Show I THE SPORTS HIGHWAY - £ WITH AL WARDEN Alma Richard Raied Greatest Utah Athlete I A IV- - 4 V " t A ¥ 1 i OGDEN 'X- The world sports spotlight "deservedly is focussed again upon a native Utahn who is unquestionably this state’s greatest track and field performer and possibly its greatest all around athlete in 1912 when he Alma Richards astounded the track and field world by winning the Olympic high jump at Stockclimaxed an impressive drive ' ' holm Sweden His accomplishment is pointed up again by special invitation for Richat Stockards to attend the 50th anniversary of the Olympic games ' I holm in 1962 the scene of his epic jump of Many Ogdenites will recall his appearances here as a member meet held in May 1920‘ at the' Ogden Athletic Club In a the shot won Richards put discus throw broad Farr Park in the javelin second and in placed high jump jump tied for first occasion for sports be will' it Stockholm to back When he travels historians to dust off the record books This will be a source of pride makes his home in a retired status in for the former Utahn who now ' t Los r Angeles sunny ' I ih I £ I lie "T4 vyWTV’’ Tf' I 1 cv V A $1 67000 Watch Skirmish in Rain At Yankeo Stadium Goal Missod r v 0 v :A a' Veteran California Teacher hard-runnin- A -- K V X A one-touchdo- AIR FORCE TIES CADETS IN FIRST FOOTBALL FEATURE back (82) of Army is following in at right Air Force fullback Monte Moorberg is on the ground below their feet The service teams battled to a tie — (AP NEW YORK— Quarterback Rich Mayo (12) of the Air Force throws a bullseye to halfback Mike Quinlin as he is rushed by Army players in the first contest between the' two teams at Yankee Stadium In center Army’s Robert McCarthy swats at the ball' Otto Ever- - 13-1- 3 started Wirephoto) to ”go go go” COULDN'T HOLD BALL And go the airmen did after Army’s Glen Blumhardt fumbled a punt which Mike Rawlins recovered for the Air Force on Army’s 25 Army held on its eight and lei A im Pupich missed a field goal attempt from the 15 Army took over on its 20 but after a first down A1 Rushatz committed the second of four costly Army fumbles and Neal Roundtree recovered on the Cadet 30 This time the Air Force went all the Star Performer LaBarba ' Praises “ ' A- "about Richards was carried recently in the An interesting-storystuSanta Monica Calif ’Outlook written by Fidel La Barba a former chamdent La Barba wlll bejemembered as winning an Olympic boxing 1 wray Richie Mayo’s passes carried the weight title pionship in 1924 and later capturing the world professional 6flyfeet 4 inches La Barba writes: “In this day and age of course was surmount to (This doesn’t seem like a great height (or a jumper Richards’ Olympic mark) h "j A A5 “But one must hot' forget that m ’those old days Richards along with the great Jim Thorpe was one of America’s first truly great athletic record athletes Richards achieved a remarkable over-al- l achievements have athletic Richards’ great “It is true that Alma of lesser sports woroldo many continued publicity not been given the reserved of the reasons quiet the being lights Perhaps among Venice High The horn own his blow to known never been has who type School teacher preferred ’to be an educator and moulder of young men and women first And a great athlete second “This is not to’imply that Alma: still doesnt take an interest m athletics Not so you could notice it He’s ‘out on the field watching and helping the kids almost dajly” La Barba continued teacher La Barba The story further relates thaf Richards was a strict was glad of it He said it helped him during the rigors of his own Olympic and professional ring efforts Amateur athletes will marvel at this: Richards alone won more than 2000 points in championship meets He starred for the Ogden AAS in Three Fumbles Figure in Game on Provo Gridiron UTES IN ROUT -- all-arou- Indians PROVO rizona By Steve Smilanich SALT LAKE CITY (UPI)-Se- nior halfback Larry