| Show Panthers Score 27 Points in last 10 Minutes but bit Granite G Wins 33 27 If West Vest high schools school's football team leam could have found an unforgiving unforgiving unforgiving giving minute it would have taken takena a line from Kipling and filled it with 60 GO seconds worth of distance run But the time was not to be found Cound and the Panthers lost a 33 27 Big Eight decision to Granite The score stood 33 0 with 10 minutes remaining in the contest Granites Granite's bench was cleared about that time and with that lead The West Vest high spark finally caught fire ire and the Panthers scored 27 points in those 10 minutes With another minute Coach John charges might have easily picked up the necessary win margin Granites Granite's second and third strings allowed the first score and the second and the up fired-up West Vest team was still ready to move when the Farmer regulars came carne back into the ball game Scores Quickly Granite scored in the first minute minute minute min min- ute of play when Roger passed to Ray Smith for 32 yards yard to put the ball on the 28 23 Tonne- Tonne son then hit Smith going around le lest t end and the ball was immediately immediately imme imme- to Monte Howard who went across the pay stripe tripe The fhe extra point kick by Melvin Meter Meier was wide The Farmers racked up another touchdown in the last part of oC the first quarter A Granite kick went over Ross Linnell's head and it was downed by a Farmer on the yard one-yard line West Vest kicked on the first play and the boot was run back to the yard 34 marker Meier located all alone on the left side of the gridiron hit him with a pass and Tonne on casH easily rambled over e the goal line The two teams went scoreless in the second period and the halftime halftime halftime half- half time count favored the Farmers 12 to 0 O. Starts Again ain In the third period the scoring started again and in the opening minute of the second half Ton Ton- neson to Paul Howe Bowe to Buddy White the lateral double play to to the other side gave the Farmers a first down on the five on the first jr t play after they had recovered a West Vest fumble on the Panther 22 On a quick opening pass play Howard hit for a touch touch- down Smith caught a pass for another touchdown moments later Meier went around left end took look a toss out from Howard and went the distance for Cor the third TD of or the period Meter Meier made good all the conversions in this quarter Herb was the lad who pulled the out of their doldrums in those last 10 minutes Coach John eleven cleven which had lacked any luster in the first i 38 minutes of the game looked unbeatable in those final plays First West est cst Score Vest West recovered a Granite fumble fumble fumble fum fum- ble and it took only five plays play's for to go over for the first Panther score then added the extra point After the kickoff Granite was forced to boot booton on the fourth down West Vest started on their own 48 on a fake reverse went to the five West Vest blockers mowed the Farmers down like wheat stocks on the next play and Ross Linnell tallied made it 33 The kickoff three downs a Granite kick and West Vest was ready again On the first play a Granite player intercepted a pass and then fumbled the ball Keith Miller was I ready and waiting and he scooped up the fumble and ad advanced it to I the yard one-yard line added the six points West Vest was after another score and attempted an onside kick The ball was caught and fumbled and West Vest recovered Jack hit Clyde Parkinson over the goal line kicked the extra point and the score read 33 27 with 30 seconds sec sec- left in the game Granite played it safe in those 30 seconds and as the Farmers moved nowhere in playing it that way the clock ran out The Granite team left the field mighty happy with a six-point six win West Vest looked bad for three quarters quarters quarters but in the last 10 minutes the blocking and tackling were hard and the ball carriers were fighting for yards instead of inches Granites Granite's well executed plays in fn inthe inthe the third quarter with Meier Ton Ton- neson and Howard handling the theban ball ban was the item that caused the Farmer victory |
