Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-11-10 | Page 13 | Pioneers, Age Stage Good Show before Small, Docile Turnout

Pioneers Good Show Shove jf j jre Before re Small Docile Turnout By REX SUTHERLAND Veteran Granite high coach and special Telegram football analyst The final home game of the 1941 Utah Aggie football schedule was played very played very quietly quietly Satur Satur Saturday day in the spacious A AC C stadium on an ideal November afternoon before a small crowd of students who came late left early and showed no particular interest in inthe inthe inthe the game and a few football fans who also came late and soon became as docile as the students The had two strikes on them before the game started They entered the empty stadium some slowly slowly some 20 before before before be be- fore game time for warming-up warming exercises which were run through heartedly half and then with With- drew They reentered reentered more more slowly slowly- the still empty stadium just before before before be be- fore game time and mechanically took their places on the field Despite all this the he game itself was as interesting and lively as one would wish to see after the first few minutes The only thing lacking was the outside color and which one expects to see at a college football game Both teams had a large variety of plays and each used many lateral lateral lateral lat lat- eral spinners and reverses all of which made for an interesting game The used the Tand T Tand Tand and long punt formations the latter for kicking and also passing passing passing pass pass- ing in the last quarter They had many good plays and the quarterback quarterback quarterback quarter quarter- back was clever in his selections The execution of the plays was very poor however The were able to gain fairly consistently between the yard 20 lines but their offense bogged down once they got in scoring territory or D DU U tightened tightened tightened tight tight- ened or both On pass plays the Aggie passer had very little protection even when he was back in kick forma forma- tion This may have been responsible responsible responsible sible for the passer being unable to hit the mark or even come close to it The D DU U boys used the T as asa asa asa a basic formation shifting from it to either a single wing double wing short punt or long punt for for- mation The Pioneers did not stall a at t any time during the game Near the end of the first half when they were vere leading 7 0 the they y threw flat zone passes on their r own yard 20 line On one of these thes e the could have scored ha had d dl the boy been able to hold the ball bal l after after an easy interception These two teams usually put o oa on ona ona n a good show and take talce man many ny y chances They did just that i in inthis inthis n this game but in so doing the they y ye made a good game out of on one e which could have easily been very slow and uninteresting