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Show Redskins Beat Farmers, 27-0 , I .X - s ' ' V :SpS?'" : - - ,- i M. Maughan I V' ' $ ; q h . iJTT ; Merrill J , I Smith 5t,,-ck Cf . Ppp -- - i. -y r . . . . Ures Will Share Flag If Denver Ties or Downs Colorado . By JOHN MOONEY Climaxing a football season which had the fans visloning bowl games one week and tearing their hair the next the University of Utah RedsklnS Thursday rolled over a greatly-outmanned Utah State squad. 27-0, in their annual battle in Utah stadium to annex the state grid title and remain in the running for the conference crown. As far as the Utes are concerned, their football season Is over, but you can bet that more than one Redskin, including Coach Ike Armstrong, Arm-strong, will be watching the preiui reports of the Denver-Colorado tilt in Boulder this coming Thursday with more than a little interest. For open the result ef this tussle hinges the lutes' final standing In the conference wan. If Colorado -beats Denver, then Ttah ends up holding the ak "and the Buffs will take " first"" place In the league. However, It ' Denver wins, then the Utes get a tla with Denver for the title, : . and, even If Denver should hold Colorado to a tie, the t'tes eonld still claim a tie with Colorado. Although the Utes had the ball game anytime they wanted to turn on the power, the Aggies gave ' everything they had to keep the score down to respectibility. Handicapped by Injuries which riddled their forward wall and then crippled mortally when their sparkplug, Seth Maughan, was taken from the game early in the second quarter with injuries, the Aggies were forced to rise to tha heights to hold the Utes partly in check. As It was. the I'tes were superior su-perior In every department, la spite ef tha, fact that Coach Armstrong used almost three teams In the fray, the Utes gained t3 yards from scrimmage scrim-mage to the Aggies' 16; 11 from passes to the Staters' M, , far a total of 41 yards to -the Aggies' in. This fourth down play led to Utah's fourth touchdown. Captain Jack McKissick passed in tha flat son to Izzy Speetor, who lateraled to Pete Bogden. Bogden was forced outside on the 18-yard line lifter the play had gained 1 yards. Speetor went around right end to score few moments later. ' if t, ... fT , Except for four 15-yard penalties, penal-ties, the score might have been worse, but Referee Lou Vidal apparently ap-parently was watching the Utei closely for holding smd shoving. However, the Utah penalties were softened somewhat when the Aggies Ag-gies were penalized to within a yard of their goal line for piling on the ball carrier, which enabled the Utes to score their second touchdown. Ten Seniors Thursday's game marked the final collegiate football activity for 10 men who should be hard to replace re-place next year. Heading the list is Captain Jack McKissick, the pudgy little field general. Others who will graduate m June are Tom Pace and Clarence Gehrke, two of the .best runners in Utah history: Bill Swan, rated one of the headiest quarterbacks In tha conference; Jimmie Haig, Bob Childs and Bob Farrell, centers; Fred Kaul. guard; Luke Pappas respectively. If ever graduating stars had a perfect day to close their careers, the Thursday was it. Under almost al-most balmy weather, before a crowd of 15,715, the Ute seniors turned in th best gam of their lives. To attempt to pick a star for th Utes out of the Thursday galaxy would be futile, for it was such a game that everyone looked good. Even with the so-called third team in action. Gay Adelt tossed a perfect per-fect pass to Quarterback Eob Johnston for a touchdown. Th fact that the play was called back and the Utes penalized for holding took nothing from the fin work by Adelt and Johnston oa the play. For th Aggies, "however, on man towered as a bulwark abov the surging Redskin flood. Murray Mur-ray Maughan, rated on of th best centers In th conference, Thursday played th finest gam of his career to keep the Utes somewhat in check. It was Maughan who made almost half th Aggies' tackles, who centered the ball perfectly, who did tome of the best offensive blocking on th field. Score la Hurry Striking with the fury of a tropical trop-ical thunderstorm, the Utes blasted blast-ed over and around the Aggie forward for-ward wall for a touchdown In the first three minutes of play. With Pace and Speetor doing yeoman service as ball carriers, the Redskins Red-skins swept from their own 37 (CeaUajuMI ea FoUewmi re Utes Turn Back Ags In Powerful Exhibition: Conttnud Tnm Prattding Pag across the Aggie goal line in Just 10 plays. Two passes, the first to McKissick and the second to Carlos Soffe, covered about 23 yards in the drive. For the first time In many moons, Izzy Spector's attempted placement went awry, but this was more than evened up when Seth Maughan left the game with Injuries In-juries shortly after. Up until Maughan left the game, the Aggies played with high hope because his long booming punls had eased the tension on the Aggies Ag-gies twice by setting the Utes deep In their own territory. For the remainder of the quarter, quar-ter, the Utes were content to play a cat-and-mouse game with the crippled Aggies, although the game was not at all one-sided, thanks to some fine ball carrying by Mike Stlpae and Frank Olsen. After taking the ball on their own 20 when the Aggie passing attack bogged down, the Utes launched another drive which was culminated by Turner's power thrust over the center for the second sec-ond touchdown. This time it v. as Spector and Gehrke who did the most ball toting, aided and abetted by a piling penalty which set the Aggies back to their own one-yard line. This time Spector split the uprights to make the score 13-0 for the Utes. Taking the ball on their own 41, the mighty Redskins surged up the field again to score. This march, featuring a long Gehrke-lo-Bogden ' pass, took the Utes only seven plays to reach pay dirt, with Pete . Bogden going wide on an end-1 around to score. Spector spiraled a placekick over the uprights for the twentieth point. On a reverse play early In the third quarter, Izzy Spector sped around Utah's right end for tne 1 marker without a hand being laid upon hira as the Ute blockers really real-ly mowed down the opposition. Their final touchdown march started on the Utah 45 and needed only 11 plays by the Utes. Everyone, with the possible exception ex-ception of the loysl Aggie rooters, was satisfied with the outcome, and even the Aggies were satisfied that the score was as reasonable as it w as. I |