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Show Review of the Basketball SeasonFROM the very beginning of the season the prospects for a winning basketball team were unusually bright. With practically all ofthe 1912 team, and an abundance of excellent Freshman the outlook was very promising. But it was an extremely fortunate thing that there was so much good basketball material, for at mid-year five good players, but questionable students were "plucked" from the squad. Any other year this would have spelled ruin, but this year it only meant harder work and a slight re-adjustment of the team.Even more than the football team, did the 1913 basketball team make history. Utah defeated the B. Y. U. and won the State Championship for the first time since the introduction of basketball. No where in the country is basketball played so well as in Utah, so it follows as a matter of course that any time the "U" can win the State title, the Rocky Mountain Championship can also be annexed. In a three-game series with the University of Colorado, champions of Colorado and Wyoming, Utah's quintet won the undisputed Rocky Mountain Championship. This claim was strengthened by the team's invasion of the north, on which trip victories were scored against three strong Idaho teams, the University of Montana, and the Montana Agricultural College. |