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Show Head for the H The University of Utah ski team ranked as one of the few athletic groups in this day of big time sports to boast purely local talent. In competition with teams claiming skiers fresh from the Alps or Scandinavia, the home-grown Ute slatsters emerged with an able record. Marvin Melville, selected with eight others to represent the United States in the 1956 Olympic Games at Cortina, Italy, paced the Utes through the year. Early in the season, Utah placed fourth in the Intercollegiate Ski meet at Alta. Denver's Pioneers, with many imported skiers, won this first tourney. The Utes then swept to a decisive victory in the Bozeman Winter Carnival in Montana, hardly losing a single point. The Reno Winter Carnival lured Coach John Squires and the Ute skiers to Nevada. The team placed second in this tourney, winning the downhill and slalom and threatening defending Intercol-legiate Champion, Denver. Utah placed fourth in the Lead, South Dakota, Rocky Mountain tourney as Denver, Colorado, and Wyoming swept ahead. Finally, the Utes traveled to Northfield, Vermont, for the National Intercollegiate Skiing Championships-this was the longest trip ever taken by a Utah ski team. After tabulating for the cross-country, jumping, downhill, and slalom was completed, Utah was rated the seventh best team in the nation with Denver first and Dartmouth second. |
