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From the Friday, Nov. 16, 1934, edition of The Steamboat Pilot

Fine weather, big crowd for Armistice Day football

The Armistice Day football game between Hayden and Steamboat Springs high school teams attracted the largest attendance of any game played this year on the local field. For a few minutes, there was a congestion of cars going over the bridge, the long line extending nearly a block this side of the bridge. Alertness and nimbleness were required of those who were collecting at the two gates entering the field.

Gerald McGuire and his junior band gave the one touch of real celebration for Armistice Day, with music and marching up and down Lincoln Avenue preceding the game. The band pepped up the teams and the audience with selections between pauses.

The Hayden football team was accompanied by a large representation of Hayden residents and practically all of the high school students who gave their team plenty of cheering and rooting.

Concerning the weather, the game might as well have been played on Long Beach, Calif.

Road situation to be discussed Saturday

A thorough canvas of the entire road situation by business interests for a comprehensive study at a meeting to be held in Denver on Saturday was announced last week jointly by Gov. Ed C. Johnson and the Colorado Chamber of Commerce.

Routt County and the various towns of this section of the state will be represented.

The purpose, as set forth in the call, is a “general highway conference” to “coordinate organization activities on behalf of the promotion building and completion of federal standards, the highways of this state,” and “for the purpose of considering a longtime, state-inclusive highway building program and a method of financing the same.”

Dinosaur weighed 40 tons, had 2 brains

Much has been printed recently about the discovery of dinosaurs near Basin, Wyo., and the habits of these prehistoric lizard-like animals that roamed the plains of Montana, Wyoming and other Rocky Mountain states more than 50 million years ago. They have even been the cause of a damage suit for $25,000 in Wyoming. The landowner of whose ranch 12 dinosaur skeletons were found sued Dr. Barnum Brown, curator of the fossil reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, and others for that sum as damages for trespassing on his land.

While these big brutes weighed a lot, they were not very well-equipped with brains, though they had two, one part being in the skull where it ought to be and the other being at the base of the spinal column. Scientists tell us that some of the largest dinosaurs are known to have brains about the size of a 6-week-old kitten.

Steamboat library gets copy of ‘The New Dealers’

“The New Dealers” is now on the pay shelf at the Steamboat library. The book deals with the present doings in Washington, D.C., and will be enjoyed by those who are interested in reading “Washington Merry Go Round,” relating to the Washington gossip of a recent period.