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Show as they had never been stirred before. The arrogant Coloradans came, their colors flaunted in the mountain breeze and their very exhalations spelled victory. The whistle blew for the game to start. Like demons the Utah team tore into the line of the Miners. The quick formation acted like grape shot in their ranks. And at the end of the conflict the confident foe lay vanquished behind the breastwork of their conceit.Utah's next game was with St. Vincent College. In this contest Utah was defeated by a score of 11 to 5, due not so much to superior playing on the part of the opponent, as to the climatic conditions. Still full of hope, Utah returned and the following week handed the Utah Agricultural College a package which said 10 to 0.The Aggies had a new coach; they were full of hope and brimming over with confidence. Had Utah lost, she would have been vanquished for the season; but she won; not by luck, but by better football. The Aggies realized that they were outclassed.But Utah's path was not totally strewn with victories. The following week she went to Boulder and was defeated fairly and squarely by an enthusiasm which seemed invincible. In the first half Utah had the game won, but in the second half she was completely overwhelmed by the onslaught of the Boulder-ites supported by their five thousand loyal rooters.But the Thanksgiving game with Colorado College was one of the most brilliant and spectacular in the football history of Utah. Six thousand spectators surrounded the gritty warriors and saw the first half end with the score standing 4 to 4. At the beginning of the second half the Tigers waded through Utah's line at will, and in three minutes landed the pigskin behind the uprights. This stirred Utah's blood, and by hard fighting she, too, won a touchdown. Conville, however, failed to kick the goal, leaving the score still in Colorado's favor. The Tigers thought the game won, and quietly waited for the final whistle. Even when Utah finally forced the ball to their twenty-five yard line the Coloradoans had no thought of defeat. At this point Ferguson went into the contest, and on the first line-up coolly but surely drop-kicked the ball squarely between the goal posts. For a moment an awful stillness rested over the gridiron, then with one mighty accord the six thousand voices broke out as one. Utah had won the game!(180) |