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Show Aggies, Utah had the lightest team in the Conference, and yet she had the highest scoring record. Although there were very few individual stars, the team was well balanced and worked as a unit. I was asked by a Denver newspaper man to name the men on the Mormon eleven who deserved positions on the All Rocky Mountain team. I answered him that outside of Capt. Romney, in justice to all the fellows, I could nort name any others without naming practically all of them.While the work of the backfield was of exceptionally high order, everybody should take off his hat to Utah's line, one of the best balanced, headiest, hardest fighting and most successfully working lines Utah ever had.Photo by Ben EllerbeckGlorious Celebration on Return of Team From C. C. VictoryThe only defeat of the season was due chiefly to a psychic condition of the players. I am satisfied, that, if they could have been taken out to some quiet suburb for about two days just preceding the game and kept away from the intense excitement, they would have won. Had they been older and more seasoned veterans, the spirit that ran so high would have merely placed them "on edge," but for the most part they were mere youngsters, and the vital importance of the game as expressed in every word uttered by nearly everybody, just preceding the game, was too much for them, and after the first few downs their overwrought condition was apparent. But beware of Utah in 1912, Colorado!Considering all things, the 1911 season was very gratifying to me. I have never worked with a cleaner, more earnest, more determined, more willing, and more loyal group of men. Each game they went into I could147 |