Show S Po O r t s Mirror L JOHN By fly MOONEY MOONE MOONE Telegram Sports Editor When Rex Sutherland special specialS S football analyst for The Salt Lake Telegram explains a a. particularly difficult offensive or defensive maneuver maneuver maneuver ma ma- he knows wherein heIS he IS peaks speaks although many of the younger generation may have never rever heard of the football ex exploits exploits ex- ex I ex-I of one Shifty Sutherland F on cn the Utah teams of almost three decades ago Looking at Rex today tall taU lean leant t and ind slightly grey one would hesitate hesitate hesi hesi- f tate to believe that this lanky l coach once played as a pound player in the days when brawn and beef were the essentials of good football teams Back In 1911 1011 the name of Shifty Sutherland first flashed across the Intermountain football football football foot foot- ball sky and so brilliantly did this youth play that the experts named him to a halfback post poston C on the tho Rocky All-Rocky Mountain conference conference cono con- con o ference team Twice more in 1912 and 1913 II U was the name of Shifty Sutherland erland to take its place on the honor role of the conference all first team and all this time 4 t Shifty weighed u under n a d e r t pounds e e 4 n Today coaching football at Granite high school Rex ranks with E Earl rl Ferguson of Box BoxElder Elder Elders r RS s the oldest coach in point of service to one institution both paving having started their twenty-second twenty year of coaching at their respective tive schools S fI Dixon Kapple Ogden high menor men mert- tor or has the longest record 23 years but Dixon is out of the coaching ranks doing his bit In inthe the army right now V Sutherland getting back to F his college da days s 's handled most of S the tM passing for the Utes Utes' and a ao ao o o- olot lot of the running hence the thea a Shifty cognomen V But football wasn't his only love Jove Rex having pla played ed quite 0 4 a bit as catcher for the Utah I baseball team And If I could have ha hit a lick Uck Rex smiles I IC IR C R might have gone up a wa ways s 's In InS S baseball I V. V Leaving the university Suther- Suther 5 land Jand went out on the Copper as asan asan asSan an San engineer where he spent seven years ears became tough on cn the hill Rex shifted his talents to o Granite where he told the officials officials he would coach football for fora a year That was almost 22 years ago and hes he's still at the Farmer I institution going strong fl During his tenure at Granite Sutherland developed numerous district champions and two state championship teams e P. I r- r Sutherland has alwa always s 's favored ored S the singly single wingback type of of of- I lense mixed with the punt fori for- for matlon matton but but he's hes he's hard die-hard i no sin sin- u u. gle wing ving man as ai evidenced by the spread formations shown by 4 t the Farmers In recent years ears and andi i the T formation used this year ear 5 Football has changed a lot though according to Sutherland who Mho believes now that the theno o. o coaches have ha taken the game away from the boys In my day Rex flex said we 1 1 had some plays but bute we e ve used our judgment when we were out t ie eon on the field and Tommy Fitz- Fitz j Patrick was calling the signals ar i The scouting scouting- is so complete completeS S inow now too that the opponents know more about us than we do ouri our our- i selves H In my day there was litS littIe lit- lit S tIe Itle or no scouting and Md the plays Just came cam and went as we saw fit K Then the substitution has changed things a lot too Rex concluded When I was playing playing- R a player who had been taken out in ln in the second half couldn't go goback goback goback back into the g game knie nie wl which h cut ut down substituting a lot even if we had bad had the men to use use useL a a- lot T S Rex was only taken out of or the game once in his college career because of injun injuries injuries' s s' s and nd that tha was against Pamona |