Traditions & culture take the field at halftime during Utah’s Ute Proud game

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September 19, 2025

By Lisa Anderson, Utah Magazine, University of Utah: This Saturday at Rice-Eccles Stadium, Utah Football will honor a tradition that extends beyond the gridiron: the University of Utah’s annual Ute Proud game. Players wear specially designed Ute Proud helmets, and members of the Ute Indian Tribe perform traditional dances and songs at halftime to celebrate the culture of the Ute People, whose name the university and state carry.

Both Utah and its flagship university sit on the historic homeland of the Utes, who call themselves Nuuchu. The Ute Nation once spanned most of Utah, Colorado and northern New Mexico, long before European settlers arrived. Three federally recognized tribes use the Ute name: the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of Colorado, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of Colorado and Utah and the Ute Indian Tribe—also known as Northern Ute—located on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northeastern Utah.

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This Saturday, Utah Football will honor a tradition that extends beyond the gridiron: the University of Utah’s annual Ute Proud game.

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