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Show 1921 <-> UTONIAH I Thornton Morris End Captain Elect Captain Elect Victor Taufer End Rocky Mountain Conference Team UTAH FOOTBALL REVIEW Welcome Utah! The Mormon has come. From across the desert wastes of Utah-from the Lakes of Salt-he comes to the Sunny Southland. He comes hungry for the meat of Troy. Thus were the Redskins, led by Ben Lingenfelter, greeted by the Trojans of the University of Southern California in the opening tilt of the season. "A stubborn eleven from the University of Utah, wearing crimson jerseys that looked for all the world like those worn by Stanford, and playing a brand of ball that would not be a discredit to them, met Southern California punch for punch, and gave the natives of this town such an interesting time of it while the game was in progress that before they were at last brushed aside by the score of 28 to 2 they made us look twice at our program, to be sure that we hadn't mixed, our dates." This is a report of a native Californian newspaper, and from it we can gather that the boys certainly acquitted themselves well on the coast. Taufer and Morris, giant Ute ends, were lauded by critics for stopping the heralded running attack, headed by Daer and Elliot. Another report states that Captain Livingston could make a halfback position on any team in the west. In fact, if the Utes had 164 %j}flfjl Calvin Boberg Quarterback Rocky Mountain Conference Team Jack Howells Halfback 7Lo u n d Up 71 u m |