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Show COACH TOMMY FITZPATR1CK. With the coming of Tommy to the "U", it has dawned on everyone that Utah's athletics are up to the highest standard. Other years it was said that the only possibility of Utah winning in sport was a coach who had been trained outside of the state. In other words, our own athletes were not up to standard. Then a world's basketball championship seemed to confirm this opinion. But Tommy, one of our own products, so to speak, came up to the hill, just a little over a year ago. Last year hardly counted, for he came so late, and furthermore, the war had taken many stellar men. This year seemed again to be a hoodoo, what with the shut-down for the influenza; but how Utah came back is too well known to need the efforts of a scribe. Suffice to say that we won the,state championship in true Utah style, without a defeat, but only after one of the most heart-rending fights ever seen on a local floor. We would have sworn on our chances for the national title. A fund was soon raised, and the team went to Los Angeles. Utah drew a bye the first night, and the brand of ball displayed by the rival fives seemed to augment our hopes. But we reckoned without our hosts. They did not like our style of play. In fact they were bitterly opposed to it. The first game they removed Mitt Romney for personal fouls in the first five minutes of play. And then some more. As for the rest, it needs no blackboard to demonstrate what happened. We did not win the championship, it is needless to say. But this kind of a defeat has not in the least discouraged Tommy or a single athlete, and as this goes to the printer, our Irish mentor has a baseball team that looks like a sure winner, and the track team will also uphold Utah tradition in the good old way. Page Ninety-tw@ |
