FOOTBALL WITH the football season close at hand, it became the concern of the loyal Weber students as to who would assume the responability of building a team to uphold the Weber tradition of winning football championships. Pessimistic persons about the school expressed great doubt that with Stevenson away, anything could be done about a football team. At the opening of the football season we found the situation thus: Coach Stevenson on a year's leave of absence, studying and coaching at Berkeley; five Junior College championships to be defended; a trip to Honolulu facing an acceptable Weber team; and three hundred and fifty anxious students demanding that Weber's honor be upheld. Enter a new character into the story. The worthy authorities had recruited an old Weber "grad" and athlete, well versed in the methods of Stevenson and able to expound to the men with whom he worked, the art of the game Bramwell, or Delt, as he was more commonly known around school, became the new mentor and began to tug at Steve's shoes. How well he wore them will be seen later on in this narrative. The call to colors-black and blue. Perhaps it was the promise of a trip to Hawaii, or perhaps it was the craving for the contact, the fight or the desire to do something for Weber that brought an exceptionally large group out in the moleskins the first night of the work- out. Coach Bramwell wore a broad smile when he saw nine of last year's men troop onto the field. Nine members of last year's squad were back, but not one of them was sure of a position on the team for this year's battles Even "Buas" Woods deserted his Dost of Cheer Leader to go out for the team. Needless to say, however, that "Bugs" was on the firing line. putting life into the "twelfth man" when the team appeared for the first game. But, that is another part of the story. Now we have the characters of the great college drama of football. The setting for the first act is the Lorin Farr Park. The stand is filled with Wildcat supporters. Who is this prancing out before us? Gealta gallops down the field, medicine case in one hand, water pail in the other. A faint cheer; "Bugs" waves his arms and shouts. "Three hip-hurrahs for B. Y. U." A roar! "Bugs" goes crazv and is almost kncoked down by the sudden on-rush of the Wildcats as they follow Captain Wangs- gard onto the well-marked gridiron. Pssssssst boom! Weber is embarked on her journey toward another football championship. WILDCATS WIN FIRST GAME OF NEW SEASON; JOE CLAPIER SPEEDS 45 YARDS ON TRICK PLAY FOR ONLY SCORE OF SPIRITED BATTLE ON LOCAL GRIDIRON; WILKENSON IS OUTSTANDING PERFORMER FOR VISITORS. Thus read the STANDARD-EXAMINER the next evening. Delt set grimly to work in preparation for the Albion game. The setting for act two of the little informal drama is in Albion, Idaho. Says a dispatch from Albion, BOTH TEAMS DISPLAYED A BRAND OF WIDE-OPEN FOOTBALL THAT MADE THE CONTEST AN UNUSUALLY FAST ONE. FOR WEBER, MOEINGER, BUDGE. CLAPIER, RUSSEL, O. WANGSGARD AND K. WANGSGARD PLAYED THE BEST BALL; SIMPSON WAS OUTSTANDING FOR ALBION WITH YOUNG, PERRINGS, HATCH, BUEHLER ALSO STARRING. A dispatch to the STANDARD EXAMINER begins: UNCORKING A DAZZLING OVER- HEAD AND RUNNING ATTACK, WEBER COLLEGE OF OGDEN TROUNCED ALBION NORMAL HERE THIS AFTER- NOON BY AN 18 TO 7 SCORE. Brief curtain while the players prepare for the next act. In November, Coach Bramwell, Manager Gealta, the squad, and about twenty-five hearty rooters joined the birds in their immigration to the South, but lo, when they got there they found more Snow waiting for them than they had seen for a long time. What's Snow to a bunch of Wildcats, anyway? The royal visitors from Ogden followed the brass band up the street, feasted as football players usually feast before a