1950,13-12 in 1951, and 26-24 in I960. The last seven football contests between Boise and Weber were fought for possession of the Wooden Indian, a cigar store trophy that never left Boise. Milt Mecham became Webers football coach only a short time before the 1946 season began. From 1946 to 1951 Mechams teams were successful against strong in-tersectional and league foes alike, posting a 29-24-3 record. After a decline in Webers football fortunes in the mid-1950s, Wally Nalder succeeded Mecham as head coach beginning with the 1956 season. Nalder directed Webers football through the end of the junior college period and the first three years of four-year competition in 1965. His overall record for six years of junior college football was 24-30-2, with a 17-10-1 slate during Webers final three junior college years. This included Webers sole post-war conference football championship during the 1959 season. The Wildcats then were 6-4 overall and 4-1 in the league. Webers most successful teams under Mecham and Nalder featured a strong rushing attack generated primarily by the single wing and occasionally the T-formation. This program produced excellent running backs such as Brent Hancock, Terry Van Vleet, and Lynn Corbridge. Outstanding linemen also made important contributions to the program. LeRoy Overstreet was selected in 1958 as a first team Junior College All-American end, and Lynn Foxley was chosen for the same honor in 1959-Overstreet, Foxley and quarterback Lynn Smith were also selected to play in the National Junior College All-Star football game. The colleges football teams played their home games in Ogden Stadium at Lorin Farr Park for decades but were forced to practice at various sites much closer to their downtown campus, including Tabernacle Square, the present site of the Ogden LDS Temple, and Monroe Park. Webers football program benefitted greatly from the construction of Wildcat Stadium in the early 1950s. The stadium was officially opened with Webers first game of the 1953 season, a 12-0 loss to San Diego Junior College. Wooden bleachers along the east side of the stadium originally provided seating for 3800 fans but were soon replaced by a concrete structure and additional seating was added later along the same side. The west stadium and press box were constructed in 1966. Webers postwar basketball program firmly established the tradition of success that has characterized basketball at Weber ever since. When Weber College first resumed regular basketball competition during 1945-46 and 1946-47, the Wildcats played a home-and-home series against Utah State during both seasons. The Wildcats twice lost the first game of the series on the road to the Aggies but took the second game in Ogden. Webers win in 1947 was the last encounter between the varsity squads of both schools until 1971. It also allowed Wildcat fans to claim that they had beaten the team that beat the national champions as a result of Utah States victory over the University of Utah, the 1947 NCAA champions. These two teams also won Intermountain Conference basketball championships. Don Jesperson, Fred Stringham, and Joe Kenny were mainstays of these squads which also participated in the Western States Tournament held in Compton, California. After returning to the Intermountain Conference in 1948-1949, the Wildcats won six additional league crowns in 1950,1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 and in 1962 when they shared the title with Ricks and the College of Southern Utah. Weber participated in post-season tournament play fifteen times after World War II. In addition to its three appearances in the Western States tournament, Weber participated in the Region Four or Region One tournament twelve times, winning it on seven occasions in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1958, 1959, I960, 1961, and 1962. Advancing therefore to the 16-team fold of the National Junior College Tournament in Hutchinson, Kansas, Weber placed sixth in 1950, second in 1958, first in 1959, and fifth in 1961. Three players from this era were honored as First Team Junior College All-Americans: Darrell Tucker in 1950, Allen Holmes in both 1958 and 1959, and Gene Kunz in I960. Kenny Berrett was also named the Most Valuable Player of the Western State Tournament of 1948, Bob Subic received honorable mention All-American recognition in 1955 and Eddie Tillman was placed on the All-American second team in 1961. The original architect of this basketball dynasty was Reed Swenson. Having begun at Weber in 1933-34, Swenson acted as head basketball coach, athletic director, president of the NJCAA, and head of Webers physical education program until he relinquished his coaching duties in the spring of 1956 after 23 very successful seasons. Bruce Larson coached at Weber College for only two seasons, 1957-1958 and 1958-1959, but filled them with accomplishment. William Mann remained at Weber for only one season, 1959-1960, but the Wildcats maintained their string of league titles. Dick Motta, arriving in 1960-1961, then wrote an impressive end to Webers junior college basketball history and initiated Webers four-year program. The formula devised by all of these coaches was fundamentally the same. Working primarily with athletes from the Ogden area, the Wildcats invariably began their seasons with long road trips by car and hearse to the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, or Southwest, often playing seven or eight games in as many days. Weber lost many of these early season contests against teams which, like Weber, were frequent visitors to the Hutchinson tournament in March. After a brief Christmas break, Webers teams were usually ready for the demanding league schedule and non-conference games against regional rivals such as Mesa College of Colorado and the frosh units of Utahs major schools. Larsons brief tenure at Weber was particularly successful. In 1958 the Wildcats fashioned a 23-6 regular season record and defeated Eastern Arizona in the regional tournament to qualify for the national tournament. Led by Allen Holmes, Frank Berrett, Ron Swenson, Roger Tomlinson, Blair Fowers, and James Brittain, the Wildcats then registered wins against North Greenville (South Carolina) 77-74 in overtime, Ely Junior College (Minnesota) 68-51 and the number one-ranked Cameron (Oklahoma) Aggies 74-71 to advance to the championship game against Kilgore Junior College (Texas). Hampered by foul trouble throughout the game and out-rebounded on the boards by the Texans, Weber took second place in the tourney in a 68-57 loss. It was Larsons second straight finish as the runner-up coach, having also taken an Eastern Arizona team to the na-