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Show A fired-up Red Devil grid team will seek their second straight league victory at Orem Friday when the rival teams of the two schools line up for the 2:30 kickoff. i Coach Killpack's eleven should be in top form for the Friday's encounter especially after being spurred on by a thrilling . 19-14 victory over the Payson Lions here last Friday. Fri-day. The game was a crowd pleaser right from the opening kickoff which saw the talented running of backfieldman Grant ; Palfreyman. Grant scooped up the ball on his own 15 and sent the Red Devil rooters completely mad with excite- ment as he went all the way ! for a touchdown. The pass play j Murray to Roylance was com- j pleted and the Devils had a ' 7-0 lead. 3 Payson retaliated with a score shortly after and converted con-verted to tie the game at 7 all. The Lions marched down the field on a series of line plays midway in the second quarter to lead 13-7. The try for the extra point was good and the score moved to 14-7. ' The home fans saw the Devils Dev-ils come back with a ven- for the extra point failed but the Devils ended up with the 19-14 victory. The line play of Mike Bartholomew, big John Child and Michael Davies contributed con-tributed much to the success of the team's victory, as did the fine play of Palfreyman, Cherrington, Roylance, Murray, Simkins. The entire team was looking much improved. Springville chalked up 10 first downs to Payson's 13. Payson far outnumbered the Devils in yards rushing, 155 to 103 but the superiority in passing pass-ing went to the Devils with 159 to 21. Total yards for Springville 262, Payson, 176. Springville completed 6 out of 12 passes as compared to 2 out of 9 for the losers. geance and several pass plays carried the ball to the Payson 12, with first and ten to go. The next pass fell incomplete but Leon Bleggi hit Leland , Bird to score. The line plunge failed and Payson held the lead 14-13. The half ended two minutes min-utes later with the ball in mid-field. mid-field. Halftime activities were particularly par-ticularly entertaining and since it was homecoming for the ' 1941 grads, the queen and her two attendants were introduced. introduc-ed. Miss Sharon Ellis was selected se-lected as queen with Pat Denny and LaRue Savage as attendants. attend-ants. They were escorted to the field by Buddy Gardner and Jan Felix, student officers. The pep club entertained with a stunt, accompanied by the band to give spectators an enjoyable halftime. Darlene Ammott is Pep Club director with George Puckett, band leader. Palfreyman and Cherrington made two nice runs from their own 44 to set the stage for final touchdown of the game with only a little over 3 minutes min-utes to play. The winning score came with a beautiful pass play, Murray to Simkins who eluded two Payson tacklers and went in for the score. The try |