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Show I! I CONFERENCE FOOTBALL SEASON MSI THIS ATO11 IN OGDEN West Side and Ogden High Meet Today While Other Teams j ' 1 1 in League Rest a Week Before Coming Into t Active Competition. If SALT LAKE, Oct 13. Although tho ; world's series and the Pacific Const league ard still with us, the middle j of October has rolled around and Old King Football Is ready to crowd his J way onto the scene. ' I 1 Today really marks the beginning of I j the football season all over the coun- j try. Salt Lake Jans will probably cen- I ler their interest In the game between I j West Side and Ogden in the Junction j City. Ogden is still an uncertain quan- tity, while the Panthers were snowed under at Payson recently by the same J team which was yesterday humbled by I East High. : ,! Next in importance with local fans will be the game between the Logan ' Aggies and Montana university at Mis- " 1 soula, MonL i Utah will take another week of rest : before It butts' into active competition , In the Rocky Mountain conference. Othor teams in the league will get un-' un-' dcr way today, however. ' Hero are the two conference games scheduled for today: I Colorado U. vs. Denver at Denver. ; ? Colorado Mines vs. Wyoming at t 3 Choycnne. j Thus far none of the Colorado critics I have mustered up sufficient nerve to compare the various elevens on that end of the "circuit," probably due to ' I the inroads that the war has made on f the material at hand. Last Saturday the University of Denver demonstrated that it must bo 'considered in the fight for the con- ference championship, by taking the - strong Montana Aggies into camp. , Denver's line was slow, according to jt reports, but Anderson and Gibson, the : I 1 strong halves, carried the. team to vie- I ton'. The Colorado Aggies, twice cham- Iu pions of the conference, were unaoie i to defeat Wyoming, the weakest elov- i en in past years, last Saturday. To I make matters worse, the Colorado 1 Farmers were tied yesterday, 20 to 20, I by the Montana Aggies. 1 1 The Colorado Mines Is still an un- l known quantity. It defeated a team of Uncle Sam's soldiers recently, but the dope Is that the opponents were a poor excuse for a football team. It will have its first real test against the University of Wyoming today. The school broke up in a row last year, but the conference allowed the Miners to make up their work and be eligible for this year's games. In Schneider, Coach Parsons has a veteran, veter-an, but the line for the most part is green and inexperienced. Colorado university has a light team, but an aggregation of fighters, so the dope goes. It's crucial test will also corao today against Denver, a rival of old. Colorado must win its game today and, with Denver having Anderson and Gibson, two regulars going strong, will have a battle on its hands. Waiting on Utah. The Colorado crilics arc anxiously waiting to sec what the two Utah teams look like. Somehow or other the opinion prevails there that the Utah Aggies and Utah have something up their sleeves. Perhaps they have, but we here in Salt Lake can't even guoss what it might be. Should Denver win all its games and either the University of Utah or the Aggies do likewise, comparisons would have to be indulged in as Denver docs not meet either of the Utah elevens Colorado college, with Rothgeb, the fox, on the job, will put out a strong aggregation. The Tigers have two veterans vet-erans in the backQeld, Vomer and Mimmack. Around these two players the eleven will be built The war has claimed the old Tiger stars, such as Jack Taylor, "Stub" Davis and "Bull" Schweiger, but as the other colleges have also been weakened, the Tigers, comparatively spoaking, will bo almost as strong as last year. Summing it all up, from this angle, the race appears to be between Denver, Den-ver, Colorado college and possibly ono of the two Utah elevens. However, as surprises follow surprises in football and, under the new rules, anything may happen, before another week roles around the race may be changed entirely. |