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Show 9th Grade Football Sessbns Start A strong backfield, spearheaded by two. hard-throwing hard-throwing quarterbacks, and a line heavy with talent tal-ent makes Moab freshmen football coach, Del Ford, grin a little as he prepares his junior high gridders for their season opener Sept. 16 against Cortcz. Coach Ford, with more than 40 hopefuls out this year, has labeled his 67 s;quad, "not exceptionally strong as far as size is concerned but a team witn a lot of football sense." And for this reason and a few others, Ford is looking forward to a good season. Ford and his new assistant assist-ant coach, Dwayne Lee, a recent graduate of Utah State University, are currently cur-rently working with two Quarterbacks, Kim ' Neal and Greg Jacobson, boi-h capable of starting assignments. assign-ments. Also' in the backfield is hard-running fullback Mike Butler,' fleet-footed slot back Brent Williams and halfback Robin Grolf to name a few. ; On , the freshman line, center R'on Carroll is expected ex-pected to see a lot of action ac-tion this year as are receivers receiv-ers Gale Gordon and Rick Hirschfeld. Coach Ford hopes to play seven games this season as a tentative schedule has been set up, which includes in-cludes the opener with Cortez, two games with Monticello, tw0 with v 'f la Colorado, one Blanding and ono Zt Green River. e Home games this se will be scheduled on Sa day afternoons with opening kickoff slatori 1 1:00 p.m. 3 Last year the local , men had a successful son, winning four of i"'11'" contests, including thr shutouts as they boJP Monticello, 52-0 and 1 :? ' aiV Nucla, 31-0 " ch SA |