1940 Gem of the Mountains, Volume 38 - University of Idaho Yearbook

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Price Basketball, baseball and football letter winner, Whitey is one of the few ro rare this. Cottontop Price takes forestry, and goes D.G.

UTAH UNIVERSITY To Boise went a gang of students, to Boise went many people from all over the southern part of the state to see the Vandal football machine go into action against the Utah "Utes." After the game the crowd .. . went home, drowned its sorrows, or enjoyed the big city. D efinitely it did not brag of the Idaho football team. T he tes made the Idaho team look like a group of high school lads against the invincible Trojans. T he score ... 35-0 .. . goes a long way to indicate what the game was like. Idaho's only flash of power came at the start of the second quarter when La Verne Bell and 1aurice Young coupled to pack the ball45 yards in two tries. Two more first downs came on four plays, but the scoring threat terminated on the three-yard line when R ex Engelking passed far into the end zone with no receiver near the ball. One touchdown threat while the opponent ran up 35 points is what we showed the "southern homecoming" crowd.

Acuff runs into the arms of the waiting Aggies. Stoddard watches from the ground. Smith runs in hoping to he:p, but he looks a little late.

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