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Show Stanford Same i M o, Stanford 30 Taekling an eleven such as Stanford just a week after our game with Colorado looked like a task for Hercules, himself, but the opportunity came so the Utes boarded the rattler again, this time for "sunny California." We decorate the words, "sunny California," not with any sarcastic object in view, for we have seen plenty of sunshine in the coast state, but on Saturday, November 8, the weather gave the locality a black eye as far as we were concerned. You've guessed it! It rained all day. And so the job assigned to the fast but light Utah backfield passed beyond the powers of Hercules and became Samsonian in size. We received our licking, all right, 30 to 0 to boot, but the boot didn't come until the final quarter. For three periods the fighting Red Devils held one of the best teams in the country to a single touchdown and one drop-kick, It scored three times in the last fifteen minutes, one on a pass, one on a blocked kick and one on straight football. These three touchdowns gave a walkaway atmosphere to the game, and only those who did not analyze the play will take away the real credit that belongs to the Utah men. Stopping iNevers, 210-pound Stanford fullback, who carried the ball on three out of every five line bucks, had its effect upon the Ute's forward wall, for bruises were pretty well scattered among the linemen when they returned. Cal Boberg was hit so hard and so often by heavier men that he was unable to report for practice for two weeks. Page Two Hundred Eighteen |