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Show TENNIS ** ^y^ITH but four players of the seven-man team which captured the Utah state and Rocky Mountain conference tennis titles in 1926 back in togs, Coach Theron Parmelee faced a huge task to turn out a group of netters capable of defending the Crimson laurels in 1927. Captain Chick Blevins, Jack Irvine, Linden Crone, and Bill Hayden, all members of the 1926 aggregation, returned to the courts for 1927, and around these men the net coach built his varsity. Blevins and Irvine participated in both singles and doubles encounters in the majority of the intercollegiate matches, and Crone paired with Irvine against the other Utah schools. Hayden showed up excellently in the lone singles event. The fifth man to participate in the intercollegiate matches during the year was chosen for each match from among a group of players, Wallace Stegner, Jim Ingebretsen, Ralph Pugmire, Don Miles, Marshall Neff, and Dilworth Nebeker. Championship honors in the tournaments of the year were held by Chick Blevins in the singles, and Jack Irvine and Linden Crone in the doubles. Irvine won the fall singles title, but lost his crown to Blevins in the spring. "Chick" Blevins, Captain. Theron Parmelee, Coach. Blevins, Crone, Hayden, Irvine. [220] |