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Show . ; CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor PLANS COMPLETED FOR REGION FIVE PLAT-OFF FOR TOURNAMENT SPOT ... After a lot of pressure being brought to bear on the Utah High School Athletic Council encouraging them to recognize a third team from Region Five in the Class B basketball tournament, they came forth with an idea that was agreeable to the Region Five board. Last spring they voted to have a third team from Region 5 play a third team from Region 4 for the right to play - in the annual classic. ; After agreeing to the proposition the Region 5 board early this fall met and arbitrarily decided that the second place team in the Emery-Grand-San Juan division would meet the Region 4 team in a one game' playoff . Then next year the Uintah Basin's second ranking team would enter the play-off, alternating each year thereafter. The Basin has only two votes on the board as compared to 4 in the Emery area, and with one member absent the voting was 4 to 1 for the original idea. Coaches and principals in the Basin didn't like the idea and so let It be known. . . Pressure was brought to bear and finally Dr. Aaron E. Jones, president of Carbon College and chairman of the board, called the group together to reconsider the early action . . . And reconsider it they did. According to Dr. Jones, the board's later action calls for a playoff on March 7 between the runners-up of the Emery-Grand-San Juan division and the. Uintah Basin district. The game will be played at the Carbon college gym in Price. The winner will meet the third team from Region 4, which will be determined by results of the qualifying tournament held annually in the Sanpete-Sevier-Wayne-Piute region. The second year it will be Region 5's third team against a fourth team in Region' 2; the third year, Region 6 sends its third team against Region 5, and on the fourth year Region 3's 4th team travels to Region 5. The tJHSAA has this pretty well muddled up, but since there was no chance for Region 5 to get a third team, after a playoff between the two divisions, into the annual classic, those who have battled so long and hard for recognition feel that at least they have had a partial loaf sent their way. This paper took a definite stand last spring on this issue, and although we still feel there should not be a playoff between other regions, we are able to go along with the region in harboring a feeling that a bit more recognition recogni-tion Is being given the so-called "cow counties" by the big-wigs of UHSAA. v E v" ' PROPOSED REDISTRICTING OF SCHOOLS IN UHSAA WOULD MAKE FAIRER COMPETITION I have spent some time studying the proposed re-grouping of high schools in Utah for athletic competition wherein four "A" regions would be established instead of the two hft now exists . . . The one proposal would take at least nine "B" schools whose enrollment in the upper three grades was approximately 500 or. above and make "A" schools eut of them. Geography of these schools has played a very important part in the proposal, which is as it should be. Until I moved to the Basin in the fall of , 1950 the . high school I supported was Carbon High at Price, which for u many years as "A" and "B" schools, existed was an "outlaw" no' one wanted to play ball with them, and still doesn't in spite of the fact they finally found a place in the Big Eight for football. . . They are still- wandering all over the country trying to play enough basketball games to convince the big-wigs they know how to play the game . . . The new proposal would place them in with such schools ft Spanish Fork, Springville, Payson, Lincoln and Provo. Most certainly the little "cow-towns" would have more ef an Incentive to build better basketball and football teams, because more schools would find a place in the big meet in the spring, or would be fighting for the coveted football title m the fall. Notfced where the Utah County schools had voted against the idea, which is sort of a natural thing, and no doubt wag expected by the board of control of UHSAA. There is one thing for sure, the big schools would be competing com-peting against big schools, leaving little Tintic, and other small schools in their own class. From this corner I would like to commend the officials of UHSAA for the intelligent proposal they have sent out to all high schools, and hope enough strength can be maintained main-tained and mustered that the new set-up will become effective ef-fective by next school year. v E v ; "The older I get the more I realize that youth isn't looking for advice. And even if advice is proffered, a young person will not accept it. Assistance to youth must come in the form of bridges and a smoother pathway that will - hasten his progress and advancement." When you throw mud at somebody, you're the one that's Kung grouna. ic . "We are told to pay as we go, but, after all, where are we going?" Hart County News, Munfordville, Ky. ; You don't get ulcers from what you eat, but from what's attng you. Dr. Albert Cliffe. 30 ...'..''' |