Show Uintah to host Morgan Friday in season opener The Uintah Utes will open the 1977 football season Friday at when they take on the Morgan High School Trojans in ina a practice game in Vernal MORGAN HIGH School was defeated by A 3 Woods Cross last week 8 B to 3 in the first game of the season for the Trojan foot footballers bailers Uintah's offensive backfield coach John Greene scouted the game for forthe forthe the Utes Greene said Morgan L i 4 g A i Y yS r C Cr r r t r z an i 4 1 t LA t Y 4 lh dW IP AI- AI t 1 0 Jiw h I iIa W. W If r I I ITOM TOM BALTZER Uintah line coach watches the football sail by a Uintah football player during practice JJ It t J J Jf made first game mistakes that cost them the game They are a avery avery avery very aggressive team and have havea a lot of speed and are pretty quick We felt they should have won the ball game Woods Cross has a good size club Morgan had a good defense in the game The defense is usually ahead of the offense this time of the year It takes lakes a while for the timing liming of your our offense to get going Woods Cross scored a touchdowns touchdowns touchdowns touch touch- downs in the first half but missed the extra point Morgan scored a field goal in the first half Woods Cross gained a safety in the second half to tomake tomake tomake make the final score Woods Cross 8 and Morgan 3 Greene remarked that Jeff Peterson quarterback and Curtis Jones linebacker- linebacker tailback were the outstanding players on the Morgan team Morgans Morgan's starting offense against Woods Cross consisted of of- Jeff Peterson quarterback Dana Russell fullback Curtis Jones tailback Mark Archuleta Archuleta Archuleta Ar- Ar flanker Larry Brumley tight end Dennis Peterson Tackle Carl Clark guard Kyle Brimley center Todd Huff guard Eric tackle and Merrill Johnson split end ME OF OK the Uintah varsity football team are Seniors Jeff McLean center Wayne Hardin Hardinger er tackle Cla Claye e Robb wide receiver r Garson Chivers Olivers linebacker r 1 Y er ir wr w Kl r rh Ps f V. V W ix wo WT T u W- W V IQ M V tf V h KJ t j r. r Sy P TT r y r V v a fc a v r I. I fc x rj rt r- r s k t 25 21 w UINTAH'S SCOTT WOODHOUSE sends the football on a trip alter after having performed a kick I. TT I L as 1 J p r ra r 11 r ti dd Y r l 1 y t 1 1 t r been kicked Horrocks during Uintah THE FOOTBALl SAilS away after oher having by Finley football practice last lat Friday Rick Birch wide receiver Scott Woodhouse quarterback Kim Pettit tackle David Kay wide receiver ver Darrell Hacking running back Floyd Morton wide receiver Jeff Weeks center Jim Person fullback John Goodrich tight end Gary Redden center Finley Horrocks running back Weston Nelson guard John Pearson guard Jr Tripp linebacker Mike Samuels tight end Brad Shumway wide receiver Chris Wardell guard Shawn King running back Mark Arnold tackle Calvin Murray tackle and Dan Cozart Junior members of the Uintah varsity football team are La Lavon von guard Steve Smith tight end Dave Freland tackle Bart Murray guard Lance Morton wide receiver Morgan Woodhouse quarterback quarterback quarterback Don Johnson guard Don Williams tackle David Good running back Brad Oakland tackle Doug Person guard Lynn Stoll linebacker Randy guard Howard Porter wide receiver Jim Justice linebacker Barry Frank tackle Wayne Huber tackle Todd Parker manager and Brad manager If the kids Uintah play football the way they can we can beat Morgan Our offense isa isa is isa a basic one without any fancy plays We are trying to get our timing down Our defense will consist mainly of a 44 stack which is four linemen four linebackers two and a safety commented Greene Tim TILE HEAD Im football coach at Uintah High School is Curg Belcher John Greene is the offensive backfield coach Tom Baltzer is the offensive and defensive line coach Chuck Henry will help with the line and will coach the sophomore team Kerry Rupp will work with the varsity backfield and will coach the sophomore team learn Till THE UTES VIES will host the Carbon High School Dinos on September 16 in the first region contest of the year for Uintah will start at pm p.m. Richard Cunningham has been switched from the defense to quarterback this year for the Dinos Gary Smith senior Mark Miller junior and Barry Woodruff a sophomore as well as s Cunningham are battling for forthe forthe forthe the quarterback position A number of seniors with experience for Carbon are Ted Smith fullback Jim Snyder and Tracey Law halfbacks Nick Kandaris Ralph Keele and Garret Van Wagoner slot backs Kelly Smallwood and Jeff Failer split ends Eddie Howa Dave Halverson and Kenny lenny Dell Bell right ends and John Winters Kevin Welts Wells Frank rank Mike Wells Ian MacDonald MacDonald Mac- Mac 1 Donald onald Jae Potter and Pat Orr linemen The rest of the Uintah schedule is as follows Timp- Timp view at Uintah September 23 homecoming Uintah at Murray September 30 Cyprus at Uintah October 5 Uintah at atUl Ul Union on October 14 Tooele at Uintah October 20 and Uintah at Judge Memorial October 28 |