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Show Lions Score in Final Minute Fo Surprise Lincoln 7-6 to keep tha crown but touchdown touch-down and a conversion in tha last minute of play by Payson crushed the defending champs into submission. sub-mission. Suspense the kind that make knees weak and hands tremble gripped the capacity crowd on tha Tiger field a Payson started a By Ja Bllbera OXXM, Oct M A Payson team that didn't know when to quit ended tha four-year reign of Lin-coin Lin-coin grid supremacy In region three Friday afternoon with a T- victory. vic-tory. The Tigers put up a gallant fight 57-yard drive with four minutes remaining In th contest. flood Margin At this point th Tiger were out in front by six point netted In th third period, and looked like tha 1949 champion, but It wasn't so. Jim Durrant, burly Lion halfback, half-back, started th fireworks with a ramble that want 24 yards for first down on the Tiger 33. Effort by Terry Smith and Durrant pushed th pigskin to tha 23 and Dick Taylor took It tram there to th 1. Th minute were running out but Smith moved th ball first te the 11, ta th T and then to th 2 In aa many trie. It was fourth dawn a minute and a half to play and (79 yards for a first down when Durrant got th ball, but he made the first Sown em the ana to set np the ttraahdawn that came on the next play with big Jim carrying car-rying th freight. FaVsoo atin hadn't won th chgrn-1 SiPMhip because -? tie would give Lincoln the title by half a game, but th Lion didn't stop and Dick Cahoon ran th ball over I for th seventh point that won the gam, the region three championship champion-ship and a chance to play in the clss B semifinals next neck. Couldn't Gala Lalll their final drive, the Uons were unable to gain yardage in the second hslf Just as Payson con-i con-i trolled tha nam in the firt half. iLincsln yielded nothing to the. 'southf rper until that last fatal drive in the final period. Lincoln started its third-quarter touchdown drive from the 38 with jAene Taylor and Floyd Btarieyi doing th rtrrytng. Taylor moved te th 60 through th mid and Siartey netted a firat dawn oa i the 21. From that point 8'arlry BUhed tp th 22 where he set uo the pipy that went U the wav. Qn flviick hard-0( play Floyd scooted around his own right end to go the 'remaining 'remain-ing distance with no on for com-paay com-paay but th fan. The atl-iraaortaat kick waa blocked ta leave th peer -0. Th Liana stgrted moving as anoa a they got tha ball ia th I first period and want to th Lin-ieou) Lin-ieou) 31 before being stopped. Again Ifayson luctcd driving a few minutes min-utes later but bogged down on tha Lincoln 25. A third, drive end the Lions moved, all the way to the Lin-:eola Lin-:eola eight before being stopped cold by tha tight Lincoln defense. Th Tiger neve threatened In th first half, bat at th start of !the third period th tide changed land it waa tha Liona wh went sa defense. j I..7T i. ... - i i - . .Z |