Show a R 1 i k f f I II p U t I f fI I u t hy 1 r. r r it I VICTORY CHEER Grand CHEER Grand County school cheer leaders give the victory cheer Friday night after the Red Devils upset favored Union In the opening league game of the football season 2 26 The cheerleaders left to right arc are Carolyn Barton Darton Zelma Zeima Fox and Halline Photo Thorn Photo by Lemaster Red Devils Strike From Afar To Subdue Favored Union 1 11 The Grand County High school I IRed i iRed Red Devils used long range guns to upset a favored Union of Roosevelt Roosevelt Roos Roos- evelt here Friday night in the seasons season's opener and the first conference conference con can ference game of the year 12 to 6 6 61 The took the opening kickoff and launched a yard 72 drive that ended with Jim Burr Durr galloping over from 20 yards out for the first score On the second play of the second stanza Rusty Donahue took a punt from the toe of Jackie Bailey handed off to Felix Telix Murphy on a cross criss-cross and Murphy stormed 70 yards down I he the right sideline for the second Moab score that was the story But Dut while the offensive thrusts stole most of the cheers from the fans ans the outstanding boy on the field Friday night was Moab's Moah's John Mack Mack played four I great reat quarters most of this spent I in the backfield of the Union eleven ele ele- eleven ven where he did more damage to tal Union plays than a wild bull in a achina achina al china closet Time after time Union Union Un Un- ion started what looked like scoring scoring ing marches only to have Mack erect a roadblock and detour the drive Mack drew alot of valuable help helpin in the last half from Monk Bailey Dalley who had moved into a position to help smother the the position to help smother the So effective was Macks Mack's play the only play Unions Union's Clayton Huber could figure for safe yard yardage yardage age age ge was a quarterback sneak uri un un the middle Most of the Union yardage was a result of this play Moab's opening scoring drive was not a smooth one but long thrusts kept it from sputtering out The Red Devils took over the kickoff on their own 28 After one play failed to go anywhere Burr Durr cut over his own right tackle and broke into the clear but was nailed nailed nailed nail nail- ed from behind on the Union 33 yard line Again the drive sputtered and opening game jitters produced a couple of fumbles that ended up in the loss of a couple of yards before Murphy swung around left end lend and roamed to the Union 16 before being roped in Again Moab fumbled but recovered back on the 20 Donahue then off to Burr who juggled the ball for a moment then took off behind beautiful blocking to cross the goal line standing up Moab threatened again in the first period when Monk Bailey intercepted a Union pass to start the drive which went to the UnIon Union Un ion 13 before the drive sputtered lout rout and Moab lost the ball by a fumble Late in the second Union made madea a strong bid that had a touchdown touchdown touch- touch down lown play called back because of an offside penalty Taking over on a short quick-kick quick in midfield Union worked down to the Moab 32 2 From there Huber uncorked a along along long ong pass to Jackie Bailey who had worked into the clear but the Union right end had lined up offside offside off off- side and nullified the play Huber sneaked up the middle for a first down on tha the Moab 26 on the next play lay but on the following effort LeGrand Carter smashed through to o nail Huber who fumbled and Moab recovered Late in the third quarter Union took ook over on a quick kick deep in n Moab territory and launched the scoring drive from 25 yards out ut Moab was penalized five then Morrill ripped into the line for a first and ten on the Moab 11 Huber sneaked to the six then Union ran into its jinx and Mack crashed through to nail Bailey on ho the 14 Morrill Merrill then rammed back tl to the eight and Huber sneaked up ip the middle again to the two- two foot line from where Bailey ed over standing up There were no serious threats for Tor the rest of the evening as the Red Devils clung to their slim lead for the victory The Red Devils take to the road toad this week going to Vernal to play their second conference game The starring starling lineups MOAB 12 pos pas UNION 6 Robertson LE Mack LT Bastian Rockwell LG Jensen Knight C Shields RG Brodrick Carter RT Horrocks Larsen RE L L. Ross Donahue Huber Burr Durr LH J. J Bailey Dailey Murphy RU RII Duncan M. M Bailey FB Morrill Score by quarters Moab 6 6 0 0 12 0 12 Union 0 0 6 G 0 0 6 |