FINAL STANDING Team Pct. Weber ............... .750 Ricks ..........500 Albion .............................5 00 B. A. C..........500 Snow ..............000 Total Points-Weber 104-Opponents 47 NON-LEAGUE The non-league action was less successful for our Wildcats, but we are not alibiing when we say we were up against the toughest type of competition, and many of the defeats were hard to take. The pre-season game with the B. Y. U. Varsity reserves and U. A. C. freshmen would undoubtedly have been different reports if they had been played a little later in the year, but it's all in the game, and we did our best. B. Y. U. VARSITY RESERVES This memorable game was the first football game ever to be played in the Intermountain Region at night under artificial light. A very striking ceremony preceeded the game and a huge crowd from all over the state was on hand to view the spectacle in the new $75,000 Ogden stadium. The "Y" team was composed of varsity reserves, many of whom later saw considerable action in Rocky Mountain Conference competition before the year elapsed. They were fast and well-trained and Weber played great ball to hold them to two touchdowns. The sight offered by the two elevens promenading under the powerful light on a grassy gridiron was worthy of an artist's brush. It was something entirely different and soundly thrilling. The dewy field and strange light made passing and receiving somewhat slack during the first half, and the play was featured with quick and deceptive thrusts and spins. In the last half, however, the participants got their range and opened up with a nice aerial assortment. Probert, Staples, Biddulph, Wilkinson, and Clark, of the Provoans, showed Weber plenty of grid tricks. For the new Weber eleven, Buchalter, Read, and Francis were in the thick of the fray. U. A. C. FRESHMEN Our tussle with the Utah Agricultural College championship freshmen eleven was also fought beneath the globes and in a drizzling rain. The wet warriors slid and slipped on the grass and lost considerable yardage. Knapp was twice forced to punt from behind his own goal line in the first period and both times the soaked oval rolled off his toe into a State College player's possession for pointage. In the second quarter, Weber launched a sky attack that took the ball to the two-yard stripe from whence Francis lunged through for Weber's only score. The half ended with Weber on the A. C. nine-yard line. Wilcox took a pass from Law in the third frame and raced twenty-six yards for the last Logan flare. Law's point from scrimmage brought the final to 19-6. Law, Brady, Glenn, Bawcut, Wilcox, Frye, and Van Kampen sparkled for the Romneymen. Blackford, Thatcher, Ahlf, and Chambers looked good this night for Weber. Chambers was taken from the field, in the second quarter, with a broken bone in his foot that kept him from the majority of league games and weakened the Weber front materially. ALBION The intersectional game scheduled with Nebraska Normal was cancelled and Albion was brought to Ogden for the Armistice classic and Stadium Dedication. The American Legion and Weber College promoted the extensive exercices and the afternoon game was really a "natural." It was anybody's ball game, and Albion won the decision, 20-18, by converting the ever-important points after touchdown. Sattemer, left tackle; Buchler, end; and Shangles quarterback, were the big guns for Idaho State. Troseth got away with a nice run for Weber and the rest of the team showed fine form before the thousands who witnessed the event. President Tracy and Mayor Ora Bundy, who labored diligently for this fine community project, were among those who delivered preliminary speeches of worthy importance. This day of the Stadium Dedication was the one hoped for and worked, toward by Ogden citizens for nearly a score of years. And when B. H. Roberts delivered the inaugral address and reverently dedicated the structure to the promotion of wholesome sportsmanship and the building of sound minds in clean bodies, thousands bowed in silent acclamation and tribute to a dream come true. The fife and drum corps of the Herman Baker post nine, struck up the "Star Spangled Banner" and Old Glory was raised in honor of the World War heroes and Ogden's new athletic home. MENLO The intersectional grid dish which brought together our Intermountain Champions and the champions of California, Menlo College, Palo Alto, for the Western Championship, furnished a handsome Thanksgiving Day treat. Menlo's team was the finest combination of size and speed that we met. Everytime Coaches DeGroot and Sweet sent in a substitute the Menlo lineup seemed to take on weight and move more swiftly. The snow-lined field was a novelty for the Californains. Nearly as much a novelty as it was for them to see Quarterback Paoletti catch the kickoff