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Show The anticipation, joy and dissapointment of an exciting football game are mirrored in the face of .Skyline student Cay Holladay as she Hatches Skyline lose to Daris Skyline Drops Hea-r- breaker, Looks Ahe a d t Shaking off the effects of its loss to Davis in last week's 21-Class A semi finals was the big task facing Sky line High Schools great foot ball team that came within two minutes of dropping the undefeated Davis team from Kaysville And while senior footballers and the student body will replay the game for some time to come. Coach H. G Linford was seeking to mold his football plans for next year. Skyline battled Da vis closer than any team this year and with two minutes remaining in the game, had a 100-plyard advantage over the Region Two entry The Eagles, proved they could move the ball against any dda last week when they registered a 19-yardage win over Provo in the quarterfinals. It was a hard game to lose. Skyline, showing more poise each year as a football power, would have made its first appearance in the Class A finals with a win and would have been figured to edge its semi-fin- al counterpart Orem. It seemed to be a come-fro- m -- behind game for the tough Skvllne team that raced 14 us 19 SKYLINE Quarterback Dave Knudsen grabs a pass as Davis fullback Jeff Hill and halfback Dennis Martinez zero In Hockey Gains Momentum Competition For Basketball? Gone are the days when the 5' 10" forward could woWem when oo the basketball court the 19- - pound lineman was the man in the league to be feared. Today, one must be a monster to play football, a giant to play basketball, and darned lucky to make the college and pro ranks In baseball. However, the est spectator worlds greatsport ice has not yet reached hockey the competitive and sophisticated level of the other major sports. A guy of small or average build, who Is quick, healthy, and gutty has the right Ingredients to make a good hockey player. The first official league hockey game oo record In the United States was played by the Saint Nicholas Skating Clda vs. the Brooklyn Skating Clii) on December 15, 1896. The Saint Nicks woo 15-- 0. Hockey probably developed from a crude form of stick game played by the ancient Persians. The Greeks picked It 19 from the Persians and passed it on to the Romans. Traces of a stick game have been found in America as team-spectat- or played by the Aztec Indians. But they did not bear much resemblence to the modern form of the game. The mother country of the sport is Canada, which was the first country to organize the game oo a nationwide basis. For a long time hockey was confined to natural ice, but with the advent of ice-rin- ks, Its popularity spread rapidly. Players are permitted to wear protective equipment. The puck the term applied to the disk-liobject with which the game is played is made by vulcanized rubber, one inch thick, three inches in diameter, and weighs about -- six ounces five and one-ha- lf The game consists of three periods of 20 minutes each The playing surface is divided into three areas a defending zone, a neutral zone, and the attacking zone It begins with a face-o- ff the referee drops ke the puck between opposing centers who face each other in the center of the rink. Points are scored by driving the puck into the opposing teams goal. In case of a tie, the game is replayed at a later date except in the Stanley Cup playoffs where at the end of the 3rd period, there is a five minute intermission followed by a 10 minute 'sudden death playoff The team that scores if no score is first wins made in the overtime period, the game is over and ends in a draw The Salt Lake City Amateur Hockey Team has been in and existence for 16 years Rogers, District Pegis-tr- a for the American Hockey Association which Includes Joe N Idaho, Utah, New Mexico with headquarters in Salt Lake, recalls some of the conditions he played under in those early days of Salt Lake hockey. Ue played up in Idaho Falls in an outdoor rink where the temperature was 20 degrees below zero and the snow was six feet deep along the sides of the rink We dressed in a room which was about eight feet by eight feet containing a stove and the ceilings were only about six feet high, he noted He explained that the Salt Lake hockey team has traveled extensively throughout the ed western United states, last year winning six games and losing none. Playing hockey is expensive but not prohibitive, as Mr. Rogers outlined some of the equipment a person needs to get started In the ice game. Each player contributes about $30 a year to pay for a pair of hockey ice time skates costs as much as $75 0, shin gloves, $, and shoulguards der guards about $10, he said. Mr. Rogers noted that hockey reached its peak in the United States in 1960 when the U. S woo the Olympics at Squaw Valley. However, the team did not stick together and barely got 15 games a year under their belt before the 1964 Olympic games. After losing in 1964, the Russians were drafted into a special section under the Army in which they were put ipto a torrid 70 game a year schedule, said Mr. Rogers. He notes that neither the United States nor Canada gets up their best teams for the Olympic competition. 