chase, Anna Davidson, Mabel Huband Elva Hanson, Margaret ..uunroe. Lillian Lil-lian Shaw, Meda Stone. Gladys Williams. Wil-liams. Venus Williams, Christine Wit-teveen, Wit-teveen, Their work was done in excellent ex-cellent style and the viands were of delicious quality The menu was as follows: Fruit Cocktail Veal Buds, Brown Sauce Potato Croquets Peas Hot Rolls Butter Balls Chopped Pickle Tomato Aspic Salad. Cheese Sticks Vanilla Ice Cream Pineapple Sauce Chocolate Cake Hot Chocolate Mints After Dinner Speakers. Roger Connor, ex-athletlc manager, presided over the afialr &s toastmas' ter. his official position not being made known, however, until the chocolate choc-olate was served. Then, with an apt witticism in each instance, ho proceeded pro-ceeded to draw upon the oratorical powers of the banqueters and in the program of speeches that followed some high ideals in athletics were pictured pic-tured by Dr. Reinhold Kanzler. Principal Prin-cipal J. E. Beeson. ExCoach Raymond Shirey, Coach C. L. Duff and Edgar Johnston, while leas experienced speakers confined their remarks to hopes and wishes that future pennant winning athletic teams be developed at the Oeden High school. Some Serious Thoughts. Dr. Kanzler, whose work in conditioning condi-tioning the football team last season was a big factor in its success, was the first speaker and be Immediately changed the mood of the banqueters from light-heartedness to seriousness After reviewing the great record of victories made by the 1916 team, he declared that football was a diversion, not the main purpope of high school' life, to those who participated in the game, and that scholastic credits was the matter of greatest importance. He emphasized clean living as the. big factor fac-tor in success at football and emphatically emphat-ically stated that cigarettes, lack of sleep and other dissipation "don't go" with the game m its true purpose. Con tinning, ho touched upon needful improvements im-provements among the youths at the high schools, among these being better support of tho cadet company, which, he declared to be the biggest asset of the school on account of Its disciplinary discipli-nary value; better support of the school band and consider. ite treatment of the "CO-edfl " The girls of th.' high school, he declared, are not given a , square deal. They have not the proper pro-per opportunities for physical educa tion and do not receive the courteous treatment and respectful treatment from the boys that is their due. "You can't be too nice and you can't do enough for these girls they are wor thy and need all the respect and reverence rev-erence you can show them." he declared de-clared In conclusion, Dr. Kanzler said he had greatly enjoyed his association asso-ciation with tho 1917 state champions j and hoped the team would fight hard for the pennant again next fall. "Victory isn't football," declared Ex-Coach Ex-Coach Raymond Shirey, the next speaker, "and no man can be a leader unless he first learns to follow. The primary thing in athletics Is not to win victories, but to develop men. A good football team is a machine with 11 cogs and these cogs must work together. to-gether. Clean athletics is what we are working for. Vulgarity has no place on the football field or training table, nor the greater evils, and I hope that next fall Coach Duff will have a good, clean bunch of football players, that they will play good, clean football foot-ball and win good, clean victories. The outlook for these conditions are bright and I hope the school will get behind the players with its whole strength and 'boost." Coach Shirey preceded these remarks with pleasant recollections of his work in developing the state champions and on behalf of the Browning Brothers company said that the gold medals promised the players play-ers who had participated in two games last season were readv for them. He concluded by quoting the poem, "Car ry On," by Robert Service. Ideals of the New Coach. "I am pleased to associate with champions," was tho opening remark of Coach Duff, the next victim of th tostmaster's puns. Continuing he said "The basketball team we had here thi3 year was the scrappiest bunch I havo ever seen. Thought beaten time and again they were never whipped and 'hat is tho spirit that makes real men. It you cant whip' a man, make his work so hard to whip you that he won't want to attempt at-tempt to repeat the trick I have Bome ideals In athlotics and one of these is that they must be ( lean, ( lean athletics mean clean moral clothps and very member on a team must work to keep his fellows up to a hlKh moral stand ud. Cood football teams must tram and to get tho best results from training, the players must want to train and not be driven to it. They must lie clean in word and action If the real benefits of the game are to be de- barred from all athletic activities and associations. If there is any "cusa-inp "cusa-inp " to do, let the coach do it " While he congratulated the 1916 team on its achievement, Coach Duff said in conclusion, that he was mainly interested in the "1917 model" and expected to make it a winner. Principal J E, Breson said he liked the tenor of the talks made by the, preceding speakers and stated that they worp right in placing scholastic traning ahead of athletics in school life. "I am glad, he continued, that Coach Duff stands for clean athletics Mis words ring true and I feel that he will be a leader to the high school bovs. There Is a well-defined movement move-ment now on foot to elevjate the standard of athletics in Utah high school and to be successful in this the moral personnel of the athletes must also be deviated. Foot-ball is a big thing and I want it to be successfully suc-cessfully played at our school. I like the game. I like all the boys who participate in it and will do all I can for their welfare " Other Speakers. Assistant Coach E. H. Dunaway added sauce to the substantial talks given with a few apt stories and said that his experiences with the football team last year wefe the most enjoyable enjoy-able of his life In Ogden. thus far. Prof. Johnson spoke in praise of the support given the team b the student stu-dent body of the high school, the news papers and the local public and said he hoped the winning of the pennant was the beginning of winning a series of championships. Alonzo West, said it was easy to write a good story when the "homo" team won and that the 1917 O. H. S football team had made up to the local sport written; for some of the hard work they w e required to perform in order to keep hope in the local fans Prof. Haslam expressed the desire that the BChool athletes continue their efforts to obtain ob-tain all possible scholastic credits this year, that they might be eligible ior positions on the football team next year. Harry Bagley and Clen Doe spokft briefly for the football boys, calling upon their fellows to get In early next season to win the championship and brlns tlie pennant home 'clean The speeches concluded, the girls who served the banquet were called in and given three rousing cheers and the election of the team captain followed. fol-lowed. The following "fortunate ones" en-Joyed en-Joyed the feast and the talks that were made- Special guests Principal J. E. "Dad" Boeson. Coach C. L. Duff, Ex-coach Raymond Shirey. Assistant Coach Dunaway. Prof, Edgar John-son John-son and James Haslem. Dr. Relnhold Kanzler, Alonzo West. Members of the team, Glen Dee. ''Bill" Olasmann, Dick Marshal, "Jun" Rich, Vin Conroy, Maurice Conroy. Lee Richards. Harry Bagley, "Rasty"' Mclntyre, Moore Kingsford. Glen Stone and George Irwin. The absent "champions" were Ixiuis Ealck. Joe Falck, Eh in Wilkinson, "Rube" Fox and "Bill" Mohler. These five were missed by the banqueters and manv good words were spoken of them. |