behind the goal line and bring it back eighty-one yards to the Menlo nineteen-yard line while his mates mowed down the entire Blue and White team with a perfect wedge interference until a ten-second sprinter, named Rice, picked himself up and ran the midget signal-shouter out of bounds. The rest of the game was practically obscured by this initial sendoff, but nevertheless was well-stocked with good football and fine sportsmanship. Weber conceded fifteen pounds per man to the Stanford understudies, but never yielded a single yard without fighting for every inch of it. As much can be claimed for Menlo. Time and again they thwarted Weber's attempts to cross the goal line and were marvellously successful in keeping it uncrossed, as they had done in all their California contests. It was a game that deserves considerably more every detail, but must be ended by saying that we were glad to lose to such a fine institute as the Menlo men represented. 19-0 is the score we hope to revenge next year in Palo Alto. SANTA ROSA The game with Santa Rosa, December 6, is a story in itself, and it would require pages to relate every important happening that owed its origin to this splendid relationship brought about between Weber College and the Santa Rosa Junior College. Accounts of the round trip, the luncheons, entertainments, side trips, and a thousand other sidelights would only be able to do full justice to the occasion. What we are concerned with here is the game itself. It was a marvelous exhibition, colorful sense of the adjective. Minnetti, fullback, made the first touchdown after Miller, Santa Rosa halfback, had intercepted a Weber pass. Shortly afterwards a quick pass from the ten-yard line, Francis to Welch, caught the Californians flat-footed and evened the score. Miller broke through the line again to push the ball over from the 20-yard line in the last half minute to turn a tie into disheartening defeat for our Utah representatives. It was a desperate struggle throughout, and neither team held an advantage. Weber's passing threat at the opening of the final quarter was short of victory, and later a blocked punt turned the tide in favor of the Santa Rosans. Both Santa Rosa attempts to convert were blocked, but in each case Weber was ruled offside and the point allowed. It was a heavy campaign and the moleskins were packed in the mothballs on the arrival home; and many of the Wildcats had clawed their last for dear old Purple and White. SUMMARY Tradition has it that after each season, a team composed of the outstanding players of the entire league shall be chosen and termed the Intermountain Junior College All-stars. The 1930 selection, which appears in the Spaulding Football Guide as official, included four of Weber's stalwart sons; the second eleven, three; and honorable mention was bestowed on six more. Which means that these fellows were possibly a bit more salient in their playing, but in no way more responsible for the team's success than the other members who tried as hard, played just as unselfishly, and had their school's interest as much at heart. Jim Francis was named fullback and captain of the first team, and was declared the best all-around gridder in the circuit. Of Jimmy it was said, "He is one of the greatest players ever developed in Junior College competition. He kicks, passes, and runs with fine precision, and is a Gibraltar on defense." Jimmy Ing was placed at one of the halfback positions, and praised as a marvel at blocking and a bearcat at toting the leather in the open field. Knapp won one of the wing assignments. A tall and rangy end, effective at snagging or smearing passes, a capable kicker, and consistent in all departments of play. Anderson, playing his last season, was named all-conference guard for the third time. Ray's great interference running, had much to do with the success of Weber backfield artists. Many of the players on the second eleven were nosed out of first string positions by a slim margin. Weberites who earned their way into this consideration were: Lee "Swede" Valentine, tackle; Augy Ahlf, guard; and Freddie Paoletti, quarterback. The honorable mention roll credited Welch, Buchalter, Hickman, Chugg, Doxey, and Read with plenty of football ability and gridiron sense. In these three months Ogden witnessed gridiron activitiy galore. The brand of ball offered in the Jay See loop was superior to any previous year, and the competition considerably stiffer. Weber's program of league and intersectional relationships on the football field was a wonderful undertaking for a small college and carried the name of Weber College into many corners of many climes. It was a wonderful year-another team-another championship-the same Merlon L. Stevenson. Mayor Bundy; American Legion Color Guard; Menlo Men; Friendly Colors; Santa Rosa Game.