Wyoming at Utah

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  The Salt Lake tribune. (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, Utah, November 8, 1908, page 1

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  Green Men, in Place of Regulars, Show Up Wyoming Team. VISITORS SHUT OUT BY A SCORE OF Is TO @ Conyill, Richardson, Nelson and Walker Show Strength for Utah Boys. Seventy-6ve to nothing, with the Salt Lake students in the role of winners, tells the story Of football comedy on Cummings s field Saturday afternoon he tween teams representing the univcrsl ties of Wyoming and Utah. 1t is true that the Wyoming team was out weighed at least twenty pounds per man, but it was also ogtclassed in knowledge of the game and in physical condition, showing that it was not weight alone that enabled the Utah boys 10 play rings around the visitors. A feature of the game was the fact that two of the players made their S’U’‘ in the contest. Nelson, a green sophomore who has only recently been given serious attention by the coach, played the entire game at guard, not only winning his letter, but also dem onstrating that he can deliver the goods so well that he will probably play the position during the remainder of the season, Jesse Walker, whose football career began in the interclass series last year, played right half. and will also nave the privilege hereafter OF wearing a ‘‘U” on his sweater Quick Scoring. Convill kicked off shortly after , o’clock The ball immediately went to Utah through Wyoming’s failure to gain, and on Utah s first line up Conviii scored the first touchdown on run outside Of tackle, Just one minnie and fifteen seconds after the opening whistle. 1t was clearly evident that Wyoming was “in’‘ wrong and hadn Z chance in the world TO make a show ing, Four more touchdowns followed in rapid succession, “Tilhe’ Olson blocked kick and scored the second, while D. Richardson scored the next after pretty 40-yard run from Wyoming’s kickout after a touchback, Convill made the next on n buck, and after clever 70-yard sprint around the end by Walker, Convill made another. six chances at goal, making the score “a 10 0. Al this point the local men began to loaf, and il was fully ten minutes before Houston pushed Wyoming man over his own line for a Safety and the next score. Bennie Grant next came into the limelight and scored two touch downs in rapid succession, the first on a pretty forward pass and the other after 50-yard run through a broken field. Just before the close of the half D. Richardson missed a chance at goal from q fair catch, leaving the score ~ TO o, Slow Second Half. The second half was slower than the nrstY but the story was about the same. Convill got the first two scores; one nfter five men had made Intellectual at tempts at stopping him with open tackles Charlie Houston converted both touchdowns into goals. Car michael, who was substituted for Grant at quarter. grabbed fumbled punt and ran 30 yards for another touchdown Convill was the next man to cross the goal line, and then retired in favor of Moyle, who showed how simple it is by duplicating the trick himself. Houston missed the last two goals, and the score, 10 TO 0, seemed TO satisfy the gu” men, who let 1t go at that. Just before the call Of time Wyoming seemed to take a brace, and bucked the line for the necessary 10 four times in succession, at one time getting the ball close enough to the “U’ line to at tempt goal. The ball went wild, how. ever. The lineup:

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  The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], November 8, 1908, page 12

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  WYOMING EASY FOR UTAH TEAM Laramie Lads 0utcIassed in Weight and Football Score IS to o. Al the close OF the salt Lake-Ogden game yesterday. the stands were cleared OF spectators and Utah lined up against wyoming There was not much 10 it after the lineup, as the score OF 10 TO IN favor Of the east bench boys would Indicate. When MaddOcE’s men trouped out on The field there WAS much uncertainty az 70 what tho outcome would be. not because Wyoming was feared, but be cause the lineup Of the tah eleven was an uncerI ain quantity subject TO instant change at the whim Of the faculty Mad dock got a pretty fair bunch lined up for he kickoff. and then the fireworks started. wyoming looked weak in comparison. They were outweighed many pounds to the man. and when. on the first touch down after Utah got possession of the ball. COnviu dashed through the WyOming line for thirty yards. bowling over the Wyoming tacklers like TOYS, scoring the first touchdown inside of one minute. the finish was in sight Some may have thought 10 was an accident. but subsequent events showed IL was part OF the general plan of annihiiati0n Utah had mapped out for the day. This score was followed b. 2 series pulled off in rapid succession until a total OF seventy points had been run up IN TWO short halves. Each one was the same. Wyoming kicked whenever ii had the ball. when a couple OF end runs. or a completed forward pass gave Ctah more points. Now and then the ball went over On failed forward passes. but il was only a question of tins until again Utah man dashed over the goal line FOR q score Wyoming Wakes Up. Wyoming d.d play some football, how ever. during The game. and this was in the last five minutes OF play Here they carried the bal from their own twenty yard line TO tn Utah forty-f ive-yard line on straight football. The lighter men did remarkably wei and held the ball when time was called. II was a question of whether they would have been able 10 score. and It is extremely likely they would not have done So. vet the crowd cheered the lighter men from Wyoming on account OF the game fight they We’re putting up after having seventy-fiVe points scored against them. Wyoming was simply outclassed, but they were gamesters. Not a man was taken out. and when hit by a Utah husky. they came back smiling for more n H. They showed careful coaching. but we’re unable to work their PLAYS through weakness of their team. Utah surprised the local fans by the

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Utah leads 51–⁠31–⁠1 in 83 meetings, counting the 81 since this game.