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Show I Two Utah Gridders Selected on Crow)eys Tear: I HANCOCK OF UTAH CHAMPS GETS CENTER POSITION; KNOWLES IS ALSO NAMED Colorado Aggies List Five Men on Mythical Eleven; three Utah University and Two Aggies Get Honorable Mention; Crowley's Selection Authentic. I : i IIKKE'S CROWXEY'S ALdL-COXFKRENC E SELECTION. Player. Position. School. Hinds Left Knd Colorado Aggie RfcDougal Right FJid . . Colorado College Wn.io ix-ft Tackle Colorado Aggie McLean Mght Tackle Colorado University Baxln Lett tiuard Colorado AgglOS McMichacl Right tiuard Colorado Agglos Hancock Center Utah University Houser Quarterback Colorado Aggies KiKiiis Jiisiit Halfback Utah Aggie illlains Lcfl Hninack Denver University MeGionc Fallback Colorado Mines Honorable mention: Hurren, BrilU, Whitney and Jewkes, Vni-verslty Vni-verslty of Utah; ODonnell, Beal and Cowman, Denver University; Croft anil ('onro , I tali Aggle.s; Anderson and Clark, Colorado Aggies; Weisa and Wesson, Colorado College; McWhortcr and Crawford, Colorado .Mines: Young) Brlgliam Young University. . f I BY CLEM CROWLEY. I IJ'HB 1922 football season In the H J, Rocky Mountains was noted for I no thing, namely being- consistent. J Never jn the history of football in this II region has there beon such a season II of upsets. It Ib hard for one to dlag- nose the reason for this because It happened to all the best teams save J: till Cnlversity of Utah. It can be said 1 that the latter eleven won the undisputed undis-puted title to the championship of I this region because jt was the one I team that displayed consistent foot-hall. foot-hall. At the outset of the aea.son the two strong elevens so far as the wise j depestera were concerned was the 1 School of Mines and th University of I 'va Denver Th Aggies were placed next -l'M on the list with the two Utah InstltU- La tlons rated about a fair fourth. The ,3? Mines tied Denver, lost to the strong 'layl Aggies, lost to the University of Colo- ' -.'Wi g-ri ' arcl d 'I . .dorado .or..-.;. 'tM which in turn h.id tied the Aggies, and r'M defeated Colorado. H UPSETS FEATURE, v5 Denver tied Mines, beat Colorado, 'SB Which In turn had defeated the Colo-frado Colo-frado Aggies, and were overwhelming- 'iaS ly defeated by the Aggies Thanksgiv- 'M nD' day. It would tako a Philadelphia tH lawyer to figure out the whys and 'yjtm wherefores. .yJH In the main the elevens used H ti;dght football Intermingled with a kjjB few forward passes during the year. '"':jH Heavy attacks on tackle, crossbucks, aHl Straight bucks, and cut-backs through "jffl lh lln were the most effective means W' of attack. The only real open foot- - -vfflli ball displayed was that used by Colo- . "sB; rado college under th skilful coach- lnw if Mead. flffl UTAH FOLLOWED BALL. I "Sli ctaA Won the championship by good .SB hard. Cimn footbull and the, ability to k$M ake advantage of the breaks. They '. jM followed the ball and any eleven that '"31 does that breaks for Itself At thej a9' en'' of tbe vear- tue Colorado Aggies H nnd me School of Mines hod two I 'Mm pOWerfal elevens right In their prime .-al In selecting an All -Rocky Mountain H eleven the WTlter is placed with the! -2jgfl Situation as In Lie past, of Incurring the displeasure of the football fans, $M that do not agree with his election. ThiP team will not meet with tho ap-j i'gWi proval of all the coaches but it Is aj 1 fall selection based upon actual expert-, 9aHB nr'' anJ- elven hero lor what It is vital worth. TTTF FNDS. There were two outstanding ends,; Hinds of Colorado Aggies and McDou-gal McDou-gal of Colorado college and these players play-ers are selected for these positions.; Hlnes Is a big powerful piayor that has ability to box and ordinary tackle! in or out as tho occasion demands. He Is also an adopt at receUIng for-1 for-1 wards p.'i??n.! and going down on punts. McDougal, his running mate, has the sam' qualities and In addition l wonderful kicker. Welgle of the