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Show Farmers Defeat Dixie Flyers In Conference (Jameby 7-0 Score Coaih Lot- Liiton's Branch Agr i cal-ur.il Collt-tje football team rein. re-in. until uniit'teuU'd and tied tu l i t place by tipping llielr traJ. ruiiial rivaLs. the Dixie College Fly lis. by a score ol 7 to 0 In a con liniae t!.mu- played on the Farm-t Farm-t iv ki id ion. the game not only lei t the I aimers undefeated but aLsii uiiMored upon for the season. J The game, played as a homecoming home-coming feature with a good crowd in at imlance. was strictly a defen-! defen-! sive affair from beginning to end, in .spite ol the fact that the Farmers Farm-ers dominated the play and the majority of the game was played in U.x;e territory. I The Farmers took an early lead 1 ami it looked like the Flyers were ' in for a drubbing, but from that lime on every threat was stopped short of the goal line. After an exchange ex-change of punts, the Farmers s ai led a drive with Paul Baker, : Homer Ogden and Gordon Twitchell curry. ng the ball, that put the h aimers on the Dixie 20 yard mark-i mark-i r. At this point they took to the air. and alter two passes by Baker had fallen incomplete, Verrue Theobald Theo-bald heaved a pass to Elliott Cum-1 Cum-1 ei on which was good for about 10 1 yards and put the ball inside the Dixie 2 yard line. Twitchell moved the ball to within inches of the goal line with two bucks into the center of the line, and on the next play, with Dixie expecting another line buck, Theobald skirled his own riiiht end to go over standing up for the score that won the game. On the conversion Garn Woodall's kick from plajement was wide, but Dixl? was offside, and another try for point was granted the Farmers. This time Theobald went off-tackle to make the point. After this score Dixie came back strong to keep the Farmers back on 'heir heels for most of the second l.er od, marching to the Farmer 16 for their only threat of the game. At this point, however, the Farmers Farm-ers held and Dixie last the ball on downs. The Farmers threatened three tinus in the last half, once after a partially blocked punt and a bad kick by Dixie put the Flyers back on their heels. Tills threat was stopped, however, when Les Hafen intercepted Harold McLcod's pass on his own 19 yard line. One Farmer threat was stopped In the fourth period, when B. A. C. lost the ball on downs. A moment later the Farmers recovered a Dixie fumble and the B. A. C. threat was renewed. Hafen again ruined the U. A. C's. chance when he Intercepted Inter-cepted a pass thrown by Baker. Dan Hanson intercepted a Dixie pass a moment later and B. A. C. was marching again when the ganit: ended. The Ii A. C. made 9 first downs to 7 for D xie, and gained 169 yards from rushing and passing, as compared com-pared w.th a total of 94 yards gained gain-ed by Dixie. On rushing plays B. A. C. gained 150 yards, and Dixie niade 77. B. A. C, completed on one pass but it was good for 19 yards, while Dixie completed four for a gain of only n yards. Each team intercepted two passes. Theobald and Twitchell averaged 30' j yards on thier punts for B. A C. while Dxie's punters averaged -6'j yards. The Farmers were penalized eigtu times for 50 yards, including two fifteen yard penalties and six fiv? yard penalties. D:xie was penalized only twice, each time for 15 yards. The line-up: A. C. Dixie O'Connor ' e Tobter Adams t Belingherl Mathews o Snow Hansen c Fret Leigh o Sampson Gardner T Anderson Woodall k Hammond .Mis Q Hafen Ogden h Christensen Baker H Leavitt Twitchell F NHlson Substitutes: Dixie Utley, Church, O Snow, Gubler. Graff, Stott. B. A. C. Clark, Blad, Theobald, Hatch, McLeod. Pace. Lane, Bateman. Walker, Cook, Hall. |