Show r 1 A d W. W e ss I PREP DIGEST By Marion Dunn I I MIDVALE i ALE Special Allan AllanI I Dumas year old elect captain of the 1952 Jordan High School football team was killed when discharged discharged discharged dis dis- a gun was accidentally charged in the car he was driving here Sunday Chad Beel Beckstead stead tall husky teacher at Jordan and a member of the bishopric in Midvale's l Second Sec ond Ward rard cleared his throat before before before be be- fore speaking to Dale Jordans Jordan's football coach in the latter's home Monday morning We Ve want to know if you will twill willbe willbe be a speaker at Allan AUm Dumas Dumas' funeral Beckstead said Wed like you to represent the school Say what type of boy he was both in the classroom and on the athletic field Will Vill you do it Dale pulled his feet up under him on the couch Yes he said slid Ill I'll do it it iL There was ryas more conversation after that then the front door clanged shut as lS Beckstead and Cy walked to their car Dale stood by his rear window window win win win- dow looking out on the row after row of green fields Remembers Poem He underwent a moment of panic as he wondered how he could put his thoughts into words and as he wondered about the change that had taken place in only 24 hours hours' A stanza from Al AI fred Tennyson's poem In Memoriam Memo Memo- nam came to his mindI mind I III hold it true befall I J feel it when I sorrow most better to have ha loved and lost Than never to have lo ed at atall all Dale stood there and remembered remembered remembered re re- the opening game of the 1951 Big Eight football sea season son Jordan was playing East under the lights at Sandy The two teams were werl evenly matched but during the game a small figure in the Red fled and Grey of Jordan gathered in an In East punt and twisted and turned back I down the field to score the win win- win winning ning touchdown Dales Dale's thoughts jumped the space then to the final game of the season this one against West Vest I and with undisputed second place in the Big Eight at stake Turns Victory I West rest defeated Jordan 14 13 in that one but Monday i Dale could I see the energy driven form of I Dumas as he g gathered in a punt and ran to one of Jordans Jordan's scores I hand and then took a pass from I h Vaughn for the sec sec- I ond land I There were starring roles in between the two o games for forI I Dumas and he finished the season season sea sea- son as Jordans Jordan's leading ground I gal gainer er Nor Dale and Allans Allan's was relationship relationship re reo ended with the football foot fool football ball season beason During the winter Allan Allan Al Al- lan an was manager of the sophomore sophomore sophomore i more basketball team which Dale coached In the I 1 spring Dale sat satin in in the audience as Allan talked his way into the position as student student stu stu- I dent body judge for Dumas had the student body I laughing that day as he did lid an impersonation of Red Skelton I and his election was a cinch There was the baseball season when Dumas played centerfield and helped lead the I to their Big Eight crown In one I game after Dumas had made a good catch of a ball hit to himin him himin in center he lie came in and cracked How could they ever get along without me me Changing Picture A couple of innings later he struck out at a crucial moment i and when he came back he snarled Why dont don't they put some one in my place With ith the end of the school year came talks about next t fall falland falland falland and what the backfield of Dumas Dunn LePore and would do in the league There was this summer and a aboy aboy aboy boy working for Midvale City and spurning power driven lawnmowers lawn lawnmowers mowers so that he could push one by hand and get in in shape for football There was this same boy helping with the city garbage collection in the morning then hurrying out to play with the American Legion Junior nine and laughing off taunts of Hey Sow Wagon Kid the ball doesn't t dare get within 10 feet reet of you OU cant can't stand the smell There was the knowledge that this boy whose name wouldn't wouldn t appear in n Jordans Jordan's lineup next fall would live forever in m giving recognition to Jordans Jordan's best football players each year For Monday Marv Jenson manager of Rex Layne who is is in training in inVest West Vest Jordan for his coming bout with Ezzard Charles said that during two days this week admission would be charged to drills and the I Laynes Layne's proceeds would go to a fund to give an annual Allan Dumas Memorial award to Jordans Jordan's best football player Thus the name of a boy who once mice once carried bats for Jenson's Jenson's Jen Jen- sons son's Valley Mink l softball team was certain of being enshrined There was all this and one thing more II better to have ha loved and lost Than ne cr to have loved at all |