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Show h ; Li i i ! ( '1 . 1 f PREPARING TO SEE "PLENTY OF ACTION" for the American Fork Cavemen during the current football season are, 1. to r., Kirk Magleby, Louis Strasburg, Ray Coddlngton, Kyle Walters, Doug Bennett, Caveman to f.!eat Springti Red Devils Here Friday at 3 Friday at 3 p.m. the American Fork Cavemen and the Spring-vllls Spring-vllls Red Devils will play each other on the Cavemer. Campus In an unusual Football game. Unusual because both teams were first round winners and then since the openers have not been able to win. Springville clobbered the Orem Tigers while A. F.trouncedPro-vo, F.trouncedPro-vo, but since then both teams seem to have lost the winning touch. Springville with their win over Orem has made the Tigers a very tough customer for oth?r teams and the Cavemen felt their vengence last week as the Tigers Ti-gers rolled to a 31-13 win. Orem with a strong running game featuring Val Oveson and Ron Cox, battered the Cavemen. front wall for touchdowns in every quarter as the Tigers won impressively. im-pressively. The game might have been won on the game's third play, with Orem in possession facing athird and eight situation and A. F. looking look-ing very strong on defense against the running game. Jim Marshall, Orem q.b., lofted a pass to Oveson Ove-son who went went from the Orem 40 to the A. F. 20 and on that play ihe adrenalin was running strong for Orem. From then on the Cavemen were mostly on defense de-fense trying to contain the run ners. Orem scored once in the first, twice in the second period to take an 18-0 lead before A. F cculd get unt racked on offense and then with Dennis Beck throwing the key block. Brad Deveraux tossed a perfect pass to Glade Bullock for an 18-6 halftime score. Orem then ran for two more touchdowns as the score mounted 61-6, and an Orem punt rolled dead on the A. F. one yard line, Deveraux then engineered the best drive of the day for A. F. fans with short little lookin passes pas-ses to Beck and Steve Hallsey. The Cavemen drove down to the Tigers 11 and Dennis Parker on a tackle slant scored the t.d. from there. A play with the Orem q.b. in motion handing off to Oveson . on in off tackle reverse was the play that A. F. was never able to contain. Marshall was able to complete crucial passes which caused the A. F. downfall. Coach Tom Crittenden's A. F. charges displayed an excellent passing game once more but the Cavemen's ground game just did not go for the game differences. Springville conquered Orem 29 to 14, Orem defeated Pleasant Grove 49-0, and then P. G. defeated de-feated the Devils last week 8-0, so how do you figure out this game of football. Springville' s win over Orem came on the arm of senior quarterback quar-terback Lynn Allen passing to a hnst of catchers for the Devils. Allen a southpaw thrower and a fancy stepping halfback named Mike Marshall, will provide A. F. "Allow me to introduce myself, Vernice Robinson of American Fork. I have been employed at Bayly Mfg. Co. In Pleasant Grove since July 19C8. I appreciate ap-preciate the people am associated with at Bayly and the opportunities that are available. The experienced ex-perienced operators (8 months or more) . average over $2.00 per hour at the Bayly plant." People Are Our Most Important Asset! Bayly Manufacturing Co. in Pleasant Grove has immediate openings foi mature women interested in becoming skilled sewing machine operators. No experience necessary earn a good wage while you learn a good skill. BAYLY rMiOFAGTHinG football fans with awide open type offense, and In all fairness to Springville, with Allen In there throwing, the Devils are capable of winning every time out. With American Fork able to move the ball through the air tomorrow's game could develop Into the most explosive of the year. Coach Crittenden's team did, during the Tiger game, show signs of making the running game go, with Dennis Gauger always good, and Juniors Dennis Parker and Gil Anderson starting to mature ma-ture the Cavemen should defeat the Devils. A. F, excaped any serious injuries in-juries against Orem and with the "meat" of the schedule behind be-hind them the Cavemen figure to roll from here on. With only Span ish Fork unbeated in league play, all teams stand pretty good in the standings. Spanish Fork defeated Carbon 22-14, while Provo and Payson battled to a six all tie, and Lehi romped easily over Uintah 34-6. Span. Fork is 3-0, Orem 2-1, Provo 1-1-1, A. F., Springville, and Carbon 1-2 in Class AA. So with two teams, from this re gion aualifing for playoffs, all teams remain in the "running.' Payson leads Lehl by half a game in Class A play with also two teams going to playoffs from region four. Liitle League Football Results Second round of Little League football produced the following results: Browns-Eagles First game action saw the defending champions of the league, lea-gue, the Am. Fork Browns, lose their first game of the year. The Eagles of PI. Grove had Wayne Allred and Kraig Higgln-son Higgln-son score touchdowns and the Eagle defense scored a safety as the Eagles won 15-0. The Browns of Coac Jim Cunningham Cun-ningham did not play one of their best games, however several Browns played exceptionally well. They were Sandy Nicholes, Reed Dean, Hylee Evans, Jeff Eastman and Steve Murdock. The Browns will get tougher. Bears-Packers Second game of the day was hard played with the A. F. Bears winning a hard fought battle over the Lehi Packer 18-13. Steve Thompson, a shifty tailback tail-back for the Packers went off tackle for a 26 yard gain to set up the game's first t.d. Thompson Thomp-son again on a slant scored as the Packers broke out in front 6-0. The Bears soon knotted the score when John Varney the Bear quarterback tossed toMaxStras-burg toMaxStras-burg and Max latteralled to David 350 WEST CENTER PLEASANT GROinS, UTAH i J ? ; it irtr in ,f,-.A ,.,H Lewis on the old hook and trailer trail-er play for a 55 yard scoring play. Late In the second period swift John Price went off tackle and raced Into the end zone for a t.d. only to have the play called back or else the Packers