UTAH/BRIGHAM YOUNG - of College Football Games
UTAH/BRIGHAM YOUNG - of College Football Games UTAH/BRIGHAM YOUNG - of College Football Games
A TRADITIONAL BATTLE By HACK MILLER Deseret News Sports Editor I played in a Utah-BYU football game. Back in 1934 it was. The score was for our side 43-0 Then I wU a Ute And the fact that the score was 43-0 was surely the reason I got to play. I was a fifth-ranked end - behind the lateJBnckHoggan, the late Paul Callis, Rex Beckstead and Thornley (lug; Swan. They averaged 198 pounds — I averaged 161. Moreover, they were talented. T had a chance, though, to see the overall action, lney had to worry aWthe guy in front of them. No one observes the play as keenly as us bench-warmers. With this background, I qualify as something of a historian, or observer, for this traditional tussle. Even back then there was hope that BYU would rise to become a power at the pigskin — the'Notre Dame of the West. It may be of interest that in the middle thirties Ike Armstrong, coach of the Utes, then the traditional power in Rocky Mountain football, talked about taking BYU from the Utah schedule. The reasons were not clear. But the fact that the scores were 34-7, 43-0, 29-0, 21-6, 43-0, 32-2, 18-0, 14-0 7-7 (1938) and 35-13 — for the decade — made things a little one-sided. But at the turn of the 1940's the Brigham Young athletes managed a rather decent football game, holding Utah to 12-6, then to 6-6 and winding up with a 12-7 win in 1942 (one of two for the Cougars in 39 traditional games). This brought Utah to reconsider its position and things have been highly competitive ever since. Utah won them all — except for a 28-28 tie — until 1958 when the Cougars came through with a 14-7 upsetter. Since then Utah's held the handle on the old classic. The greatest game that Utah and Brigham Young ever played was in 1953. The late Chick Atkinson was the BYU coach. That was the year Dick Romney, then Skyline commisisoner, had set up the national televsion game featuring these two teams. It was the last game of the year for both clubs. Utah was at the top of the conference, and riding the high crest. Coach Jack Curtice was as proud as a peacock. Brigham Young was at the bottom of the bunch — as low as a goat. The Utes couldn't sell the seats. They tried frantically to fill up the place so that the nation's eyeballs wouldn't view the vast sections of unoccupied seats. They even seated the Boy Scouts and others where the cameras might see them most often. The game was a tit-tat-toe tussle, right down to the wire when BYU's point-after-touchdown missed the sticks. Curtice's Utes won it, 33-32. Never has a nation talked more about a football game. Never has the Skyline country been better respected for its caliber of football. Never has BYU football been stacked so steeply. It's hassles like this one which has kept the tradition taut. Here again, the Utes should win, it has their histories in its favor. But the Cats will claw at it again. And hope for the best bounce on the ball. Get Your HUNTING INSURANCE One-Stop-Service 46 From SINCE 1911 320 East 4th South • Printed by Deseret News Press
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