Wilson set a new school scoring record today with - Deserves Orchids for Perfomanco five touchdowns and a two-poiconversion in leading Utah to an easy 54 to 6 intersectional win over nt would not be posrecapitulation of his record accomplishments ‘he was that great sible because of space lifpitations However we recall a dew: Won high jump and shot put in Utah scholastics in May 1910 at gait Lake won Utah intercollegiate s in 1910-1- 1 won high jump at Olympic tryouts at Evanston 111 in 1912 won Olympic high jump Stockholm ' won high jump at French 1912 intercol-legiate- s games Paris 1912 Utah Salt Lake 1913 won high jump shot put broad jump pole vault and discus throw i Won national AAU high jump in 1913 won national AAU decathlon consisting of four races and six field events and so many others Track and field athletes are due for a bigger share of the national sports budget in the immediate- future Of course like shooting for the moon'We must doff our hats to the Russians for the new interest our Olympic chiefs have been beating the drums for better support They say that the Reds have athletic plans to wrest track and field supremacy away from the United States And weir they might Even in the recent Olympic games the Russians claimed domination in track and field We claimed the championship but we used a different scoring method than did our rivals Here’s hoping Another Alma Richards or two arises again on the Utah track and field scene- - to help with the competition in athletics that the Russians like to use to promote their bid for general world supremacy A Arizona The power runner from Rigby Idaho scored a total of 32 points in putting on one of the greatest individual scoring feats in the history of University of Utah Utah stunned Arizona with three touchdowns in the first quarter in d rolling to the triumph before 10063 fans who turned out in perfect football weather at Ute Stadium Coach Ray Nagel’s Redskins put on their best offensive effort of the season against the outclassec border conference team by gaining their third win in1 six games The Skyline Conference Utes avengec a 0 loss handed them in the last previous meeting with Arizona in 1954 The inexperienced visitors suffered their fourth loss in six games Utah’s heavier line opened big holes for the speedy backfield while containing Arizona’s Wildcats most of the afternoon Much of the game was played by substitutes after Utah took a commanding 26-- 6 halftime advantage Quarterback Ken Vierra also turned in a top performance for Utah by passing for a pair of 180-pou- one-side- 54-2- Young University capitalized on Utah State fumbles today to defeat the Aggie’s grid machine 18-- 0 before 6924 Skyline Conference fans It was the first BYU home victory since the middle of the 1958 season and the first Cougar shutout since 1957 when they beat Utah State 14-- 0 The Cougars retained the wagon wheel symbol of football supremacy in rivalry between the two schools for the third straight year Crucial injuries caused BYU to switch to the straight-attack with quarterbacks Jack Jordan and Ron Startin running the squad BYU took the opening kickoff and marched 79 yards in seven plays run for the first score A and LeGrande fullback Young by a pass from Jordan to right halfback Paul Allen were the big plays in the drive d The Cougars scored from the line on a rollout pass from Jordan to end Tom Cole Ron Jacobsen’s attempted conversion kick fell short and BYU led 0 Utah State could not get moving in the first half fumbling three times each Aggie miscue was quickly recovered by a Cougar player But coach Tally Stevens’ “Cats” could not score again until the third quarter when Cole recovered USU halfback Buddy Allen’s fumline BYU ble on the BYU climaxed a drive with halfback’ Jack Gifford plunging over for the touchdown with five minutes (UPP-Brig- ham T 33-ya- rd 25-ya- rd two-yar- 6-- and 39 seconds left In the hird Startin’s attempted