The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-01
UNIVERSITY LOSES
MANY OF ITS STARS
Every Department of Ath-
letics VIII Suffer When
Diplomas Are Presented.
FOUR YEARS OF WORK
Men Who Leave This Spring
Have Been Stone Wall
in Battles.
FOUR YEARS OF WORK

Among the students who leave the
University of Utah this spring for
good, either through graduation or for
other reasons, arc to be found some of
the best athletes that ever performed
in the state.
1t seems that the same gradual
process of matriculation and gradua-
tion which constantly maintains bal
anee in the number of students in any
particular college fails to be effective
in the supply of athletes and that good
athletes come in punches, leaving at
times gaps which cause falling off in
the standard of the college and at 9th
er times atoning for that depreciation
by rising above the average standard
of athletic efficiency,
Such is the case at the University
of Utah. -Four years ago the coach
was confronted with the serious prob
lem of developing an entirely new
fighting force. Soon he had sufficient
material to make the school strong in
every branch of athletics He had all
the good men he needed. They had
come all at once and now they will
leave all at once and again next year
the coach will be thrown upon his own
resources.
Football Stars Go.
Beginning with football, who is it
that next year s followers of the game
will misss First. there is the mighty
Lon Romncy, For four years Lon has
been balfback on the team and the
excellence of his work has gained him
an enviable reputation throughout the
MAINTAIN rau1ou and has naipa6 for
the past three wears a position for him
on the All-Rocky Mountain team
Lon is to be graduated this year,
and with him he is taking Della Ben
Mon, Sam Oleson, Duncan Gardener,
Winslow Cole, Edwin Peterson and OFT
Romney-
Dez also entered school before the
adoption of the freshman rule and
consequently has played four years on
the regular team During that time
he has performed both on the line and
behind il, and in both places has done
himself credit. Sam Oleson is another
man who has played four years. Sam =
work at tackle compares equally well
with that of Lon Romney at ha1fback
and has also gained for Sam repeated
recognition as a member Of the AL
Rocky Mountain team.
Sam IS mate at tackle, who made such
splendid reputation for himself
against Colorado last winter and was
called the "TerribIe Swede,' because
of the viciousness Of his attask, is Ed
Peterson, Ed is wonderful line man
and will be greatly missed
Will Be Missed.
Then there is OFT Bomney, who was
probably the most versatile player on
the team the past year, and who won
position on the All-Rocky Mountain
team. OFT played three years with
great success, Ex-Captain Dune Gard
ener also played his third season last
fall and his place at center will be diff
ficult to fill. Cole is splendid guard
and will be difficult man to substi-
tute for
Another great player who will be
graduated this year is the always de-
pendable Happy" Holmstead HHap-
py," because OF inexperience and the
superior excellence Of Lon Romney
was forced to sit good deal ON the
bench as a substitute. so that 1t was
not until last year that 1sHappy''
showed what he could do Lon was In
Jured and had to stay ont of the Colo
and played as strong and spectacular a
game as Lon ever played.
80 much Tor the men who will be
graduated. There is one little boy who is
as good as any Of them who will quit
school and attempt q more serious
game than football Tommy F9tEpat-
= rick, the "pepper, boz" quaxterbaek,
VIII be married this summer and viii
take up the newspaper and hotel bus.
ness.
It was these men who made the sue.
ces Of the past three years and a Rocky
Mountain championship possible,
In Basketball Division.
In basketball Utah viii meet with
eq'saly great loss. The men who have