Show SPORTS FLASHBACKS Uintah footballers topple lehi Pioneers in region game A football story follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on Oct I 1 1958 All UTES DUMP LElII AFTER FAST RECOVERY IN FINAL PHASE The Uintah Utes met a very stubborn well coached team at Lehi Friday and after being played to a standstill by Lehl Lehi for the first 43 minutes got down to serious business of defending their Region Seven crown The Utes scored twice In the last five minutes of play for fora fora a 12 0 victory by fumbles and penalties At last weeks week's game Lehi won the toss and Uintah kicked to Boyd Peter Peter- Peterson son who returned to the 30 yard line Peterson posed to Pric for five yards Then Peterson carried to the 45 yard line for fora a first down Lehl Lehi was was penalized 15 yards for holding and on the same series they were unable to gain first down and were forced to kick Roberts carried the ball to the 45 yard line and on the first play Jim Lube passed to Jim McNaughton who was stopped on the five yard line The Utes Ules were unable to score with four downs and goal From this point on it seemed Lehi was fired up and Uintah lost Its drive The game seemed to turn Into a fumbling fumbling ing full of penalty penally football game Lehi missed two opportunities to score in the second quarter They miss miss- missed ed a first down by inches as the Uintah team made a great stand and the Pioneers lost the ball on the Uintah two yard line and later pushed to the Uintah 13 yard line before failing Late In the fourth quarter Lehi fumbled on their 27 yard line McNaughton recovered This seemed to tobe tobe be the turning point of the game McNaughton Roberts and Lee carried th the ball bail for a first down then George GeorgeLee GeorgeLee Lee carried it over for a Uintah touchdown Uintah 16 Lehl Lehi O On the try for the extra point Uintah was off offside side George Lee kicked the ball Into the end the ball was put In play on the Pioneers 20 yard line and on the first play Peterson fumbled and Hr- Hr Horrocks rocks of Uintah recovered on the 13 yard line McNaughton hit the center of the line for three then on the next play battered his way over the goal line for the second Uintah touchdown Uintah 12 and Lehl Lehi o 0 Uintah was again off side on the try for the extra point Roberts carried it over but after the penalty of five yards and on the second try they were unable to score the extra point With one minute remaining In the ball game Uintah kicked off and Lehl Lehi try Ing desperately to score fired three un- un unsuccessful unsuccessful successful passes as the gun ended the game The Pion Pioneer er offense was paced by Brent Allred Boyd Peterson and Ben Woolsey Four Lehi linemen sparked the Pioneer defense In holding Uintah until the last few minutes and they were Price Powell Norman and Rosier The Uintah Utes missed co captain Snyder and halfback Lynn who were on the disabled list George Lee Dick Roberts and Jim McNaughton carried the brunt of the offensive attack for Uintah Again It was the entire Uintah team that showed a defensive stand when Lehl Lehi was near pay dirt A football story follows as It was printed in the Vernal Express on Oct 15 1958 UINTAH GRID STARS CLUB AF 7 21 The grid stars clubbed the American Fork Cavemen Into submission submission sion by 21 to 7 Friday of last week in the thet t ua Utes second league game tit of the season This was considered B a major step by the utes toward Region Seven championship After spotting AmerIcan Fork seven points in the early minutes of the game the utes began to find themselves and played their best game of the year both bothon bothon on offense and defense The battle rag rag- raged ed on the Pleasant Grove field Uintah kicked to American Fork and the hosts marched 70 yards In ten plays against the startled Utes Kent was the big ground gainer for the Cavemen and carried over from the seven yard line to score stones booted the extra point to give AF a seven poi t lead American Fork kicked into the end zone and the ball was put in play on Uin Uin- Uintah's tah's 20 On the next play Jim Lube passed to halfback Dick Roberts He was pulled down from the rear on the seven yard line The play covered 70 yards but a clipping penalty set the Utes back to the 22 yard line and the scoring threat died The Cavemen moved the ball to Uin- Uin Uintah's tah's 23 yard where Uintah's powerful line began to get charged up and held American Fork and took the ball on downs This gave the to Utes a taste for vie vic vic- victory tory and In 16 plays they had covered the 77 yards and George Lee burst out from the seven yard line for the Utes first tally They failed to convert the ex ex- ex extra tra point kick and the Cavemen still led by 7 to 6 at the end of the half The score certainly was a team af- af affair affair fair Lube mixed the plays well and theline the theline line was making holes Jor the ball car car- carriers The second half opened with Uintah receiving One play in the second half was all Uintah needed to get ahead In Inthe inthe the game The same combination of Lube and Roberts covered 69 yards on the first play after ater the kickoff and Uin- Uin Uintah tah led 12 to 7 Lees Lee's kick for the extra e tra point was blocked In the fourth quarter the Utes lost a touchdown on the American Fork three yard line but on the first play after American Fork gained control of the ball Brian Wright broke through and tackled Searle of American Fork behind the AF goal for a safety and two points After fter the kickoff Uintah marched 76 yards in seven plays and scored the final touchdown the clincher being a pass from Lube to Britt Horrocks covering 17 yards Dick Roberts added the extra point on a right end run and the game ended up Uintah 21 and American Fork 7 to r rA A football st story ry follows as It was printed in the Vernal Express on Oct 8 1964 MOAB DOWNS o Our utes were defeated last week as the Moab Red Devils punched over two touchdowns In the fourth quarter The 12 0 game was played in Moab Friday Uintah worked very aggressively during the first half keeping the ball on Moab's side of the 50 yard line They were In the Red Devil 20 yard line four times but never could jump across theline the theline line for the all Important scoring Bynum one of the best yardage gainers In Utah and a New Mexico an all all- state player last year began to show his exceptional talent as he moved all allover allover over the backfield carrying the ball 13 out of 15 times in B a 57 yard drive His touchdown came with nine minutes left leftIn leftin In the fourth quarter The second Moab score was carried by halfback Johnny Wright as the last minute ticked away Uintah was on the Moab 5 yard line as the game ended |