OCR Text |
Show I IDAHO ELEVEN I GIVES-UTAHNS 1 REAL BATTLE Crimson Manages to Put Over a 16 to 12 Victory In Flashy Contest. SALT LAKE. Oct. 7. The Unlvor-. alty of Utah, with three of their regu-j lars out of the lineup, walked home j With a 16 to 12 victory over the fast College of Idalm eleven on Cummins field yesterday aflernooD In the open- : ing contest for the Olmsona 1922 o W .,., I. . in unMlrlnc of tlilu I , f ' i It must he said that the regular dyeli In wool football fans Dearly dropped over with palpitation of the heart j v hen the Idaho boys came hack In thc' last period and threatened to turn a defeat Into victory, but the trusty j 1 toe of Cnptaln Natl Smith averted th!j' and brought over Utah's victory, t ' tv as the little leader of the Crimson that started the Crimson on Its way j to victory in the first period when, after his team had failed to put the ball over by Inches, he dropped a kick over from the ! 7 -yard line, it was his second attempt, his first barely missing the Uprights; Smith again came to the front with another well directed drop in the second period after Glen Watklns had wiggled hi, way down the field and pliTngcd over for Utuh's lone touchdown, making the score Utah 10. Idaho o trame-dlately trame-dlately after this. Smith again put over another drop from the 80-yuru I line, bringing: the total to 13 to 0 for his team. COMi: BACK STRONG. The Idaho boys came back with a rush In the third pe-rlod. but Utah, on , an exchange of punts, had the bail ! near the Idaho goal line, when u holding penalty kept another touch- down away. Champion who hud been ' eent in for Smith attempted a for-I ward pass and it wad blocked The ball fell into Hub's handa and ho raced GO yards for a touchdown. M there were no Crimson playera aroun 1 him. This made the total Utah 13 Idaho 6. as Lowell failed to kirk after touchdown. This play was of the fluke variety a-id. Just to show the fans they could do it In the fourth quarter, the Idaho eleven sprung a series of open formations that took the. Crimson off its feet for a time. Huitt finally pot a 30-yard pass and stepped over the Crimson line for v touchdown and Idaho again failed to kick the goal, which would have tle-J up the score. Utah received the ball and worked it to t!v Idaho 4"- I I line and It was at this point that Captain Cap-tain Smith again Injected pepper and spirit Into his men. when be put the ball through the bars with one of the beat directed drop kirks that has been seen on Cummina field for some time This brought Utah's total to 1 ". '"I Idaho 12. Idaho tried hard to it over another tonchdown :inil win the , game, hut the northern team waa em ahort bv the blocking of Smith 't this time. SMOTHER PASSES The Utah lads had found their defense de-fense for the forward paa and Id formations were smothen 1 with a I minutes to play All of the credit should not go to Captain Smith at that, as his toe was one ( the Waling Wal-ing factor, It Is irn. but the head VJ work of linrold Nation when he klcl ed the ball from behind the Crimson! goal line arcr he had received a bu I pass from Clarke was marvelous. The big guard was playing his tir.-d varsity football and this has marked him as a favorite with the fans, who) were certainly proud of the work of; this big fellow. Nation also made aome good gains on his end runs and was hard to stop. Champion, who replaced Captain Smith for a while, also sparkled with; his work and the plunging of Glen Watkins made many yards for the ( Crimson aggregation. watklns hit hard and brought over the only touch-1 down of the afternoon. Stevena and i Jeppson worked well on the wings I and. although their tackling wa hi they usually nailed their man. Clarke nlaved his first gunn . t icn'er an I displayed some rare stuff, as the only j bad pass of the day was the one th it Nation recovered and saved Clark -.-: scalp, llurrcn. Moyle and Pet i I did some strong work in the line, j which held like a stone wall against the much touted Millar, who was not able to punch the Crimson forwards as be thought. The entire Crimson! team showed that every man was working for the other fellow and time and again the machine rolled along, smoothly The Crimsonlts w ere also on the ball every minute and nailed all of the fumbles on the field Pol-lowlng Pol-lowlng the ball has become a : pastime with the Utah hoys and they i nre out for the big honors of the 1922 season STRONG BLEl I v. The Idaho team lived up to all of the advance publicity that was sent I here and Coach Cornell certainly ti i 1 a classy football eleven that fae l i the Crimson In the openlm it The team fought at all times and pulled their plays off well. Their open field Tvork was great and pave the fans some real thrills . After they found that they could not gain any I points from the bursts and end runs. I Quarterback Lowell opened up an 1 j threw many forward paesca In a vain attempt to turn a defeat Into a vie-tory vie-tory Miller's blocking was one of tho big factors In the Idaho offense and he held the college eleven together to-gether time, and again when they threatened to blow up captuin Low-, e!i was dangerous on his end run. j and his passing was of the highest standard. Unlit pfoved to be the' real catching kid of the afternoou and had plenty of glue on the tips of his fingers to nail everything directed his way. Coach Cornell also had a, tower of strength in his line In the person of Jackson. This masterly football plaver had his nose smash. I a number of times, but blood meant fight to him and he certainly made a great showing for his team He t was also on the receiving nd Of some well directed forward passes. Taking It all in all, the College of Idaho was one of the best elc ens I hat has plaj '1 on Cummins Meld and they gave th"i B football fans of Utah all they had expected The Idaho hoys were dis-ippointed, dis-ippointed, It Is sure, by not winning, A I hut some team has to win and the I tah victory was not of the fluke kind ho the credit cannot be taken from the Crimson players, who pcr-formcd pcr-formcd well In their opening encoun-1 encoun-1 ter. Utah's victory was a costly one. because be-cause after the first few minutes or piay Fullback Evans had to be lukvi from the field with a dislocated elbow and he Will be out of football for at least four weeka. This will be costly as this huskv was working well at fullback and could be usM at his old place of guar I , to advantage If some of the greenei material In the backfield develop Evans was taken to the 1. l S hospital hos-pital and an X-rrny ;.l t ire of his arm Will be taken this mornrng i nis accident was a sad blow to the Utah - players and backers anil no doubt It had something to do with the spirit I of his teammates during the latter I part of the game. I'!; ,m PIjAI 1 Its. The cojehes of toe two teams were high In the praisw of their men's work I yesterday and will have a few rough 'spots to fill up for the next battle. j b tab's next opponent will be. the Brlg-hpm' Brlg-hpm' Young university from J'rovo. This will l.c :i real conference battle , and will give the football lans of Utah a r hance to dope out just where Utah stands on the football map for Its future battles. The two teams lined Up a.s fellows Utah ( 1C). Idaho (12) Jeppson le llultt Peterson It Walker Ntillon . Ig Hudspeth Clarke C Specht Hurren rg Welch Moyle rt Jackson Stev ens re . . ... Eastm-in Tauffer .Ihb... . B. Lowell Watklns rhb Sow.-r Smith qb . . . W Lowell Evane ft .Miller Score bv periods: Utah .3 10 0 r. 1G Idaho . . 0 0 0 C 12 Substitutions; Utah Watklns for Kvans. Lee for Watklns; Champion for smith; Jewkes for Tauffer; Tauffer Tauf-fer for Jewkes Idaho Nichols for Sower: Kobinson for Kastman. Time of periods 16 minutes. Officials Blaaer, Worter. Wilson. Chicago; Gordon. West Point. on |