would have had a lead. Moments later on and end around pass play, end Max Strasburg lofted a strike to Craig Wing and Wing scampered scamper-ed 24 yards with the Bears go-ahead go-ahead t.d. The Bears, with Joe Chlpman a dandy runner going the damage scored from 11 yards out to give the Bears an 18-6 lead. Then the Packers scored late In the game to make the final read 18-13, In a well played game. For the losing Packers the play of David Dorton, King Fowler, Bill McKinney, Jay Klrkham, and Kent Broadhead was very good. Bear players that made fine plays were Kirk Shipley, Scott Brady, Lynn Reese, Jack Young and Mark Hales. Colts-Giants Another bruising game pitted the A. F. Colts against the Lehi Giants with the Colts on top at the gun 18-12. Lehi behind a sustained drive scored first with fullback Mike Jones going in for the t.d. from the one yard line. The PAT failed fail-ed but the Giants led 6-0. The game developed Into a good defensive str."ggle through the first half and not until mid-way through the third quarter tf id the teams score. Then one a beautifully beauti-fully executed play Colt quarterback, quarter-back, Kevin Bullock, threw a pass to Randy Barratt for the t.d. The key play was a strong block from David Anderson. The play covered 22 yards and a 6-6 tie. Barratt then on the end around reverse put the Colts ahead with an 18 yard scoring run and a Colt 12-6 lead as time was running out. Jim Fowler Giant q.b. then called for the hook and trailer play that worked to perfection. Fowler passed to Shane Smith who latteralled to Lynn Bridges and the game was a tie with just one minute to play. Jim Dean of the Colts took a pass from Kevin Bullock on the dead run for a 55 yard game winning score with just seconds left In this very well played game. Ray Black, Gary Peterson, Steve Ellison, Kent Harris and Randy Finn played excellent for the Giants. Sherlin Manning, Curt Holm-stead, Holm-stead, Doug Mower, Jeff Inger-soll, Inger-soll, and Steve Hardman for the winners. Jordan-Steelers Jordan ran, passed, and just about everything else as they rolled to a lopsided 40-6 win over ov-er the PL Grove Steelers In the final. Jordan was just too good everywhere every-where for the Steelers. The storv of Robinson Crusoe is based on the true story of a shipwrecked British sailor Alexander Selkirk. GOIMIIY 1 1 . " Glizcn I 9 t 1 Cits Wed t American Fork High School's "handy man," Mark Merkley, of the Football squad has been selected se-lected by the coaching staff as the "player of the week" for his efforts ef-forts against the Orem Tigers last week. Mark, the jack of all trades, on the Cavemen team has been a defensive standout at his defensive defen-sive halfback spot. On offense he is the Forker's backup quarterback. quarter-back. He returns punts, and kick-offs kick-offs to keep very busy during the games. Against the Tigers Mark played a whale of adefense making tackle after tackle as he and his Cavemen Cave-men teammates fought to stop the Oremites. On occasion Mark has also been sent in as a running tailback for Coach Tom Crittendan. Mark comes from a football family with his father, Floyd, an All-Conference performer for BYU back in 1933. Older brother Richard was selected by Coach Don Mower as one of the twenty best players he ever had at the school, and it is just natural that Mark would love football Something to Buick teSatwcCustoma-doo'-Hardtop Wtfria 124-tneh wheoltwse No available wth a 455-CutHC rx t V9 )470BucfcRivert AnH now 4) utnf inct behjved J'Uwediutonutic lrnjm(jionrc Wouldn't Spoils -BiF P Q j By John Roberts M nl Hr V m aricrp ann k t o r b Sharon, Irene, and Brenda form the cheering sections for the Merkley men in athletics. An outstanding student in classes, clas-ses, Mark maintained an A average aver-age last year and is expected to repeat this year. His favorite class is Biology Two with Arlo Shelly, class instructor, Mark v . i MARK MERKLEY, second from left, received "player of the week" honors this week for his play against the Orem Tigers. He is congratulated by his mother, Mrs. Floyd R. Merkley, at left, his father, Floyd R. Merkley and brother, Richard. the 1970 Three of 36 great new Buicks. 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XL VScomtxneo with a beaut rf u small prt o what standard. you really OA i . i T' VL would 'ike to attend Utah State University and work toward a teaching major with physical education ed-ucation and possibly become a coach. , Active in church affairs he has won his Duty to God Award and serves as Executive Vice President of Seminary. Mark Is in his third season of football, and also plays third httcg fnr thfl r ' "VOITCIl jS2Cbl2i team. He also has been on the Forkers basketball team as a forward-guard, and this all-round all-round good athlete excells in all three sports. The Merkleys are natives of Blackfoot, jdaho from where they moved to Am. Fork In 1957. Mark, an articulate young man 4f (1 ntroducine I M rather have a THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPT. 18969 expressed appreciation to the A. F. coaches for giving him the op portunity of participating In sports. Mark who improves his game with each contest said that the Provo football win and the Baseball Base-ball victory over Orem last year were his sport highlights to-date. when the Region's smaller schools defeat the big fellows. Mark who works with his brother broth-er Richard In the Little League program likes to work with the youngster" and feels strongly that this program will help A. F. footbaD in the future and he cited cit-ed the sophomore class as an ii I Bucks believe in. ..- . . Buick? example. He said of bis teammates that they were the finest, and that football foot-ball is lots of fun, if teaches boys to become men. It Is t good lesson of which he compared" o life, to accept defeat as well as victory makes men. Tomorrow at the game keep an eye ou Number 14, Mark Merkley, Merk-ley, a fine football player with a very good attitude toward the game. SATURDAY'S SCHEDULE 9:00 a.m. Jordon vs. Browns 10:15 a.m. P. G. Steelers vs. A. F. 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