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Show The New CoachUtah was indeed fortunate in obtaining the coaching services of Nelson H. Norgren, four-letter man, who was graduated last year from the University of Chicago. Coach Norgren has made good from the start here. With anything but an encouraging prospect staring him in the face when he started football season, he has come from behind with colors flying, and succeeded in doing the seemingly impossible time and again.Coach Norgren is a rare combination of the physical and mental man. The former is attested by the m^m fact tnat ne made the four major sports at Chicago* if • l| I three years sucessively, the freshman rule prohibit-* p:'.¦,;.¦'% ^ ing a possible four-year, four-letter record. CoachNorgren is one of two men to have done this at Chicago where competition is keen and supply of good men almost inexhaustible. As for the mental part of his makeup, no better test can be appliedg • than that of looking over his scholastic records in' H jafe the Rockefeller institution.^ i .'' ? Unfortunately he has been subjected to all but>- unsurmountable obstacles at Utah. First, his foot-ball material was far below par-until he got the men working together at mid-season. Second, he lost the services of two veterans, Packer and Skid-more, in basketball. Third, at the outset of track and baseball, an embarrassing condition arose in the faculty of the University which upset not onlythe faculty but the students as well and very noticeably the athletes. However, he hai risen above all these handicaps and Utah can ask but one more thing of him, that he return next year.As a little side light on Norgren's school life might be mentioned the fact that in his senior year he was awarded the annual Chicagoan prize for being the handsomest man in college. Look at his picture and maybe you will agree with the decision. Undoubtedly you would if you saw the pictures of the other candidates for the honor.Turning to the athletic side again, which after all is the chief aim of a coach of Norgren's ability, we find that he starred especially in football. Football is a game for persons loving the strenuous and Norgren loves that. He was captain of the team in his senior year and his playing was one of the features of the season. Walter Camp chose him for his middle western all-star team and Norgren's father, always opposed to football, said of his famous boy athlete:"Nelson, I admire your nerve but not your judgment." This is a great deal for a conservative hater of football to say to a son. In baseball, the coach starred at first base. This was his favorite game, for to him it was a game, while foottall and the other events were labor, pure unadulterated labor.In track, he was a pole vaulter and weight man and also did the hurdles on occasion. His chief hobby was in hoisting the shot out of reach of the carriers who returned it to the ring for the next hurler to try for a record.COACH NELSON H. NORGREN101 |
