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Show team defeated, at the hands of the Nevadans, 14 to 7. Just as the star of Utah's success was ready to flash across the sky in one uninterrupted blaze of light, the game with Nevada occasioned food for grave thought and much questioning. Showing strength where weakness was expected Nevada proved another stigma on the Utah horizon. Rearing itself Phoenix-like from the ashes of disastrous defeats in the early season, the team was sent into the ¦;';¦¦'¦ In spite of defeats the team of 1920 was one with a comeback. Critics adjudged it down and out, but they figured without any consideration to the Utah spirit. It was this spirit that made itself felt in the Aggie clash. Lacking the services of Oswald, the Crimson fought in the last game of the season-a game that proved the team was one of the greatest that ever flaunted the Utah colors-three goals to one spelled defeat. In the light of retrospection, when the Aggie clash is viewed from the proper perspective, the 1920 season must be written down as a successful one. Boulder fray with undying spirit to win. Boulder was no match for the rehabilitated eleven into which Utah rooters had breathed some of their indomitable spirit: "Utah fights", and was forced to be an almost passive spectator to the Utah march up and down the field, until a total of 7 points was run up against it in the final period of play. Weakening under the burden of its heavy schedule Utah again fell before the rushes of the Idaho and Wyoming elevens. Four injuries marred these games for the Crimson, the injection of Stiefel into the back-field was the thing needed to bring the team up to greater possibilities. Page 119 |
