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Show Here's First Crew of "Red Devils" I In Grid Togs at Utah University ... I . ;, . ; ; .. .. I l& . n ,r iff! m : :-:Y' gjfg WiiW " ' - -V " I i - -. - - ' ' ........ M-, I-. ,;,;Mvmn?,i.iti i a.- i Crimson Moleskin Warriors of 18"2, in War Attire Are as Follows: Top How, Li lt to Kiglit: ( hrlstcnscn, Wallace, Rlter and Grocr. Center Row, Ift to ltlglit: Dow, Fldrcdgc, Curuilagliaui (Captain). Jennings and E. Christensen. Button Row, I.ft to lllgbt: William, GrOCSbeck, .Mclntyre, Thomas and Taylor. I How times do change. Just take a peep at the above photo of the first offlclad gridiron machine at the University of Utah, cumparo I their war togs with present day dreus j for moleskin warriors, and then make, your decision. The photo was taken In IS 9 2 when the grid game was considered con-sidered a ' brutal," harmful game. Two Qgdenltes are noted in the picture. pic-ture. J U. Eldredge. Jr. general manager of Tho Ogden Standard-I Standard-I Examiner and Seth Thomas. local business man. may be seen In their j football attiro- Alma Cunningham Is shown holding hold-ing tho ball which bears the figures "UU 10.'." He was captain of tho team and played In the backfleld. What a dlGrcnce the team of today at the University of Utah shows over I the 1892 eleven in uniforms in particular. par-ticular. Fourteen men were on the. : team at that time while almost twice as many are on the squad of the prcs-, prcs-, ent eleven. 1 Just how far wou'.d a present day grid machine get on straight football. Just suppose that the trick plays w-i'-o , eliminated and th- forward pass discarded. dis-carded. This would take a greatdeal of kick out of the game. But that is what was featured In the early days. Thirty years ago mass plays, wedge and diamond formations were used. , the forward pass being unknown and j trick plays unheard ot. Time will tell. In another SO yea-s the grid game would advance with rapidity. With the Aggie-Utah castle on tho stage at Salt Lake next Thursday many of the members of the first "U" squad will be on the scene. Thirty years is quite a period of time, but tho real lovers of the grid game, members of that famous Initial eleven will be on the side lines casting their optics on players and teams, with visions of their early day grid training. on |