| Show BACKSEAT DRIVING i Leopards Du Due Praise e Light Team Shines l By fly FRANK K It BAKER BAKERt t Telegram Sp Sports Editor Mickey Oswald Builds Well at t East High Values areS are not always the same Whereas as the chan chance e of a state championship championship cham cham- give rise to jubilant foci football thai en enthusiasm t u s I a s. s at at- at p Granite h i I K It h M school a record of J three victories in ni live five games is like likewise E t wise cause for or considerable con AY iJ joy at r East high school The reason JS tY i f i quite quito simple Gran Granite Grant i ite ftc has been recognized ir J as as' a n powerful powerful power power- ful contender for m v S d divisional i v Is I n n I and fu WJ state honors from from the h start of ot the the Naturally season t any anything ng s short h or t a of f f i X t. t W victory w 0 o u I d r t have been Oswald vald pointing the Former Farmer bail baill wick East Ens on the other h hand nd was regarded regarded re reo re- re as a candidate for tor the cellar before its first game so when it surprised sur sur- by tying Jordan last years year's state champion for second place in inthe inthe inthe the Salt Lake district there was vas real cause for happiness Perhaps there Is nothing more to te a team a.-team team to a coach coch or 01 to an Individual in sports port competition com com- petition than the of 01 the expert opinion with victory over overa a a. favored opponent It U Is Isa a crat- crat feeling even to a veteran campaigner and when a group of Inexperienced youngsters do the job as completely as LS the Leopards Leop Leop- Leopards ards aids have done It U this this' sea season on under un der del Coach Mickey Oswalds Oswald's di direction direction dl di- theres there's no doubt about how thrilled those lads are S Leopards Overcome Flock Flock of Handicaps I Th The road has not b been n an c easy sy one oneat at East this year car To begin only one 1 letterman capable capable Newell Call Call Call- was was available for duty More Marc diU were heaped on the Leopard mentor when be he lost four of his largest larg est t play players rs because of Ineligibility ti less than a week before the initial g game me with South Thus It was vat the lightest and most inexperienced club in the division that faced a dubious campaign in ct early October The Cubs from South were favored to maul the Leopards generously but East came out on top lop 13 to 7 r A week later when the Leopards invaded Davis it was forecast th that t they would come com h home me with their hides torn to shreds to-shreds by the husky Darts but once again the sent the forecasters t to cover with an 18 to 12 victory Even wh when n the they tied into the Farmers Farm ers from Granite the Leopards rose roseto roseto roseto to great heights with their fighting spirit and even though they lost 19 to 13 they gave Granite its t toughest opposition opposition op op- position of the season Jordan beat East then them 21 to 0 but the Leopards came back with one of their finest exhibitions ex cx of ot the year year- year year- to beat West 1 lQ to 0 0 on Thanksgiving for Jor a brilliant brilliant bril bril- climax S East Con Contributes to toI I Redskin Greatness Coach Oswald I was not harassed by numerous injuries this year but two men men on whom he was banking heavily were lost to him for tor the major major ma ma- jor br part of the season because of mIshaps mishaps mishaps mis mis- haps They were wera Dave Clegg end and Bruce Balkin halfback k One of ot the four men lost by Ineligibility ineligibility at the beginning of at the campaign campaign cam was the captain Dick Mier a tackle Another was Chick Lately pound fullback Compared with some of the teams of the good old days when high schools could field a crew of at giants the he L Leopards looked like a group of Grammar gramma schoolboys schoolboys-It was enough to discourage most an any coach and we ventured to say y as much to Mick MIek late one afternoon when we came upon the Leopard coach working with his youngsters A few days lafer later Mickey's charges upset South and Mickey was he suggested that he owed a vote of thanks to the scribes who mad made his team the he underdog explaining that the boys fought harder than ever just to prove they weren't so had bad I m maze le of green reen en and anel light i. i material at h however wever Mickey put ut a team together torether that became treacherous wherever r It went Against West est the Leopards blocked and tackled with wiLha a pred preci ion that denied the they were pIa play Ing their first season of f football In t truth they made mad good and that Is II a high compliment to to their coach Former Leopard players under Oswalds Oswalds Oswald's Os Os- wald's coaching have been winning their spurs spurs' at the University of Utah too At Atone one time this year one whole side of pt the Utah line e were T Leopard products That was w when Ike Howard Harry and Pete Carlston were in he the lineup together Former Leop Leonards on the squad Included included in In- Roland Sleater conference all Fred Hartenstein nor Gor eton don on Bridge Harvey Brown and Stan |
