The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-29

Thanksgiving closed the football sea-
son in Utah and, while the university
did not come home with the Rocky
Mountain championship, it might have
been worse. Utah got away badly.
Those first two defeats in Colorado were
the only ones during the season, and
the writer is firmly of the opinion that
the Utah team Of the seasons end could
have changed the results had the games
be=r played within the last month
Utah's weak line lost its games I'm Colo
RADIO. but the same line strengthened
itself 10 Il remarkable degree as the
season progressed. This was shown in
both the Boulder and Idaho game. where
Utah easily eXcelied its opponents
The lesson ia ght by this season is
that Utah docs not get started soon
enough. For some reason or other the
boys do not seem 10. think il is neces-
sary to get away well to win a race.
Utah seems TO prime itself once each
year for n great victory, instead of
keeping at il for a full two months.
Work on next years team should start
now, and then perhaps Utah can come
out ahead OF them all next year.
Rocky Mountain Championship.
The Denver university walks away
with the Rocky mouutain-not inter
mountain-ehampion and here in
Utah we are glad to see the Methodists
win. Their victory is due to the efforts
Of Jimmy Garland. a former Denver
sporting writer. more than any other
person. Garland began work at the
close of last season to get an aggrega-
ton Of football players together. and
that he succeeded is plainly evident
from the list OF victories scored by
Denver l. This school has been one
Utah'g rivals for many years and. as
y.T,o
them their hardest game this year. II
is one OF the few Colorado schools that
has taken its defeats at the hand of
Utah without gTumblinS. Year after
year the Methodists have been trounced
by every body, and instead Of yelling
''robber," came back smiling Tor more.
This sort of spirit is to be admired.
and as long as the title cannot rest on
the east bench. il may go to the Den
YER I with Utah's best wishes.
Idaho Football Rival.
Utah has another rival Cor football
hOnors in the future. and that is Idaho.
Coach Maddox desired 10 extend his
field of activity this year. and picked
upon the aggregation from Moscow as
a fit competitor. The game on Thanks
giving such Is it was. shows that Ida
no has a football team, and i'm the fu-
ture Utah win have 20 defend itself
from tina. direction as we'll as from
Colorado. When the game with Idaho
was announced, il was hard to convince
many here that Idaho could play foot
bali For days before the game II was
announced through these columns that
Idaho. a fast and snappy aggregation,
would meet Maddock's team on Thaniss-
giving day but because little was
known locally Of the Team, many were
afraid il would be 2 Walkaway for the
state varsity. While il is pretty hard
to get a line on the strength of Middle
toms team from the Thanksgiving
game. yet they handled themselves well
enough to convince the 1000 who saw
them that they are not Weddings at
the game. The two teams will prob
ably meet eSain next. year, and local
fans will be interested in the outcome.
Outlook for High Schools.
The season just closed also showed
that in the future Utah may look for
ward TO some great games in the High
school class. For years IL was all the
salt Lake High school. Then Ogden
came forward, and finally All Hallows
became n factor in the championships.
This year the Granite High school
sprarg up with wonderful stride and
proved to the older schools that in tho
future all would not be clear sailing To
the southwark. the American Fork High
school has taken UP the sport. and by
next season hopes to compete with tie
older and more experienced teams Os the