Show Out of Bounds J With BILL COLTRIN COLTRIN J 1 A high school football season which proved to be as good as any practically will be concluded conclude this week dying out without th the usual fanfare of the state championship championship cham cham- playoffs While p pIa play 1 a y 0 of f f fa S are swell things in hi peacetime It Is Just as asell aswell well vell ell that they are forgotten this 3 year ear 1 the kids would like to play for the championships but they've they had their fun and can argue for the rest of their lives about which teams would have ha grabbed the laurels this fall We dont don't believe that there wilbe Willbe Will wil willbe be much argument about the strength of Davis Carbon Granite Ogden and North Cache and any o ot of these teams can probably find justification justification jus jus- in title claims Among the class B schools Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray American Fork Wasatch high of Heber a and n d Delta probably would stage an elimination if playoffs playoffs playoffs play play- offs were to be staged Selections Difficult This lack of state title games Is causing the state all-state pickers no end of confusion for in past years these games were used as a final fina test for the favored players Noone No Noone Noone one person can expect to pick a reasonable state all-state team any year and this year without the playoffs it becomes even more of a hit or miss proposition Considering that before this year ear the state all-state selections were were made largely on the basis of just the playoff tilts it Is possible that an even en better balanced team can be selected At any rate the choice is difficult this fall Final Guesses After trying to pick the winners in n the prep races all season with season with dubious success well success well we'll wind it up this his week with three selections from rom Region One where weve we've had better than average luck all fall I Speaking of the seasons season's record record rec rca ord heres here's how It stands Wee eve e tried our judgment on 75 5 games Forty-eight Forty of these have ha come I out exactly as ase we e promised and six have ha ended in ties It can be ascertained that no one figures ties when speaking in percentages percentages per- per so that our batting average average aver- aver age ge is a mediocre and our hopes lopes are high that by picking three for three this week the final seasons season's record will show better than han Ogden Over North Cache Anyhow heres here's the w way a y the games fames up north are rated Ogden to o beat North Cache and win the Region legion One crown Both teams have lave won four and tied one the Ogden tie coming in the South Cache Jache game and the North Cache team earn being deadlocked by Weber Ogden beat Weber 20 0 and North Cache beat South Cache 14 0 to give gi the Tigers just a bit better and showing and since both teams team have hae defeated Logan and Box Elder by almost identical scores this Is about the only way to rate the two clubs It'll be a battle After two weeks of very dis disappointing p- p pointing showings we like South Cache Jache to rebound and beat the Box BoxElder BoxElder BoxElder Elder Bees in another game up north orth and in the third Logan should hould defeat Bear River handily Herere Some Statistics A statistician from sent ent us in some figures which are areather rather ather interesting He claims that Davis in its four toughest league games ames this year made yards net et gain while holding the opponents nt to a total of yards net Heres Here's the breakdown Against Jordan ordan tied 6 Davis made yards Jordan made Against Cyprus the Darts made yards Cyprus 84 In the Tooele game Davis avis made to its opponents' opponents 13 3 and Davis piled up yards in inthe inthe the he Granite game while the Farmers Farmers Far Far- Farmers mers were making 77 While hile It wasn't mentioned Inthe in inthe the he missive e we received from Kays ille we suspect that the person was looking for an argument argo- argo ment about the state champion champion- ship I And that's Just what we wont won't enter into For some citizen from down own around Price would probably come ome up with some figures to show that hat the Carbon Dinosaurs make makeup makeup up p quite a ball club also They're both swell teams and both oth coaches Tuffy Linford at Davis and Jackson Jewkes at Caron Car- Car bon can on can take a bow for fine jobs I |