| Show Moab Bows to Strong Dixie Flyers 27 27 0 0 The carriage turned back into a a pumpkin and the I bell tolled midnight Friday as Moab's Cinderella a for the state football title died at too the hands ands of th the Dixie Fl Flyers ers The Red Devils n not t even considered f for r a a playoff pl be beth th bowed 27 to 0 to a adeep adeep deep well well balanced Dixie club in n the quarterfinals Moab h had d won th the right to play t the e game with a 33 33 to 6 win over Uintah and acquitted them- them serves serves well In distant St. St George For three quarters Moab and outplayed the favored l Flyers though trailing 7 to 0 O. A fumble put them behind In the first quarter and they never could recover Perhaps the turning point of ol the game came when Moab failed to score from the four yard line as as' the first half ended That was the last of the f frustrations frustrations as as Dominated Dixie th the se se second cond coni half with a horde hord of reserves and alternating lines I Ken IKen Snow scored the second second second se se- se- se cond Flyer TD c capping a d- d 71 yard march at the theof e of the third quarter and d that put Moab in the tion of playing cat caton up I i Flyer Bruce Anderson Anderson picked off two Mike Brown passes jasses in the final quarter and Dixie turned them into touchdowns Moab's stellar fullback Bill Curfman led the first half offensive charge and the Devil line held well Dixie however poured a largo large number of fresh players players play play- ers us Into the game on every change of possession and the tiring Devil forwards couldn't hold forever Crever Moab up the season sea sea- season son with a 7 win 3 loss record a fine performance considering the number of crippling Injuries the Devils rc received elved They also could claim a title for fOl Region Six Southern Division A well proved point was that the sled Red Devils were not afraid of the big enrollment Uintah teams That taunt was handled nicely perhaps per haps imps so nicely that the quarterfinals were an anti anti- climax J 9 |
