Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-07 | Page 12 | Utah Copper Team Wins Telegram Soccer Trophy

IV UTAH COPPER CO TEAM WINS TELEGRAM I SOCCER TROP TRO rt Jf J f ir Bingham Eleven f li i Shades Callies For Fall Title Tide 0 Miners l Eke Out 1 0 Win in Final Final Game to Break Deadlock TELEGRAM SOCCER LEAGUE vi- vi Final r. r p P. P w w. L. L P. P J F. F APts U. U Cop Copper r It 14 12 1 l' l 1 52 1 2 23 a. a i. i Caliri It 14 11 2 1 39 10 23 O. O B. B L 1 It It II 9 3 3 2 31 17 20 k 14 9 4 1 53 23 9 b U. U 6 14 3 A 0 9 it 31 n 10 orden 14 4 10 0 25 t 45 R U 14 10 1 33 43 7 71 St St. U 14 0 It 14 0 I St 34 0 The fighting spirit I and nd the aggressive 1 sive IV brand of soccer that carried the Utah Copper eleven cleven of Bingham to victories In the spring league and the state tate championship race piloted the I team to a 1 to 0 victory over the Salt t Lake Callies in the deciding tussle for or the championship of the fall league with The Telegrams Telegram's beautiful ful new trophy as the prize After being held scoreless in the first half hAlt on a snow blanketed field at Copperton Saturday the Coppers broke through for far the winning point Jack Tyson kicking the games game's only goaL The marvelous goal tending of Joe Dixon for the Callies was outstanding I With uncanny precision he knocked down a half dozen dangerous shots by Bingham in the first ten minutes killing three almost sure bids in a minutes minute's time No finer exhibition of goal tending has been seen on Beehive Beehive Beehive Bee Bee- hive gridirons this year ear CALLIES ON DEFENSE The Callies apparently elected to play a defensive game pulling their players in well vell in front of their goal until the offense failed to click in formidable formidable for tor fashion Winning the toss the combine elected elect elect- ed td d to attack up hill but were met with witha a strong trong defense on every occasion The long pass passing ins of the Bingham forwards for tor wards which all season n has been excellent ex cx- was soon threatening the Callies Callies Cal Cal- lJ lies s with disaster Whereas the Callie Gallic offense penetrated pene pene- tra hated cd Copper territory only on rare occasions the Bingham team often had five and six players in scoring position in front of the Combine goal Once they had the ball the Callies were vere prone to send only one or or two men Into enemy territory with it and usually lost it before getting better than a long try at the posts GAMES GAME'S ONLY GOAL Finally a long punt from Gaythwaite Gaythwaite Gayth Gayth- waite fell to George Tyson who passed the ball to his wingman and Jack Tyson ever danger dangerous us in front of the goal made no mistake in beating beating heatIng beat beat- Ing Dixon the ball rolling through the far corner of the net with the Gallic CaUle defense spread pread played his usual great g game me In defense Grey also was good This defense however has always been good this fall all having conceded only eight Ight goals in 14 matches while the Copp Copper r forwards were gathering 52 points pont Captain Hal Smith was was constantly a thorn in the Gallic Callie side centering repeatedly to perfection As usual it ft was a typical Callie Gallic Copper struggle bitterly fought and undecided until the final whistle Both teams played excellent ball de de- pite the cold and snow Utah Copter Copon B. B L. L Tommy rommy McCann J. J Dixon M. M t L s S. S Tetley Grey irb o. o McDonald D J. J Carr gl rh B a. a Young Youn Rill Billy car ch O. O p J Smith Ih J. J Graham Hal Ital Smith nh or T. T Wharram r f g. g a. a Ton Ir Jr N. N Smith r T. T Mannion on n. n cr et li 2 E Len n man g J- J K Fullmer 11 p. p J. J T Ty ol H. H t. t Chapman Referee A A. A J. J Haw Haw- th and B. B Hawthorne time to 40 minute minute halve