conversion pass to end Fred Leavitt was deflected by Aggie halfback Dolph Camilli and the Cougars led 12-- 0 On the second play after the kickoff Aggie quarterback Mel Mon-tabl- o fumbled Cougar quarter Howard Homan recovered on the 33-ya- rd line plunging over right guard for the score The extra point attempt was mumbled by quarterback Jordan Fourth period saw the Aggies move to the BYU one yard line but the Cogars held Young was the leading ground-gaine- r as he picked up 97 yards in carries Score by periods: 12 0—18 BYU 0 0 0 0 — 0 USU BOZEMAN Mont (UPI) — Montana State College struck early through the air and on the ground to build a 29-- 6 halftime lead and then held on for a 4 win over North Dakota University here today The first half was all Montana The Bobcats scored twice to lead 15-- 0 before the Sioux took to the air and finally got a touchdown in the opening minutes of the second quarter The Cats roared back to score in five plays hitting paydirt on a pass play and adding another just before the half ended to make it 29-- 6 at halftime Scoring: BYU—Cole 7 pass' from Jordan (Kick missed) BYU—Gifford 1 run (Pass in- complete) (Run Sur-pris- final-perio- er 7-- 55-ya- rd Score COLUMBUS Ohio (UPI) — Ohio most dazzling display of passing Ohio State in nine State quarterback Tom Matte fired for ground-boun- d for a total of 138 accounted three touchdown passes yesterday years to spark ' an Ohio ralfy which yards on five out of eight tries' Ohio State scored three times by earned the Buckeyes a 3(k24 upset once on a brilliant passing victory over Michigan State and run by sophomore halfback Bobby saved Ohio from its worst season field Ferguson and on a in nine years conversions and three goal by The smallest home crowd of ‘the KilDave place kicking specialist 0 season watched Matte who t ‘ gore swing shifts between quarterback State an Michigan Spotting and halfback wrin his second game 0 lead Ohio State bounced early back this- year w i t h his passing" He in the first period on Matte’s late e threw 'the ' touchdown first of twp passes -- to copass W'hich enabled Ohio to beat ' captain : end scoring Houston who Jim 3 Duke in the Opening game 57 A raced for score the yards ' Ohio which-ha- s never 'lost four fumbled pass' center on the from games in - one season since Coach extra point attempt kept Ohio one ' Woody ITayes came here iiine years behind r poiht ago went into the game' with two victories and three defeats arid it appeared for a while the underdog Buckeyes would lose again Michi- Eight gan State jumping off to a 0 lead The National pennant But then Matte and Co took' over winner has w?on 100League or more games and Ohio never trailed only eight times in the last 45 ’ v 83-13- : 7-- - Tast-miout- -- ‘ 7-- Matte’s -- aerial wizzardry e' the years Passed 200 'Statistics game:' - - " of the Arizona-Uta- h ' z'5 First downs Rushing yardage Passing yardage Passes Passes intercepted by Punts Fumbles lost Yards penalized 'i Utah Arizon - i - '12 30 317 267 103 95 ‘ 7-- 18 13-2- 4 2 1-- 44 0 92 3 5-3- 9 1 34 21-1- two-touchdo- 44-ga- down The ease of the scoring march indicated a rout But the Huskers who had dropped hree straight games stiffened their defense after that and much of the opening period was played deep in Oklahoma territory giving the fans cause for hope Nebraska came up with its first ouchdown early in the second period with a drive set up after a Tolly kick which left the Sooners near their goal and forced o punt The payoff came (n a fourth down four-yar- d pass from Tolly ‘o end Dick McDaniel in the end zone The Huskers went ahead minutes later when guard Leroy Zentick grabbed a partially-blocke- d punt on the Oklahoma 36 and aided by a key block by center Jim Moore raced across the goal Nebraska still trailed however 2 at the half on the margin of two extra points kicked by Sooner center Jim Davis The Sooners retaliated quickly after the second Nebraska TD