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Show BAC Broncos Down Highly Touted Grid Squad from Nellis AFB. 31-6 The Branch Agricultural college col-lege football team played heads-lip heads-lip ball Saturday afternoon to score a surprising 31-6 victory over a highly touted team from Nellis Air Force base at Las Vegas. Ve-gas. The game, played on the Bronco field, proved to be much more Interesting than the onesided one-sided score would indicate. The air base team, studded with former outstanding college players, play-ers, was rated as considerably stronger than Coach Dave Gates' squad, but the Broncos quickly dispelled any thought the' fans might have that they would fold up before the visitors, by pushing to a 13-0 margin in the first quarter of play. Not only did the Broncos score twice in the quarter, quar-ter, but they pushed the airmen all over the field to gain a 7 to 0 margin in first downs. The first score came when Tex Everett crashed over, after two long passes by quarterback Doug McShane, the first to Clyde Turner Turn-er and the second to Dayle Rust, put the ball deep in enemy territory. terri-tory. Rust kicked the extra point. A few minutes later Roy Jones crossed the goal line, after another an-other pass, McShane to Rust had been the key factor in moving the ball into scoring territory. As the second quarter opened, the visitors, led by Manual Jaime, quarterback, with some good running by Tui Peleti and Bobby Wright, and some excellent excel-lent pass receiving by Derry Gibson Gib-son and Bobby Rutledge, suddenly sud-denly came to life and for the quarter it looked like the visitors were really going to make a battle out of it. They ran up five first downs to two for BAC, and pushed over a touchdown, the score coming on a pass from Jaime to Gibson. The try for extra ex-tra point was blocked. The Broncos pulled away in the third period, when Bunting intercepted a pass and raced deep into enemy territory. Quick to take advantage of the break, the Broncos moved over the goal line four plays later. A pass, McShane to Bunting moved the ball inside the 15, a couple of j tries at the line by fullback j Winston Christensen, put the ball j on the Nellis two yard line, from where McShane went over on a J quarterback sneak. Each team I rang up four first downs in this period. The Broncos struck twice in the final period for touchdowns, while holding the visitors scoreless, score-less, in spite of the fact that Nellis Nel-lis had the edge on first downs, five to four. The first score came on a pass from McShane to Rust, and later Rust crossed the goal line after taking a pass from Stan Mackay, a play that covered cov-ered about 55 yards. Coach Gates used every man on his squad in the battle, and everyone turned in good performances. per-formances. Excellent blocking and. tackling, an excellent defense de-fense and versatile offense featured fea-tured the Bronco's play. In other games of the week in the ICAC, Ricks college wallop-ped wallop-ped Dixie, 37-9, in a league encounter, en-counter, and the Wesminster Parsons ran roughshod over the Carbon Eagles for a 33 0 win in their conference battle. Outside the conference Weber defeated Carol college. 20-0, and Boise took the measure of Oregon Tech 14 to 6. |