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Show Jack Woodward Developing As Passing Wizard Former Salida, Colorado Star Tosses Touchdown Passes For "Y" Eleven. The passing feats of Jack Woodward, Wood-ward, compactly buiit Cougar quarterback and left halfback, who will see a lot of service Saturday Sat-urday when the Brigham Young university team meets the University Univers-ity of Utah eleven, are rivalling those of the gridiron greats at the "Y This 150-pound aerial wizard from Salida, Colorado has been tossing touchdown passes since his freshman year at the "Y" and as a result his Dame is being mentioned in the same breath as Fred "Buck" Dixon, the super-accurate super-accurate Bliss Hoover, the more recent Frank LaComb and others. Woodward seems" to be the most successful when he is doing his own quarterbacking, but his ability abil-ity is a constant threat even if he plays at left halfback. He is able to build up a fine sequence of plays before choosing a deceptive pass when he calls his own numbers. num-bers. Woodward's 45-yard pass to Earl Giles gave the B. Y. U. Kittens Kit-tens a temporary 7-6' lead after Durrant had kicked the point when Woodward was calling the signals against the Utah frosh in 1933. His next touchdown passes came last fall when he was playing play-ing his first season of varsity football. He tossed touchdown passes against Occidental, Western State and Colorado College, besides be-sides passing for innumerable gains and first clowns against other conference teams. Last Saturday against Wyora-1 ing he tossed one to Stringhara for 7 yards and the first score and the second to Giles for 41 years and the winning touchdown. Coach Ott Romney states this . pass, which also featured Giles out - maneuvering a Wyoming man clinging tenaciously to his back, was as beautiful as the Rose Bowl pass they are still talking talk-ing abont. Jack's pass to Crane for the last "Y" touchdown against Colorado Col-orado College gave the "Y" an opportunity to tie the C. C. Tigers but the Cougars failed to convert. Woodward comes to Brigham Young university from Salida Colorado, perennial winners of the. Colorado state high slhool championship. |