formed for the community as well as plays put on by individual classes for fellow students. The 1917-1918 play Strongheart included 31 members in its cast and was performed at the Orpheum in Ogden and in Provo. In 1919-1920, the play chosen to be presented by the College was The Fortune Hunter. In May of 1920, under the direction of William H. Manning, Weber students performed their first opera A Nautical Knot at the Orpheum Theater. The orchestra for the opera was directed by professor Ernest W. Nichols and was made up of Weber students. The Weber Herald, the official newspaper of the Weber Normal College as it was called was first published during the 1916-1917 school year. Published in newspaper style, the four-page paper printed adjacent to its masthead such slogans as Boost the School, Boost the Gym, Support the Football Team, Support the Advertisers, Support the Glee Club, Cheer our Men on to Victory, and Attend the Alumni Play. The Herald reported the September 30,1919 visit of President Woodrow Wilson to Ogden and the dismissal of school in honor of the visit. President Wilson was stumping the country to promote the involvement of the United States in the League of Nations and When the presidents party passed, Weber, true to her old traditions, gave him a rousing welcome. In August of 1919, the Church Board adopted a policy permitting football teams to be organized at Church schools. In September of 1919, Coach Malcolm Watson announced that the College would field a team that fall, and 27 players began to practice. Watson had been the coach of Webers athletic teams during the past five years and now would add football to thesports he coached. Watson spent the summer of 1919 studying the science of football and also spent some time in Salt Lake City with Tommy Fitzpatrick, the football coach at the University of Utah to learn the rudiments of the game. During the first season Watson was assisted by Ed Peterson, a former grid star at the University of Utah. Orval Carstensen was the student athletic manager and Joe Brewer the captain of the team. Weber played its football games on a dirt playing field at Glenwood Park (later known as Lorin Farr Park). During this first football season, Weber played 8 games, 6 in Ogden and 2 away. The away games were played at Brigham City and at Granite High School. Weber won 2 games, defeating Davis High School and L.D.S. High School, and lost games to Box Elder, Brigham Young College, the American Legion, Ogden High School, and Granite High School. By 1920, Weber had been in existence as an educational institution for slightly more than three decades, and had moved from an institution offering preparatory and high school education to an institution offering high school and college courses. The new higher level courses required better trained faculty. The Weber Academy had survived and prospered while many other Mormon Church Academies had been closed. Enrollments at Weber continued to climb, buildings had been built, remodeled, and improved. Extracurricular activities brought more attention to the school. Weber would move completely away from high school courses to be a junior college early in the decade of the 1920s. Footnotes Chapter Two 1. Minutes, General Church Board of Education, May 27, 1903. 2. As quoted in Hall, pages 51-52. 3. Ogden Standard Examiner, December 13, 1902. 4. Ogden Standard Examiner, February 13, 1903. 5. Letter from Arthur Winter to N.C. Flygare, John Watson, and David O. McKay, February 20,1904. Second letter book, Church Board of Education, L.D.S. Archives. 6. Weber Academy Board of Education minutes, July 6,1904. 7. Deseret News, May 29, 1908 8. Address by David O. McKay, Weber College, October 1, 1956 as quoted in Hall, page 57. 9. Minutes, General Church Board of Education, July 30,1908. 10. Standard Examiner, February 12,1909. 11. The Morning Examiner, August 1, 1908. 12. The Morning Examiner, April 24, 1909. 13. Weber Academy faculty meeting minutes, September 27, 1910. 14. The Evening Standard, April 22, 1911. 15. Hendersons letter is recorded in the Weber Academy Board minutes. 16. Letter to State Board of Education from O.J.P. Widstoe, Frank L. West, and E.J. Norton, July 27, 1917. Copy in minutes, Weber Academy Board of Trustees, Weber College Archives. 17. Minutes, Weber Normal College Board of Trustees, October 3,1917. 18. Minutes, Weber Normal College Faculty, Fall 1918. 19. Minutes, Weber Normal College Board of Trustees, January 7,1920. 20. As quoted in the 1951-1952 Weber College Handy Book, page 14.