University of Utah - Utonian Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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FOOTBALL SEASON I J. ARMSTRONG Football Coach Football LED by Captain Jack Howells, the Red Devils held the highly touted Northwest- ern University team to a last minute 13-6 victory at Evanston in the first game of the year, and returned to defeat Colorado Mines and Boulder in the first games played in the new Utah stadium. The strain of the long trip to Northwes- ern began to tell in the next game and the Colorado Aggies handed the Redskins their first defeat in two years at Fort Collins. Utah lost its second inter-sectional clash to Creighton two weeks later and then finished up the season by romping through B. Y. U. to a victory at Provo and battling the Utah Aggies to a score- less tie on Thanksgiving Day in the final game of the year. 1927 VARSITY SQUAD FRON1 ROW, II I- 1 TO RIGHT: VAN I AW, I III lis. Dl BS, SNARR, HODGSON. DAVIS. HEIDORN, BEERS. N. DAVIS. I VANS, HARRISON. CARMAN. WDD1.L ROW CHR1STENSON, COX. POMEROY. CANNON, McBRlDE. HOWELLS, GOODWIN, PILLING, K. HARDY. TAUFER. BUDGE. JONES, TOP HOW: CAFFEY, DYKEMAN. CREER, BUR- BIDGE, FISHER, COUCH, PETERSON, CECIL, HENRY, YOUNG, G. HARDY, CLINGER, OLSON, LAWRENCE.

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MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR THE FIRST GAME IN COMPLETED STRUCTURE Then as one slowly turns to the east there seems to be a running outline of distance peaks projecting over the long rows of even and grey seats of the stadium. To the northeast the great Wasatch range is covered with white snow — there is a sense of balance with the white U. There is a feeling of bigness and sincerity in those mountains, and this feeling is enjoyed in its fullness in that stadium. But there is more still — the west — the west is the direction in which one looks in pensive and happy reflection. The evening is grad- ually approaching and with it the setting of the sun — the redness and brilliance of the set- ting sun. The glorification of such a scene is made more complete when viewed from the south end of the long rows of seats in that massive structure. Everywhere there is nature radiating its influence and power — to the north and east the green mountain sides against which the solitude of the letter is firmly settled — to the east the snow-capped peaks and rugged hills — to the west the glory of the setting sun. There in that stadium there becomes ap- parent a sense of aloofness but it is accompa- nied by warmness and a pleasant satisfaction in being a Utah Man. That is the place of the University of Utah Stadium. SECTION ol ROOTERS IN STADILM DURING MINES-UTAH TUSSLE Page 175

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FOOTBALL SEASON JACK HOWELLS Halfback, Football Captain Colorado Aggies Denver University Utah University Montana State Colorado College Utah Aggies Colorado University Brigham Young University Colorado Mines Wyoming University Western States Color do Teachers Football Summary W. L 7 6 3 3 5 3 4 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 4 5 6 T. 1 1 n o Pts. 176 120 80 50 142 109 129 106 126 35 31 27 O.P. 26 36 31 59 55 32 149 117 191 73 210 158 Pet. .875 .857 .750 .750 .714 .500 .500 .333 .286 .200 .167 .143 1928 I Rush SQUAD— FRONT ROW— SUMMERHAYS, MARSDEN NICHOLSEN, B1SHOFF, MHHKloV MARINE, ROBERT- SON GLEN l 7 i ) ROW McELROY, DAVIS. LYBBERT, C. H 1)1 K, |nl l so I IIDIK I low I I I . Al k| : K PETER- SON BACK, ROW— S1MPKINS Kill All, BAYLISS, McCARTY, BADGER, JONAS, WATKINS, GREER, GAINER, ELDRIDGE, COACH c HAMPION.