Show Cougars play second tie game of Season against Inexperienced team shows promise The Cougars from Union High School last Friday played their second tie-football game In two weeks as they battled a favored Wasatch High team to a tie on Union's It was the second game for both teams in the young The Cougars played a game with Rangely at Colorado the week before and Wasatch routed Lehi Coach Ken Benson's Cougars showed spurts of real promising football both on defense and on offense as they made their debut before home It's too early to predict how for they will go or how many games they will win But this thing la the Cougars a will to win and showed a lot of and will give any of their five league opponents plenty of trouble before the season is Piled Up Yardage Union elected to receive when they won the toss to start the but after making only 7 yards in three downs were forced to punt to Wasatch on their own 48 yard The Wasps rolled off a lot of yards as they went to Union's 20 before a bad center pass cost them the ball on the 18 yard line as Union recovered their The Cougars came back with some sensational running and passing plays and looked like they would go all the way as they advanced deep into Wasatch the Wasps held on their own and from then on neither team was able to penetrate beyond the The forepart of the gome t Wasatch lost a lot of yardage by off-side and illegal forma- tion As the game progressed Union was called for a few rule infractions to about even out the early Wasp So far as total yards gained was there wasn't much but the Wasps piled up 13 first downs as compared to 5 for the Shows Potential Union's two Brent and Ronald showed power on the George Cougar was easily the top performer in the He is fast on runs well and does everything about right on John Merkley did a first-time job at and the defensive work of Chris Groves and Jon Larson stood out at Big Jon is being groomed as the passing quarterback for the Cougars and could easily take over the signal The road through the Region 7 schedule isn't going to be easy for or any other of the five teams that make up the American Fork who comes here Friday is a tough Uintah ripped Rangely last weekend and the previous week handed an a to become one of the teams to beat in class It will be interesting to watch what happens in the next weeks of high school |