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Show Sham takes foOTBALLCROWN 1 j As Seen By Al Ablett Uaw a football game last Fri-t Fri-t in a setting that would in-ie in-ie a poet. Sitting in the press ' with the Utah stadium foot-!n foot-!n field lying beneath and the ff capped Wasatch mountains Ci back drop but I'm not a rft and anyway after the game I forgot the scenery. i believe the Bingham Miners ft Friday were the bst high (hool football team in Utah, Yilhout exception, and I think jat most of the 3000 fans that 5 t their 13-0 win will agree, from ihe opening whistle to i, final gun they played like i 1 high-geared machine. They 1 jiofked and tackled in teeth- Tilling fashion and their exertion exe-rtion of plays was beautiful to jehold. Jlind you, ladies and gentle-A gentle-A they were playing for the ate championship against an Jerican Fork ball club that ) idn't lost a game all season. I Jey didn't have a set-up. 'Captain Frank Callen won the sand chose to defend the south al. Holmstead of American tk kicked off, Elwin Winn re-jned re-jned it about 15 yards. The I sgham machine went right in- j high gear. Jffith Callen, Gordon Jensen i Charles Hudson carrying the they marched to American $ :i.;'s twenty yard line. Where, three down and four yards ! jgo, they made one or the two itakes they made all day. Cal-S Cal-S I called for a pass and it was g Complete, leaving them four N fen and still four to go. They fi fn passed over the goal line 11 fl American Fork took the ball fdown to the twenty yard line. gWrican Fork took a couple Ishots at the Bingham line with I kt as much success as a man I fa pony would have crackling i lMaginot line, and Holmstead tttked to Hudson who ran it I & about 20 yards before they 3 Him out of bounds. Bingham, I I Jensen and Callen hitting X iline, made a first down. Then ssen made three yards and N agham was caught holding and if klized 15 yards. S Winn kicked out on Ameri-k Ameri-k Fork's 25 yard line. McTague this stage of the game made f longest run from scrimmage it American Fork made all day. U fake into the line Reynolds g iled the wrong man and Mc-I Mc-I igue romped around his own I jht end for 20 yards, g But, believe me. that was the 1 Jy time that boy Reynolds was I tied all day. What a game that 1 y played. American Fork fail-j fail-j to make first down and Holm-I Holm-I M kicked over the goal line 1 ithe quarter ended, l ithe opening of .the second I ker found the Bingham boys I king at their best. Callen 1 de four yards and Jensen went 1 f behind a wave of blue jer-M jer-M Then, failing to gain, Winn 8 Aed. American Fork was still Wng trouble with Bingham s -charging line, and when I ilmstead fumbled a bad pass i'k center that Bingham for- Vd wall bore down on him h&e S I avalanche. He kicked but it Is hurried and it only went 8 hi 20 yards. . S i Shades of Joe DiMaggio! a 4llen took that low liner off i shoe tops on the dead run H ad where they came from I 1 Wt know but there they were: 1 least eight Bingham men in i nt of him and believe me I W I tell you they mowed H Jse Red Shirts down like a schine gun. Callen went over a M goal line from thirty yards Hit without a hand being laid M him. The Bingham stands p nt wild. Winn's kick was ide and the half ended 6 to 0 S Bingham. I The third quarter was a differ-W differ-W ? story. American Fork got a ft M on the kick off when Bing- f'M received a penalty to their n one yard line. Winn kicked IM 'n out of danger but Ameri-? Ameri-? Fork's line held in this quar- and this boy Durrant, who & the whole show for Ameri- Fork, really put on the pres-?r. pres-?r. Neither team scored but it just because the Miners al-fys al-fys had enough left to stop the 'jetnen when they got danger-- danger-- his was clearly shown when " Mhe beginning of the last quar-? quar-? a forward lateral pass from Instead to McTague to Dur-t Dur-t took the ball to Bingham's ftrd line. On the next play 1 (Continued on page 8) BINGHAM TAKE.s FOOTBALL CROWN (Continued from page 1) Reynolds, on an attempted end run by Holmstead, ran him back and threw him for a 14 yard loss. Callen on the next play intercepted in-tercepted Holmstead's pass and the miners were off again. On a sleeper play that caught the Cavemen counting their money Hudson sneaked out and took a pass from Callen. I wish you could have seen that boy run. He cakewalked down the sideline side-line to the American Fork line for a touchdown. On this play I saw as pretty a blocking as I ever hope to see in any foot-i foot-i ball game, high school or otherwise. other-wise. Winn kicked the goal. Santy immediately sent his team into a five-three-two-one defense and the rest of the game saw American Ameri-can Fork throw passes from every part of the field. They completed complet-ed a few, but at no time were they dangerous. The game of games for Bingham was over. The Miners were Class B champions of the state to the tune of 13-0. Stars of the game were surely Durrant and Stras-burg Stras-burg and Ingersoll for American Fork. From Bongham there were eleven men out there and from where I sat they all looked like stars. Al. |