The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-07
UTAH HAS HAD
GLORIOUS YEAR
Big School on Hill Easily Ath-
IetiC Champions of 1903
for Rocky Mountains.

The greatest year in athletics at tn,
university was brought to a close LAS
week. when the athletes broke train.
ing after their victory over the Stan.
ford track team. In every sport tina,
the big institution had entered a tear
they have come out on top, in football
and track winning the acknowledged
superiority of the Rocky mountain re.
gions and tieing for the state cham.
pionship in baseball.
From the time that U defeated Den.
yer university in the first football
game of the season until the crack
athletes from Stanford were downee
in the last athletic contest OF the yea
ii has been a glorious record OF vic
tories for the Utah school. The sea
son has demonstrated more cleariy
than ever that there is one thing II
which Utah excels Colorado, and that
is in college athletics For years the
representatives Of these two states
have fought IL out on these lines, bur
the performances Of the last two Year,
indicates beyond all doubt that the
hOnOrs rest with Utah.
During this season Utah has accom-.
plished the browning svents In this
athletic career OF the school The hrsi
was the defeat OF ths Colorado Schoo
OF Mines in football. and the second
was the victory over Stanford univer.
sity in track and field meet.
Defeat Of Golden.
II is the first Of these that Is The
pride of the university students. for
the Golden Miners. the only team IN
the Rocky mountain region that had
not been defeated by Utah, boastso
4
coming over here TO meet. but finally
consented to play, as they needed 8
practice game before their larger con.
tests. The result was that IN ths
greatest game Of football ever played
on the local gridiron the Miners were
defeated by a score Of 16 to 10. There
was another aggregation Of athletes
that thought they had better stop OF
in Salt Lake to timber up. This was
the Stanford track team, which, after
cleaning up everything on the coast.
was taking a 2.OO0-mile trip to COM
pete with the best colleges in the
country. A score of "a to 50 was what
happened to them, but the university
students do not relish this victory a.
they do the one over the Colorado
Miners because Of the manly sports
manlike spirit OF the coast athletes
Aside from these two successes. Utah
scored many more this year. Colorado
college was defeated here on Thanks
giving day by a score Of Is TO 10 in one
Of the most spectacular games Of the
year.
Track Team Wins Every Meet.
The trackteam won every meet IL
entered, besides carrying of the state
meet by a large margin. Aside from
victories, the season has brought out
some valuable men to the school and
has added and developed others. Rich
aTdsOn and Convill were both I'm.
known before this year, and they are
both a power in football and track
Grant, Home, Morris, Houstan, Fer
guson and HoldsWorth have proven
excellent football material Bill Hunt
the old u warhorse, and Dell Judd are
valuable additions TO the track team
and Brinton, Maddock's sprinting
wonder. is showing up better thar
ever and succeeded this year in defeat
ing his old rival McAllister. Almost
all of these men will be back in the
ranks next year. with other stars who
have been on the teams this year
One OF the most remarkable figures in
the athletics of the state has finished
his career. This is Cuddy Russell. the
old standby in football and track
With the athletes under such leader1
ship as Convill in football. and Hunt
I'm track, and coached by Joe Maddox,
who is individually responsible for a
great part Of Utahs athletic successes.
and Coach Milne of the l. D. S. Q.
who Joins the ranks at the u next fall,
the university has great hopes In ath-
letics next year.