The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-29

The heroes Of the pigskin and grid
iron owned the two yesterday.
The sophs and freshies were
in their glory. Pretty maidens
Haunted the colors of their
choice and hundreds of the more
sober of Salt Lakes population were
eager spectators of the chrysanthemum
haired and mUd-bespattered cham
pions of this favorite national sport.
The weather was ideal and balmy in
the early part Of the day, but the
Eapols of unsunned mud lay all over
Ase trampled gridirom. Compared with
the amount of spongy fluid at the Elk
position and University campus, Mud
Vile was a dry stretch of prairie land
At the meeting place of the High
school heroes and the big-boned athle-
ties from the north it was ankle deep;
at the campus of the u. of U. it was
stacked even higher. The elevens went
Oh the gridirons with child-like smiles
~ their faces and gloss on their hair,
bit in ten minutes the unctous mud
had wrought such a change that even
their most devoted admirers could
scarcely recognize them.
The rich coating covered them from
their FURNISHED locks to their tan
sandals, and blush of the deepest
Vermillion would have remained UNI
seen beneath the dushy excrescence.
None of these tri1ing drawbacks,
however, succeeded in cooling their
ardor and enthusiasm and it was the
creates day fer football ever seen in
this neck of the woods.
There was an unusual amount of
dash and ginger in every game and
none Of the teams ever entered into a
more warmly contested struggle for
spigSkin honors.
Many plays of considerable bril-
Nancy We're made at both the leading
games and every ardent devotee of the
sport was kept bowling. Odell, Van
Colt. Hall, Hampstead apd the
young whirlwind Ensign, were the
lions of the day among the local men
Hampstead scored a phenomenal run
in the first half of the game at the
Exposition. He went past the Logan
ties like a flying scimeter and amid
1Eels from about six hundred tnroats
Ssried the oval away beyond the en-
e1ny and close to the goal line. Van
Colt, the heavyweight of the u. of u
distinguished himself by his stalwart
interference, and Taylor, the greatest
Roman of them all, gladdened the
hearts of The Y. NJ. c. A. by his re-
markahle GOODNESS and brilliant sprints
Largton, the grand sycamore for the
n a +1aon ola -lTy
among the imported players ,and whip
ped his men into line in a way that
astonished his opponents.
There was sadness among the big
boned athletes from the north after
their coup detat with the knights of
the High school. They went down to
defeat but it was not an inglorious
one. They contested every inch of the
muddy gridiron with their late vic
tors and showed marked superiority in
S1rm and skill over the time when the
High school youths conquered them on
their native heath. But they were still
powerless to withstand the bucking of
the boys in red anl black.
A goose egg was scored by the great,
the only, the irresistible U. of Us.
Their admirers We're puzzled and
crestfallen; the Y. NJ. C. A. adherents
We're jubiiant. They were pushed into
the mud and rolled in the mud until
they looked like they had become a
part of it. The Y. NJ. c. A. giants had
the advantage of superior weight and
perhaps little better technical train
ing Their tandem wedge was irwin
chile and they plowed through the
ranks of the school boys at will and
sifted to any part Of the field. The
christians gained the ball on the start
and it was not out OF their hands ten
minutes during the rest of the game.
Ensign made some beautiful punts.
KimbaH occasionally sped triumphant
1y off with the oval Van Colt beat
rsough the rank like a battering ram.
Nut it was all of no avail; ard the
University chargers ended the pluck
lest game of their lives with only a
cypher to their credit.