and marched 56 yards with quarterback Bob Cornell scoring over on a keeper from six yards out to cap the drive 42-ya- rd 4 25-ya- rd ed 7-- ‘ 55-ya- rd nt ( 14 14—54 0 0— 6 Scoring: Utah — Wilson 9 runs (Kick blocked) Utah — Mastellottd 57 pass from Vierra (Pass incomplete) Utah — Wilson 13 run (Uyshiro ' ' run) Arizona — Geist 1 run incomplete) Utah'" — Wilson 3 pass ' from Vierra (Run failed) Utah — Wilson 14 pass from Vierra (Wilson run) 'i Utah — Johnston 4 run (Run : r J failed) — H Utah Wilson 3 run (Nofsing-e- r r v run) Utah — Uyeshiro 69 pass from McLaughlin (Run failed 22-ya- rd 74-ga- 6-- 6 Ne(UPI) braska tumbled Oklahoma’s unbeaten record in Big Eight Con ference football yesterday coming from behind in the second half for 1 a upset over the Sooners who had been unbeaten in '74 consecutive conference games The Huskers chose to come up with their peak performance of the year before a wild homecoming crowd of 34000 The big hero' among many for Nebraska this bright afternoon was sophomore quarterback Ron Mead 4 He kicked Nebraska into a lead in the third period with a field goal and late in the game booted antoher three-poier which assured the victory Victory was put out of reach for the Sooners midway through the fourth period when halfback Pat Fischer returned a kickoff 61 yards before being hauled down from be hind on Sooner four by halfback Brewster Hobby Three players later quarterback Harry Tolly wedged over from the 4 one to put Nebraska ahead Mead converted The win by the underdog Huskers ended a streak of unbeaten games for the Sooners in the Big Eight They were tied by Colorado in 1952 Their skein included twa ties In the opening minutes of to Oklahoma day’s game it appeared which squeaked by ' Kansas last week 6 would crush the Huskers Their opening drive of 72 yards ook just eight plays with fullback Prentice Gautt slanting off tackle rom three yards out for the touch25-2- BERKELEY Calif (AP) — by rugged California defenses the Southern California d Trojans rallied for a touchdown yesterday the beat Bears 14-- 7 and remained undefeated and untied Underdog California capitalized on a third-quartfumble to take a 6 lead over the highly favored Trojans in this Big Five Conference battle Utah received the opening kick off and marched 72 yards to the goal in 13 plays to take a 0 lead Wilson ripped over from nine yards ’out Arizona scored its only touchdovm in the second period when Jim Geist dove over from one yard out 0 - Neb 14-1- REGION ONE FOOTBALL CHAMPS This'B£ar RiyerHigh School football squad won the first region championship in 22 years when it defeated North Cache this past week Front row left to right Warren Christensen Gary Henrie Burke Rogers Mike Ramsdell Hugh Davis Dave Conger Lyle Evans WihstOn Hickman Roy Wood Porter Heusser manager Second row Colyn Knudsen DeVon Knutson Mark Coombs? Calvin Hunsaker Vance Bourne Allan Nelson Grant Theurer Lanny Smith Phill Markham and Jay Hunsaker Third row Sidrihy Bishop Coach Gerald Simmons Ralph Norris Jay Taylor Leonard d Owen Udy Fred Manning J D Hawks Robert Jensen Coach Durrell Hughes and Coach Donald Peterson Back row Tommy Woodhead Jay Sandall Val Eber-har- d Terry Knudsen Darell Newman Jay Oyler Don Lamb Steven Harris Mark Baer Dwane Jones Neal Thompson Don Kerr and Mike Munk ' Can-fiel- ' I ir Already Retained Whitlow Wyatt has already been retained as a pitching coach with) the Milwaukee Braves for the 1960 season' Dartmouth 12 Yala Holy Cross M Colgate 11 Williams 16 Union 0 Amherst 0 Tufts O Syracuse 35 Pitt O Hofstri 18 Muhlanberj ' Harvard 12 Panrt O r Gettysburg 1$ Lafayette II Allegheny 6 Dickinson 0 Carnegie Tich 14 Geneva II Princeton 7 Brown 0 Air Force v13 Army IS (tit) f ’ Cornell -- 13 "Columbia 7 r ' Norwich 0 liddlebury 0 Villanova 22 Dayton 13 v Boston U 20 Massachusetts Penn Military 8 Lycoming 7 - v Lehigh 14 Bucknell O ' Drexel 12 Temple Richester 20 DePauw 0 Buffalo 16 Youngstown 7 