Show LOCAL SQUAD PILES UP YARDAGE AGAINST VERNAL BUT COMES OUT ON SHORT END OF COUNT grand county high schools football team met defeat at the hands of uintah high school at vernal monday by a score of 76 7 6 A wide kick from placement after the moab touchdown prevented a tie score observers of the game state that grand county should have won by three or four touchdowns the moab boys played heads up football until they reached the shadow of the vernal goal posts when their ottense appeared to collapse twelve times the grand county squad advanced the ball to uintah s 20 yard line but only once were they able to go over for a touchdown the moab eleven amassed a total of yards from scrimmage meanwhile holding uintah to a mere 50 yards moab earned no less than 28 first downs during the game while uintah made but tour first downs moab completed four long passes while uintah was able to complete one toss behind the line of scrimmage not once during the game did offense threaten goal line and yet uintah won the game 76 7 6 the game went scoreless until the last quarter when P shafer went over tor a touchdown tor moab the kick for extra point was wide in the last few minutes of play moab tumbled a punt behind her own goal line and a uintah man fell on the ball for a touchdown uintah caught the moab line napping to go through for the extra point thus winning the game I 1 the long mile bus trip to vernal added to the higher altitude of the uintah town probably caused the defeat of the moab team as they lacked their usual snap the game was one of those fluke contests that occasionally mark football encounters the moab team however met defeat fairly even though at the hands of an admittedly mitt edly weaker aggregation coach glenn men ill and his squad and H B evans of the high school faculty who acted as an official in the game returned from vernal tuesday evening while the coach and his men are somewhat disgusted with the result of the tilt they are in no manner discouraged and are determined to redeem themselves in the remaining conference games moab journeys to loosevelt Hoo sevelt for a game with duchesne high on oct 24 and on oct 31 carbon high of price will play grand county on the moab field f |