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Show Utes nab region championship title The sport of footbull has rx'gitn in the Uintah Basin area and a story about a ftKitball game between the Uintah Utes and the American Fork Caveman follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on October 23, 1958. UTKS SCALP AMERICAN FORK CAVKMICN 13-0. TAKE BIG STEP TO CHAMPIONSHIP The Uintah Utes took a big step toward the league football championship cham-pionship Thursday afternoon of last week when they dumped the American Fork Cavemen in a great grid battle at Uintah High School. Two breaks opened the way lor Uintah to score both their touchdowns in the last half. Before Teddy Corless recovered an American Fork fumble 15 yards from the Uintah goal, both teams' defenses held the offenses outside the 20 yard line. Marc Bingham moved six yards closer on a quarterback keeper around end, his favorite play; Cloyd Mc-Carrel Mc-Carrel advanced eight and then the final one to score. McCarrel also ran across with the extra point. Gambling for the big play that would possibly tie the score, American Fork lost five yards, and threw three incomplete in-complete passes before giving the ball back to Uintah on the Cavemen's 12. In a top play Teddy Corless made an outstanding tackle and recovered American Fork's fumble for the first touchdown with four minutes left to go in the third quarter. George Lee will be listed likely as the outstanding player of the game due to his hard tackling. In the last minute of play he ran 28 yards for a touchdown. During the third quarter Dick Roberts intercepted a pass and stopped a final American Fork drive about in the center of the field. Another Uintah football story follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on October 30, 1958. The Utes completely demolished Union last Friday at Vernal by a tremendous score of 46 to 0. Junior halfback Dick Roberts,- who normally plays defense, got his chance to shine Friday as unbeaten Uintah High School romped past Union 46-0 in a Region Seven football game. The speedy Roberts showed his heels to Union defenders on three long touchdown touch-down runs as the Utes broke loose for 27 points in the final quarter. Roberts ripped off runs of 32, 50 and 85 yards-all going for touchdowns. His 85-yarder came in the final minutes of play. He pulled in a Union punt on his own 15, eluded a tackier on the 45 and picked up a couple of key blocks to cross the goal line standing up. Cloyd McCarrel got the Utes off in the first period, punching six yards for Uintah's first tally. A 30 yard pass from Marc Bingham to Gary Sutton on the 20 counted the second touchdown and co-captain co-captain Lonnie Hadlock fell on a blocked Union punt in the end zone to give the Utes a 19-0 lead. McCarrel got off a 40 yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter, aided by blockers George Lee and Jim Mc-Naughton, Mc-Naughton, and then the subs-and Roberts-came into the game. His first chance came on a double reverse from Jackie Turner and Roberts rambled 32 yards. Next Turner passed 15 yards to Roberts and the fleet back was off again. Then came the 85 yard punt return. The Utes captured the league title due to a 26 to 0 win over Brigham Young High School. The story about the game follows as it was printed.in the Vernal Express November 6, 1958. Uintah High School gridders gained the Class B semi-finals Thursday of last week when they clobbered Brigham Young High 26-0 at Provo. At the Provo game Brigham got the Ute scoring under way when he scored from the one foot line on the eighth play of the game. A plunge through the line failed in the extra point attempt. The second counter came in the second quarter when Bingham passed to Jim McNaughton standing alone in the end zone. Gary Sutton banged his way over for the PAT. With six mintues left in the game it appeared the Wildcats might hold the mighty Utes to 13 points. Then it happened-Uintah broke loose. Showing power all game between the 30s, the Utes led by Cloyd McCarrel, broke the barrier and in two plays scored. McCarrel Mc-Carrel continued by scoring the extra point. Less than a minute later George Lee, fullback, snagged a Wildcat aerial on - the 27 and scampered over for the final Ute score. The PAT failed. The rugged Uintah line, led by Dave Bennion, Ted Corless and big Jerry Murray kept the Wildcat eleven in check all afternoon. The story about Uintah's state tournament battle- with Cedar City follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on November 20, 1958. CEDAR CITY FREEZES , OUT UTES 12-6, SATURDAY , , IN SNOW PACKED SCRAMBLE; ' : It was the c-c-c-coldest football g-g-g-game we ever shivered at. The snowflakes were hitting us faster than bills on the first of the month. And to top it off, if you missed the first five minutes, brother you'd had it! All the scoring came in the first short stretch winding up with 12-6 in favor of Cedar City in the ice capade Saturday at Uintah High School. This guaranteed Cedar's Rcdmen a berth in the State Class B finals at the Ute stadium this Saturday in Salt Lake City. At the start of the first quarter play Cedar's halfback Gary Anderson went 69 yards to a touchdown afler grabbing a sideline pass from quarterback Erie Gardner. The try for the extra point failed. After this blow the Utes bounced back and tied it at 6-6 three minutes later when tackle Jerry Murray pounced on a Cedar City fumble on its four-yard line. After three plays netted two yards, Marc Bingham sneaked and splashed over the goal line. Again no extra point. Anderson took the limelight again. He took the Uintah kickoff on his own 20 and swivelled his way to score-. Nothing but frustration for the both teams until the last few minutes of the game. In the last period Uintah made a late solid, sustained drive down the field and almost made it pay with just two minutes to go. The Utes had driven to within 10 yards and 3 inches of at least a tie. It was justa few short inches that kept the Utes from another first down with just the goal to go. But Cedar City froze the ground and stayed there until the bitter end. |