The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-02
VARSITY CLAIMS
CHAMPIONSHIP
Rocky Mountain Football Sta
tistics Show Up Local
Team Best.
HAVE LOST BUT ONE
GAME DURING SEASON
Willing to Play Colorado in
Order to Settle the
Matter.

The results of the football contests
IN Colorado on Thanksgiving have CIV
en- Utah good claim for champion
ship Of the Rocky mountain region.
Boulder played the School of Mines to
a standstill the final score being to o.
Utah defeated Boulder 10 10 0 and
hence could claim supremacy over
Golden by comparative scores.
At Colorado Springs, the University
of Denver defeated Colorado College by
a score of to 6. Utah finished d. L.
by scorA of ~ to o, but in the first
game of the season was defeated by
Colorado College, the result being o
to 0.
The only other team in Colorado Is
the Agricultural College, This school
Is out of the field because both Golden
and the Denver University won vic
tories from them
To the North. Utah defeated Mon
tana by the decisive score of ~ 10 O..
Montana has compared favorably with
the schools of the Northwest. Last
Thursday the VARSITY squad trimmed
the Aggles and settled their supremacy
IN the State.
The only school in the iutermountain
region which can lay any claim to the
Coach Maddox of the Varsity holds
that, as Colorado College has been de-
feated twice during the present season
and his team but once and then in n
nrst season game, the championship
rlghtfully belongs to Utah.
Coach Maddox is willing TO play a
post season game with any Of the Colo
RADIO teams, who feel they have look
in on the championship. So far his eff
forts to arrange {. game of this kind
have met with failure The State
School OF Mines mt Golden is forbidden
by their faculty TO play any games af-
ter the regular season is ended. Colo
RADIO College has kept mum when the
question of another game was proposed
before last Thursday. but the College
may decide TO play Utah again.
Coach Maddox is awaiting word
from Harvey Holmes relative to the
California trip which the local athletes
have been trying TO arrange, Unless
on the schedule, is arranged, the con-
test of Thanksgiving day viii be the
last of the year.
More men will leave the squad this
year than have left during any season
since Maddox took control of sports
at the school three years ago. Captain
Bennion, Half. backs Brown and Nc.
kenna, Quartcr-backs Pitt and Scran-
ton, Narley at center and Peterson at
emu WIZ leaFe tne school or have PLAYED
the limit allowed by the rules. Despite
this fact, Maddox win have a good
bunch of material to form new team
next year. Both Barton and Palm are
well-trained huskies, who will be
used for guards In the back field Cud.
dy Russell, the Heston of the West. will
be found. The men for the other two
positions. however, will be new to the
school. Sutherland will be at quarter
On the line, Ray, Bryant and Ander-
son will be in place. Besides these old
men, Maddox will have a big bunch of
this season s scrubs to choose from.
The record made by the University
this year is the best made by any team
IN the intermountain region. The
Varsity scored one hundred and eleven
points on their opponents and had but
one touchdown marked against them.
The playing of the Utah team is recoC-
nized as the fastest and snappiest in the
West. Football critics all agree that
more men ON the local squad will be
selected for the all-star Rocky Noun
tain team than from any other school
The University boys have been ex-
tremely. fortunate during the season
IN not meeting with any serious ncci-
dents. Not one man on the team suf-
fered permanent injury Russell had
the thumb on his left hand broken, but
this was the only case in which bones
were broken, Barton was the most
bruised man on the team. Prior TO the