sweaters, were probably adopted not so much for their modesty, but for the thoroughly practical reason of staying warm. In search of a more accommodating environment, the basketball team migrated to the academy amusement hall, the new National Guard Armory, and McConies Dance Hall (later the Berthana Ball Room). One of Harkers chief accomplishments after 1908-1909 was to utilize the academys new assembly hall as a basketball court until the Weber Gymnasium was built in 1924. This was a clear advantage for the team but an overhanging balcony on one side of the hall made shots from that area particularly difficult until this impediment was eventually removed. Evidence also exists of an early girls basketball program. Although the origins of the team are as difficult to trace as that of the boys program, the Ogden Standard during the spring of 1902 reported two ladies games and later a victory by the Weber girls over a team from Brigham Young Academy of Provo 9-7. The Weber girls team of 1902-1903 won the state championship with a record of six wins and two losses. This promising program, however, was discontinued after the 1904-1905 season because officials came to regard it as too strenuous and unhealth-ful. The academy sporadically fielded teams in other sports, particularly baseball and track. Webers baseball team, for example, defeated the University of Utah 12-4 in 1903 for the state championship. The academy entered a team in the local high school baseball league from 1913 to 1916 but its record during these years has not survived. All athletic competition at Weber Academy, except for basketball, was sus-pended during 1916-1917 and 1917-1918. After World War I, Webers baseball team again participated in divisional high school play, twice losing to East High School of Salt Lake for the state championship. Competition in track and field was particularly limited at this time because of a lack of facilities. During its last years as a high school, Weber also developed a football program when LDS authorities granted approval to its academies to begin competition in the sport late in the summer of 1919- Webers gridiron schedule generally consisted of local high schools and other LDS academies during the first three seasons. Webers athletic program in 1922-1923 adjusted to the schools transition from a high school to a junior college. High school football and basketball teams were fielded, playing with the name of Weber College High School, and a junior college basketball team was also organized. Merlon L. Stevenson, who had replaced Watson as coach and athletic director one year before, was in charge of the high school football team and the junior college basketball team. Watson assisted Stevenson with the football team and coached the high school basketball squad. Webers transformation into a junior college necessitated a new athletic affiliation for the school. College officials were instrumental in the formation of the Inter-mountain Junior College Athletic League. Although membership fluctuated to some degree during the interwar years, the league generally consisted of Weber College, Brigham Young College (Logan) until it closed in 1925-1926, LDS University until it closed after 1929-1930, Ricks, Snow, Dixie, Branch Agricultural College (Cedar City), Westminster College, and Albion College of Idaho. Weber also regularly played the freshmen teams from BYU, Utah, and Utah Agricultural College in both football and basketball. During the interwar period Weber was known primarily as a football school. The tradition was established with Webers first junior college team in 1923, coached by Elvin Wilkinson. The 1923 football team posted a modest 3-4-1 record for the season but were nevertheless invited as conference champions to play Phoenix Junior College for the Western States championship. The game was played in Phoenix on Christmas Day in a drizzling rain and resulted in a 20-0 loss for Weber. After Stevenson returned to Weber College in the fall of 1924, Weber won eight more conference titles in a row from 1924 through 1931. During the first six years of junior college play the teams cumulative record was an impressive 31-7-4. They were not defeated in conference play from 1924 until Albion beat them 30-18 in 1930. One of the most satisfying victories for Weber during this period was a re-match in 1924 with Phoenix Junior College for the Western States championship. This time the game was played in Ogden in numbing cold and a snowstorm, weather presumed to favor the home team. Sherman Pete Couch, Webers fullback, was the star of the game through his punting, a pass interception, and touchdown which contributed to Webers 33-0 triumph. An interesting football foe for Weber College in 1928 and afterwards was McKinley High School of Honolulu. Al Warden, the sports editor of the Ogden Standard Examiner and a good friend of Webers athletic program, assisted college officials in securing an invitation for Webers football team to play McKinley in Honolulu. McKinley defeated Weber 13-7 in December of 1928 but the contest established a close relationship between Weber and the Hawaiian high school. Weber entertained the McKinley team in Ogden in 1929,1931, and 1933 and Webers football team returned to the islands for another game with McKinley in 1932. After the end of World War II, Weber again journeyed to the islands to play a team of McKinley alumni in 1946 and the Hawaiian group visited Ogden for two games in the fall of 1947. Webers football fortunes declined in the mid-1930s but conditions improved again for the Wildcats later in the decade, being 5-1-1 in 1938 and 7-1-2 in 1939. Weber was able again to win the Intermountain title in 1937 with a 3-3-1 record because all of its losses were to non-league foes. Merlon L. Stevenson coached Webers teams from 1921-1922 through 1932 with the exception of 1923-1924 and 1928-1929 when he was on sabbatical leave. Delton Bramwell replaced him as coach for that year. Reed K. Swenson succeeded Stevenson as athletic director and coach of the schools football and basketball teams in 1933-34. He also held a full-time teaching position as head of the physical education program and periodically coached teams in track, golf, tennis, boxing, and wrestling. Robert Davis replaced Swenson as head football coach in 1937-1938. Halfway through the 1942 season, Weber was forced to abandon its football program as players enlisted in military service and injuries befell those remaining. The rationing of gasoline and tires made travel difficult and other league schools were abandoning