| Show Utah State upsets BYU From the outset it was the Aggie defense which bottled up the vaunted Brigham Young University University ty offense and a at t the end it was the same unit which snuffed out the Cougars final bid for victory as Utah State pulled off a stunning 2017 20 victory before damp fans Saturday While the defense was magnificent all afternoon the hungry needed points to win And points they got as quarterback Doug Samuels enjoyed his finest day Samuels threw three touchdown passes and all three went to different receivers His first score which wiped out BYUs BYU's early 3 30 0 lead went nine yards to brother James Touchdown pass No 2 went to Fred Fernandes a 33 in the end zone on which the former Roy High star suffered suf a leg in- in injury injury jury which sidelined him for the rest of the day And what proved to be bethe bethe the winning score a yard 73 bomb went to fleet Paul Lines who beat two Cougar defenders ers to slip away BYU did not penetrate the zone until the second half No other team this season not Georgia not Air Force not HawaII nobody could boast of keeping mighty BYU out of the end zone for a full half of play The Cougars scored touchdowns in the third and fourth quarters Quarterback Steve Young who entered this longtime rivalry as the leading offense gainer in the coun- coun country country try but whose stats scats will take a beating this week hit Mike Eddo with a yard 35 scoring pl play y and then found Gordon Hudson with a yard 12 touchdown pass in the fourth quarter Except for Kurt Kurt Gun Gun- Gunther's Gunther's ther's yard 44 field goal goal- his longes longest of his career career- BYU never led after the first quarter The playing very very well on defense and having one of their finest offensive pro pro- productions productions of the year on of- of offense offense rolled up 14 second second- quarter points to lead 3 14 at halftime Not all the glory goes to the defense TheD The D stop stop- stopped stopped ped BYU on the Aggie yard 15 line after BYU had hada a two third at the 16 BYU smothered two plays which netted a yard and with 3 51 left in the game the defense turned the ball over to the offense and begged their mates to pro pro- protect protect the lead They did And they did it with good old fashioned nosed hard football Except for a key third six pass comple- comple completion completion tion from Samuels to Eric McPherson which gained 10 yards and ran ranat ranat at BYU and ran sue suc- successfully Maurice Turner and Eric Adams got the valuable time consuming yardage which ate up every second of those nearly four final minutes |
