Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-10-15 | Page 1 | 'Y' Takes Lead over Redskins Early in Game

V 7 TAKES lEAD OVER RED REDSKINS SKINS EARLY IN GAME Christensen ensen S Scores c cor o r e s Touchdown on End Run RunBy By r FRANK J I K BAKER Telegram Sports Editor Brigham Young university took tooka a 7 0 lead over the University of Utah in the Ute stadium Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day afternoon as the Cougars I from Provo fought for their first firstI football victory over the Utes UteS' in I 16 years I Jack Jaek Christensen scored the touchdown for Cor the Cougars on a fourth down run wide around his right end emI from the yard one line after alter a 1 penalty had moved the invaders deep into Ute territory Ken Soffe the extra point The Cougars capitalized heavily on a strong wind after winning the toss and elected to defend the south goal with a mighty breeze at their backs Ken Soffe booted the opening kickoff over the Ute end zone and anda a yard 60 punt which went outside on the yard 10 line a few minutes later kept the Redskins backed up against their own goal line Coach Eddie Kimball now in his second year ear as head coach coach-at at BY B B. Y U. U brought his charges to Salt Lake City at noon and took them directly to the stadium He cast castan castan castan an apprehensive eye at atthe the cloudy skies hoping that the threatening ning rain would hold off until after the game ame A dry ry field Kimball felt was highly important to his hi team for forit forit forit it meant that his touchdown twins Charlie Roberts and and- Jack Chris Christensen Chris Chris- would would then be able to male make the best of their fleetness Meanwhile Coach Ike Armstrong Armstrong Arm Arm- strong sent a comparatively untried untried untried un un- un- un tried and untested team into the fra fray although there was some sonic indication that hat this years year's Utah team tem will be a powerful ana array by mid ember With only one game behind them and that an easy 0 34 victory over Montana State two weeks ago the Utes were not as certain about their prospects as the visitors were WE With a wide array of backfield talent at his command Coach Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong Arm Arm- strong has been spending most of his lis time with the line this fall in inthe inthe inthe the hopes of building a line which will stop the Cougar formations He was most concerned about his guards where the material is in in- in experienced Captain Barney McGarry and Luke Lule Pappas at tackles Bruce Balken and Tom Cory at ends and Ernie Baldwin at center were the veterans upon whom Ike was banking banking banking bank bank- ing for success Steady punting by Paul Snow a running improvement by Tom Pace the teams team's best passer and the elusiveness of ot diminutive Gene Cooper gave Utah hopes of maintaining main maln- taming its s su suj p x r. the colorful S. S The Cougars were expected to present a dangerous aerial threat too with Merrill Waters the end and Ken Soffe in receiving roles Soffe Sofie incidentally is one of the best in the conference He boots the ball with his left foot loot DENVER Oct l 15 Denver 15 Denver university university university uni uni- took a 7 to 0 lead over Utah in the first quarter of their game here today I