their football programs as well. Basketball took second place to football during most of the interwar period. The Wildcats, however, usually did well in their division of the Intermountain League, taking second place in the conference tournament in 1926, 1927, and 1928. A revival in Webers basketball fortunes occurred during the 1937 season. With a team composed primarily of freshmen, Swenson guided the group to a 21-3 record, winning the Utah division of the conference but losing the overall championship to Ricks College in a three-game series. The veteran team in 1938 won the league title, however, by defeating Albion in the final playoffs. Since no national junior college tournament existed at the time, Swensons team entered and won the State AAU basketball tournament. This entitled them to enter the National AAU tourney in Denver where they lost their first round game to the Harmon Demons of Chicago 48-45. During the 1939 season Weber took third place in the conference but still won the state AAU tournament for a second straight year. Playing in the National AAU tournament, Weber won its first game against Southwest Teachers College of Missouri but then lost to the Olympic Club of San Francisco by two points.During the early 1940s Webers basketball team remained competitive within the Intermountain Conference. In 1942 they defeated the University of Idaho, Southern Branch (Pocatello), were 8-4 in regular season play, and then defeated Branch Agricultural College 59-42 and Dixie 56-40 for the conference championship. Center Jay Hancey and guard Wat Misaka were both selected to the all-tourney team and Misaka, Webers captain that year, was named the tournaments Most Valuable Player. Weber did field a basketball team during the war years but at a substantially reduced level than before. In 1943 the Wildcats played area service teams and the varsity squads of Utahs major schools, losing twice to Utah State and once to both Utah and BYU. A conference tournament was held in Cedar City to conclude the season. Only four of the leagues schools were able to enter, including Weber, with independent teams completing the field. Records for the 1943-1944 and 1944-1945 seasons are incomplete but suggest that Weber primarily played the reserve squads of Utahs major schools and teams associated with Northern Utah defense installations. During the Stevenson era from 1924-1925 to 1932-1933, the athletic program beyond football and basketball was very limited. In track and field Weber occasionally competed in dual meets against other junior colleges. The single major meet scheduled for the team was the competition arranged annually by BYU in track and tennis for area schools. Meet directors did not keep team scores but the Intermountain Conference designated it as their own spring championships until 1933-1934 when they set up their own separate conference championships in track and tennis. Weber apparently did not win a conference track championship during the 1930s but did generally place second or third. Webers premier runner during this period was Willie Thomas. The Kansas City native competed for Weber during the 1940-1942 seasons, serving as captain during his last year. In 1941 Thomas tied the conference record in the 100-yard dash, broke the league mark in the high hurdles, won the low hurdles, missing the conference mark by one-tenth second, and, for good measure, took third in the discus. Thomas, Ray Freeman, and LaMar Green all represented the college at the national junior college track-meet. Green placed third in the two-mile run and Thomas took fifth in both the high and low hurdles. The college fielded teams at least occasionally in other sports such as wrestling, boxing, fencing, and golf. Tennis teams entered the annual spring sports festival at BYU and in the separate league championships created in 1933-1934. Records are not always available but Weber apparently won the conference championship in 1934 as Ralph Clark copped the singles competition and Stan Benson and Jim Sundquist, the defending champions, took second in the doubles. Few intermountain junior colleges possessed indoor swimming pools, as Weber College did after 1924, so Wildcat swimmers generally competed against area high schools, Utahs major colleges, and regional competitors. Webers 1940-1941 and 1941-1942 swimmers were highly regarded for victories over major universities in the Far West and Rocky Mountain region. Immediately after World War II Weber seriously sought to expand its athletic program through membership in a new athletic conference. School officials particularly desired a league that included such Southern California schools as Pasadena, Compton, and Long Beach as well as Phoenix Junior College in Arizona. Although its first two post-war basketball teams of 1946 and 1947 won conference titles, Webers first post-war football team of 1946 played an independent schedule composed primarily of California schools. The Wildcats then withdrew entirely from the Intermountain Conference for the 1947-1948 season and all of its teams competed as independents that year. When membership in a new league failed to materialize, Weber re-joined the Intermountain Conference in 1948-1949. Webers search for new forms of athletic competition beyond the Intermountain region were resolved, however, by the creation in 1947-1948 of the National Junior College Athletic Association. One of its chief benefits was sponsorship of national competition in several sports, particularly basketball and track. Reed Swenson was instrumental in its organization, served as a vice-president during its first year of existence, and then as president for thirteen years from 1949 until 1962. Webers Lawrence Burton also served for several years as the editor of its official journal. After Weber re-joined the Intermountain Conference in 1948-1949, the Wildcats generally played four or five league foes annually in football and continued to schedule many California junior college powers, including Compton and Pasadena, as well as regional opponents such as Eastern Arizona and Mesa College of Colorado. Weber established a conference record of 30-29-3 through the 1961-1962 season. The Wildcats greatest nemesis was Boise Junior College. Weber tied the Broncos 0-0 in 1946 and then suffered fifteen consecutive defeats to the Broncos, who dominated the league in football during the post-war period. Although a few of these losses to Boise were one-sided, hard-fought, close games were also typical of the series as Weber lost 13-7 in 1947, 8-0 in