Colorado Aggies and McLean of Colorado Colo-rado university are selected as tackle! The former Is one of the best line-men seen In this state since the days of Lavender of the Mln.s. Dotson of t)ic Colorado Aggies and Twltchell of the Utah Aggies. He is easily the beat lineman seen this year and was one of the main reasons for the success of the Colorado Agples McLean, his running run-ning mate, played consistent football during the year and while not as brilliant bril-liant as Welgle was slvady, and Just as hard a worker The two outstanding outstand-ing guards were the old favorites Bain and BtcMlchael, both of the Colorado Aggies. These two players held down the gunrd positions In a wonderful manner. They ar experienced, Ag-fresslvc Ag-fresslvc and .smart players There wae not a elnirle eleven that the Colorado Aggies met this year who were able to gain ground over them. For center, there can be only on selection, and that Is Hancock of I t in One cannot possibly tell of the gooa qualities of this player, playing practically prac-tically through tho entire season In an Injun d condition, he was head and shoulders over any other center His passing was fauitless, and in addition his aggressiveness, "up on the toes every minute " was tho big thing In making Utah the champion. His passing pass-ing from football Is regretted by all the lovt.rs of the sport and their only consolation is th fact that thoy look forward In tho future to the coming great centerband and comparo them with Hancock as to their ability TITK BACKS. The quarterback position Is a difficult dif-ficult one to make a selection. There were really two great quarters in the conference, Houser of tho Colorado Aggies and Smith of Utah University. The former Is no doubt one of the greatest backs in the conference. His generalship has been faultless, his defensive de-fensive work has been good, while on offense he can hit a line from a quarterback quar-terback position as hard as a fullback. full-back. Houser is good for two or threr yards any time whether on the five-yard five-yard line or the middle of the field On the other hand, wo have Smith, a wonderful kicker who won the contest con-test against Boulder by his kicking and who la flnlahlns , it-, v,i. rnnKn career by being captain of the champion cham-pion eleven. It is the old story of a good little man competing agitinst a good big roan. The writer selects Houser because from considering all the angles he would be far more valuable val-uable to a team on account of his Increased In-creased weight than Smith. Smith can well be proud of the fact that he was defeated by the man that did more to defeat the powerful team than anyone else. The two best backs were Knowles of Utah Aggies and Williams of Denver Den-ver university. The former Is a big powerful man something on the order of McClone and he was the mainstay of his eleven. Williams, though hurt, was the chief ground gainer for Den-vei Den-vei university, and his worV- this year was as consistent an last season. The great McClone Is chosen for fullback and big Mac certainly deserves the honor. It would bo hard to find anyone any-one that could dispute this selection Thib player was the big "triple threat-man threat-man of the conference. He could kick, pass or run. and do them all well Ills last contest against tho Colorado Aggies was one of the greatest exhibitions exhi-bitions of individual fonMH plavlng seen during the year. The honor roll consists In Clark C A. C; O'Ponnell, D V ; Wesson c C-Hurren. C-Hurren. Utah; Evanf., Utah; Crawford' Minos; Croft, U. A C, Conroy I, A C.; Beal D. U., Qulnlen, C. U. . Young, B. Y. L Bowman. D. U.; Anderson U J?,-1. tn,?V. rtah; Jewkes, Utah; Watss, c c ; BfcWhorter, Mines The conference received two baby members from the B Y I' of Utah and the University of New Mexico' this season While It Is true that these elevens were defeated It will onlv be a few years before they will be competing com-peting for tho championship. |