Clair L. Anderson, Mill Mecham, Earl Miller, plan a new line of attack. It's Al Fleming, Let Him Go!! An' He's Doin' the Mombo FOOTBALL The 1954 football season found the Wildcats facing an extremely rugged schedule with a team formed mostly of green and inexperienced freshmen. The Cats lost seven games, three of them conference tilts and the remaining four to powerful intersectional foes and University freshmen squads. Coaches Milton Mecham and Clair Anderson, however, on several occasions exploited the young squad to full potential by directing them to convincing wins over Westminster College and Mesa Junior College of Grand Junction, Colorado, and also to fine showings against 4-year Ricks College and the USAC frosh. The first game of the season pitted highly favored Ricks College of Rexburg, Idaho, against the Wildcats at the new W. C. stadium. After trailing 32-7 at halftime the Cats clawed back fiercely only to run out of time with the score 39-33 for the Vikings. Weber jumped back into the win column the following Saturday afternoon at Salt Lake City by riding roughshod over the 4-year Westminster football team, 44-14. In this game the Wildcat "T" formation operated at maximum efficiency with a destating aerial attack piling up point after point over the hapless Parsons. In the following two weeks, Ogden football fans saw two of the strongest teams to come into the area in recent years. The Boise Junior College Broncos, who were later to play in the "Little Rose Bowl" game as one of the top teams in the nation, met and defeated the Wildcats in a game that combined rain, hail and Bronco power to overwhelm our Cats. The second great team was the University of Utah freshman squad which is being carefully groomed to meet such national powers as Rice of Texas, UCLA and immortal Army. These two games were bitter but helpful lessons for the young Weber squad. After dropping hard fought games to College of Southern Utah and USAC frosh, the 'Cats started an extended road trip which carried them deep into balmy Arizona, north to the cool of Grand Junction, Colorado, and finally to the coast of California. At Thatcher, Arizona, our boys again found powerful competition in Eastern Arizona Junior College. Weber lost to the powerful southern crew by three touchdowns, but a few days later again exploded to blast Mesa Junior College 28-14 at Grand Junction. The Wildcats rested for two days before leaving for the final game of the season against Pasadena City College of Pasadena, California. The game was played in the world famous Rose Bowl. Coach Mecham cleared the bench in this final tilt, and after trailing only 7-0 at half time, the 'Cats succumbed to five P.C.C. touchdowns in the second half. First row (left to right)-Anderson, Nielson, Jones, Slater, Nielson, Cook, Mills, Foulger, McCulloch, Perkins, Richardson, Brower, Amos. Second row-Maiava, Glidden, Hall, Jensen, Porter, Huber, Stoker, Makaivi, Dawson, Ward, Price. Third row-Miller, Anderson, Fleming, Scadden, Musgrave, Call, Kaonohi, Arnold, Flint, Slater, Wolthius, Freston, Morrison, Hawks, Mecham, Pres. Miller. Fourth row - Hunsaker, Belnap, Bingham, Subic, Smith, Christensen, Hansen, Jensen, Gardner, Van De Graff, Browning, Moebas. Hey, what is comin' off here? Action, Camera, Music!!! Starting line-up: (left to right)-Lineman-Bob Browning. Maurice Hunsaker. Dennis Bingham, Riley Dawson, Steve Foulger, Darwin Van De Graaff Doyle Huber. Backfield-Bill Price, Mathew Kaonohi, Tom Musgrave, Byron Anderson Let Me Go Lover Sorry Kid. I'm comin' through