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Show Football at the "U11 this year was very different from the days before the war. With only four returning lettermen on a squad composed mostly of seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds just out 01 high school, Ike Armstrong had a struggle to make the Red and White of Utah come through for any showing at all. Their competition was, for the most part, among teams of experience and ability. Only two of the seven schools of the old-time "Big Seven" fielded teams (Colorado and Utah). The rest of the games were with teams like Colorado College who had half a dosen outstanding players from many of the Rocky Mountain schools stationed there with the Navy, or Ft. Warren, who boasted an all-American and a whole team of men of long football experience. -In spite of these draw-backs, however, the "youngsters at the U" improved as the season went on and nearly upset their powerful Homecoming rivals, Colorado. Also, George Bettridge and Jack Okland made the all-conference team and George was chosen to play in the mythical Shrine game in San Francisco.131 |