Northeastern 15 Bridgeport 4 Springfield 21 Rhoda Island 6 Upsala 20 Kings Point 7 Vermont 20 St Lawrence 14 Trinity 26 Coast Guard 6 Southern Connecticut 60 Quonset New 4 Bates 0 Bowdoin O Colby 14 Maine 6 St Vincent 14 Kings (Pa) 0 Lebanon Valley 20 Grove City 14 Connecticut 39 New Hampshire SB Kentucky State 21 West Virginia State A Penn State 28 West Virginia Id Harvard 12 Pennsylvania 0 ' 13-ye- ar 63-ya- rd 9 Arizona LINCOLN Trojans Maintain Perfect Record With 14-- 7 Win 45-ya- rd touchdowns to cap an march Score by periods: Utah 20 6 Oklahoma 15-1- 6-- BYU — Ring wood 2 run ' f IAJT 35-1- BYU pushed over the final tally in nine plays with Howard Ring-woo- d 15 FOOTBALL FINALS EARLY LEAD' quarter Farmer other fumble ruined this bid Late in the third quarter Mayo intercepted an Anderson pass and returned 25 yards to Army’ 31 Then came the big break as John Baucom of Air Force recovered Don Usry’s fumble on the Army $2 and Air Force was on the way again " Score by Periods: 0 IS 6 6—IS — Army 6 0 0 7— IS Air Force Scoring summary Army— Anderson 6 run Blanda kick Anderson 1 plunge kick failed Air Force Moorberg 3 plunge kick failed Quilan 10 run Pupich kick MONTANA STATE HANGS ON TO 80-ya- rd 14-1- 13-1- last-perio- However he admits an even more solid satisfaction in the 32 years he devoted to teaching high school classes and moulding young men and women in the sports ideals Richards went afield in quest of higher education as he furtherec his track and field career He spent four years at Cornell graduating in 1917 one year at Stanford and three more at the University of Cali fornia where in 1924 he graduated with a degree in law Strangely the former Olympic great never formally signed as a coach He did spend tens of thousands of hours to coaching and developing athletes just as a hobby As others of that era he was called to the colors during the first world war where he served with honors In 1919 Richards won the greatest number of points in the Raris AEF championships which caused General -- John Pershing to proclaim him the “Greatest Athlete in US Army Service” Physical evidence of Richards' prowess may still be seen in the more than 250 medals he accumu lated "Many of these are still on exhibition ' at the Helm’s Athletic foundation in Los Angeles 30 - 24 f NEW YORK (UPI) — The Air Air Force to the nine and - then Force Academy came of football Monte Moorberg took it over in age as it whipped the ball through two whacks scoring from the thrit the wild gray yonder Saturday for Pupich missed the placement 3 d touchdown and a a tie with Army in a history-makin- g Army carried the ensuring kickbat(le before 67000 in Yankee off back 60 yards to a touchdown ' V with Anderson’ bull-lik- e rushes the Stadium g The kids from Colorado Springs major factor The riCocoa halfback from Fla a their debut banged against making val academy opposition kept their it over from the six and Army took hopes alive with a desperation the lead as Tom Blanda kicked the fourth and eight pass for a first point down on Army’s 15 and then sent SHORT DRIVES SCOR& Minnesota Mike- - Quinlan rocketing A bad break cost the Ait Force around end for the touchdown that set up the tie on George Pupich’s another touchdown when Mayo punting on fourth down from his extra point favorite own 20 took a poor pass from cenArmy a in this inaugural game had trailed ter and could not get off the kick on the six Anin the first quarter and then took Army took over to one and then bucked the derson the lead oh Bob Anderson’s pair of went Blanda over missed the touchdowns in the second period kick Under dull gray skies spitting The lights were turned on at the occasional rain the 400 Air Force of the second half and after start Cadets in attendance poured out of the opening kickoff Army drove the stands just before the game to the Air Force 39 when Anback and exhorted their team - 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