'Many of the good hockey players are already under amateur and professional contracts and these organizations wont break the contracts even to let one of their members be play in the Olympics, said Mr. Rogers said that out of the six professional hockey teams in the National Hockey League (96 players) there is only one American, the rest are Canadians. One Russian and two Swedes tried to crack the NHL but they couldnt make the and they were stars grade on world championship teams, he said Mr. Rogers explained some erf the finer points of the game He explained the similarity $15-$3- $10-$1- to the Region Three Division One Salt Lake County title with six straight victories But Skyline had come from behind initsquarterfinalg'ame with a late -- game touchdown and conversion In that Provo test the Skyline Eagles had a yardage margin Davis must have known of Skyline's yardage margin last week. With little more the one and lf minutes remaining on the clock Eagle quarterback Dave Knudson directed a touchdown drive that one-ha- was capped by halfback standout Steve Evans. Evans plunged over from three yards out and steady flanker Roger Healy booted the tie clincher, 14-a- ll. Moments later a kickoff was taken by the Dart's Ken Call. Call looked downfield and ran toward the sideline. He handed off to teammate halfback Bob Winegar. W inegar picked up his Interference and started rd a run from his own rd line to the Eagle's 20-ya- six-ya- stripe Fullback Dave Smith capped touchdown Davis' winning drive with a pass to Call who caught it for the score making it Davis 20, Skyline 14. A 45-ya- for holding penalty rd against Davis placed the ball on the 18. Another try by Smith was good Davis made the Initial score. Skyline battled back to tie It at 7 --all. Skyline backfield aces, aided by its great forward wall, took the baB on their own 37. Fullback Barry Plott, Martin Taylor, Evans and Knudsen moved steadily down the field. The Eagles matched Davi score and Hek.y converted. A Davis fumble gave Skyline another chance to score and But the strong go ahead. Davis Line held at the three-ya- rd line. Plunges by Davis Smith moved the ball to the 18 where a reverse play sprung Winegar loose for an dash and score. That's when Skyline matched it to make it 14-with 1:39 on the scoreboard clock. It was still a great year for the Golden Eagles of Skyline. The team came a long way from its August training camp. Coach H. G Linford and his assistants Hank Taggart, Jim Pearson and Jim Woodward molded a contender and from a look at the roster it would appear another big football year is forthcoming next fall. Quarterback Dave Knudsen was swarmed with talented There was running mates. big Jed Aldridge, fast Steve BillJones Evans, hard-hittiand Martin Taylor and Barry Plott, a good offensive runner but an outstanding defensive rd all ng star. Skyline is now turning Its Eagle eye from football to basketball where a bright fu- ture seems likely. 6-- 1 . r- best mn people have taken a second look at that Starling perched on their television antenna, or give a hurried 'no when junior asks, 'Mommy, can I go down to the park and feed the birds? But bird lovers will tell you that being afraid of their fowl friends is a lot erf hooey. cock-fighti- and ng, they fly about 40 miles an hour in still air, but get going up to 70 miles an hour with a good d. 'They flv about miles a day, bo said. Thera are 75 racing pigeon families in the Salt Lake 500 tail-win- still 00 II THE BIRD the California the word with Jack Schiess, president of the racing club and Jim F itzgerald, Chino California president. Jack is showing his stock to the S Itah nieeoo bird-ma- n. seeking tips for the next big race 00 es is z game for all ages, as the Juniors, ard 1 1. take the irr, hat th puck around and look forward to maybe some day pulling in 3'i grand a year in the ro leagues n rnr f ee hi r rwido It. rW rtn A Ever since Allred Hitchcock produced the terror - filled mystery 'The Birds, many others have natural instincts which will bring them home from as far as 2,000 miles away ..these are called 'homing pigeons The Salt Lake area has a racing pigeon club with 15 members Jack Schiess is the Utah president Their club breaks down the racing age groups into two classifications The old ...old and young birds race between 100-6miles, the young birds race between 100-3miles ball HOCKEY Off! Pigeons Do 70 With Good Wind Theyre Birds are amazing ..some can talk, almost carry on a conversation ...others win lots of money for their owners in one of the bloodiest sports, between hockey and basketBoth have a center which try to get the ball in play to their team-matthe wines in hockey are like forwards in basketball, hockeys defensive men are like guards in basketball A fence off in hockey is like a jump ball in basketball. There is continuous action it stops only for a few seconds when a goal is scored, a rule is broken, or if The pock should leave the ice For the most part, the-1men play two minutes each in three teams of five The goalie is one exception to the he plays the whole rule game The other exception is when one of the teams get penalized Both coaches send in their HINT of how a coach feels when his team is close.then loses a taut exciting game is shown on Howard G Linford's face as he watched Davis narrowly defeat nis Skyline eleven A COME ON T ME you guys, says junior hockey Coach Pune Wall.n as his team comes eras? mg down the ice He is rtnm o fv hrrlrr rro in The game is played by putting all the birds on a big truck, and driving them off to far away points like Cedar City, Utah, Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles, California Each bird carries a rubber the ring around his leg driver lets all ths birds go at once and he jots down the timp Then the birds 'race home Back home, the bird owner waits Uhen his pipeon arrives home, he takes the rubber marker off his foot and places it in a time clock which punches the time of the bird's arrival To be eligible to race each owner must have one of these timing which costs about devices $190 Usually, the birds dont stop and play along the way but f!y Straight thrrmrh 'til fHov reach hundred miles or so These piee'ms have been known to |