game, watched "Bugs" run a foot race with a Snow merry maker, and then marched forth to the field of battle to help Snow celebrate their annual Home Coming and Founders Day. Did they celebrate it? FOOTBALL WILDCATS WALLOP SNOW; CHAMPIONS IN FORM; WEBERITES WIN HANDILY IN HOME COMING TILT ON EPHRIAM LOT. Delt, how could you spoil a perfectly good Founders Day by melting all Snow? And then while the orchestra was still playing a grand finale, some scoundrel began a campaign to sell enough tickets for the Ricks game to land the whole team in Honolulu. It was a good idea at that. Weber needed at least two thousand dollars. The most feasible means of procuring the funds lay in the gate receipts of the remaining football games, in the dances that would be staged, and in the contributions that could be gathered. The Chamber of Commerce and all civic organizations immediately offered their support, and we thank them for their very worthy efforts in aiding us to send a team to Hawaii. The scene of the next act opened before a comparatively large crowd who had braved the elements to watch one of the greatest foot- ball contests ever staged at Lorin Farr Park. Weber and University of Idaho, Southern Branch, took turns punting and passing up and down the field. The mud and water tended to slow down the game as far as actual sensation was concerned, but the evenness of the two aggregations more than offset this draw- back. Both teams failed to score in a number of places where it seemed inevitable that they should. Anyway, it was a grand old "swim" with the score at the end standing 6-6 for either team. One more act, Delt, and it's all over but the shouting. Words fail me. Words failed everyone after the Weber-Ricks game. No, not everyone. "Al" Warden kept his head and recorded a few impressions of the big affair. SENSATIONAL GAME HAS FANS ON TOES FOR FOUR PERIODS; VISITORS SCORE IN FIRST THREE MINUTES OF PLAY; WALLACE JONES BIG HERO: PARKINSON AND PETERSON CLEVER: OGDENITES AND GRID LOVERS OF OTHER SECTIONS OF UTAH AND IDAHO WHO WITNESSED THE STRUGGLE PRONOUNCED IT SENSATIONAL, DRAMA- TIC, THRILLING; SATURDAY'S CONTEST BROUGHT JOY TO THE YOUNGEST COACH IN THE STATE AND PERHAPS IN AMERICA, DELTON BRAMWELL, WEBER MENTOR, HAD CAUSE TO WEAR A BROAD GRIN WHEN HIS MEN WALKED FROM THE FIELD. BRAMWELL UNDERTOOK A MIGHTY TASK WHEN HE STEPPED INTO MERLON STEVENSON'S SHOES, BUT HE FILLED HIS POSITION WITH SPLENDID RESULTS. All hats off to Weber, Champions supreme in Junior College Competition! And Alyson Smith seemed to keep his wits about him. What he says: TAKING THE RECORDS OF THE GAME IN FIGURES. THE SUPERIORITY OF WEBER OVER HER NORTHERN OPPONENTS IS EVIDENT. FROM THE GRANDSTAND THE FIGHT PUT UP BY THE RICKS BOYS DID NOT SEEM TO LEAVE SO MUCH MARGIN IN FAVOR OF THE WEBER ELEVEN. BUT FIGURES DO NOT LIE, ALTHOUGH OCCASIONALLY LIARS FIGURE. Our old friend Maurice Howe seemed to think that the Saturday game was the game of the season. Says Howe: WHAT A GAME. WEBER'S TRIP TO HONOLULU WAS ASSURED SATURDAY WHEN TWO THOUSAND PERSONS BRAVED A CHILL NOVEMBER DAY TO SEE THE HOME TEAM WALK AWAY WITH THE INTER-MOUNTAIN JUNIOR COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP BY DEFEATING RICKS COLLEGE OF REXBURG, IDAHO; THAT MAN ROGER WOODS, ALIAS "BUGS" HAD A HECK OF A TIME WITH HIS YELLING. AND EVERY TIME HE WOULD YELL A BIG CROWD OF THOSE STUDENTS WOULD YELL BACK TO HIM, AND FIRST THING WE KNEW EVERYONE WAS YELLING. Lorin Wheelwright, playing popular school tunes on the caliope, was played onto the field to cause much shouting and commotion among the students. All in all it was a fitting close for one of the greatest football seasons of the century; and left the city, county, and state in an attitude of mind where Weber must go to Hawaii or BUST.