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Show c j ' uls . y. g3h w li miw fv " This photo of the Grand County High School football team of 1932 was taken the day the team defeated Carbon High School, November Novem-ber 9, 1932. The team was headed by coach Glen Merrill with team members, back row, Jack Goodspeed, Robert Riordon, Dean Voorheis. Verd Duncan, Dean Shafer, Bob Goudelock, Paul shafer, Mitch Williams, Glen Quigley, Jack Walker and Floyd Allen. Front row, Norman Andrews, Orson Day, Hub Newell Carl Johnson, Earl Shafer, Jim Winbourn, and Don Bronson' (Photo courtesy Jack Walker) Moab's 1932 Gridders Were Scrappy Bunch Moab's Red Devil football team is going great guns this vear but former football, squad members look back to days when winning a game took more than just practice. It meant working around hardships posed by the depression dep-ression days which were just ending. ' The Grand County High School team of 1932 not only fought battles on the field with opponents from all over the state, they fought against poverty and came out well with both foes. Unable to ri afford new uniforms for the entire team in 1932, the eleven ele-ven regular members of the squad received the new jer-sies jer-sies while the subs played in the somewhat less glamorous glam-orous old uniforms. Nevertheless they pro- r gressed, without the aid of "in class" competition, to the state championship playoffs. play-offs. There they defeated Carbon High School and Park City before going down to defeat at the hands of Tooele by a score of 19-16. |