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Show wwm-ip iiMMajggiffw j"Jt j vSPORIIIJG BIEra By John Roberts 3rjr v y U fi fr,f,SWr ?T M' . 1 J HARD HITTING INTERIOR LINEMEN did a great job for the Cavemen in their game against Orem. These men will bear watching in the Am. Fork-Springville game this Friday. They are 1. to r., Yard Pulley, Louis Strasburg, Paul Kitchen, Richard Greenwood and Kirk McDaniel. Am. Fork C on soot mm u 9 1 American Fork 20, Orem 0. Hard to believe? You bet, but what a win for the American Fork Cavemen in last week's big Region Re-gion Four Meeting before a crowd that completely surrounded the playing field. Orem who l.as had the Cavemen's Cave-men's number, for oh so many years finally fell to an Spired gang of footballers from A. F. Nobody, but nobody pickid A. F . in pre-season to be among the leaders, let alone the leader in Region Four football. Head coach Tom Crittenden took an inexperienced, untried, unheraled, uneverything bunch of A. F. kids and has moulded this team into the talk of the town with their determined play. Crittenden has organized his team members into a devastating, devastat-ing, pursuing gang tackling, never say quit team, and of courseTom has had such fine help in two of the hardest workers in football anywhere. They are coaches Davis Dav-is Knight and Carl Ingersoll. In-gersoll In-gersoll and Knight have put together to-gether a defense that has not let an opponent cross the goal line yet in four big games, and that is also the talk of football circles cir-cles everywhere. Heroes last week, yes, about forty of them, everybody on the team contributed to the win which must rank as one of the Cavemen's Cave-men's very biggest ever. Nobody shuts out the golden Tigers, but the Cavemen did, and zlthough Orem by far was A. F.'s toughest tough-est test to date,, they really never were able to run against the Cavemen. Only late in the game, with Orem throwing short pass es, did the Tigers get very deep into Cavemen territory. A. F. with as well an execu ted drive as seen anytime, took the opening series 80 yards for a touchdown. David Olson, A. F. tackle, working on Orem's Orrin Olsen did a job. Eruck Bowen at quar ter back called 11 plays during the drive and four of them went right at Olsen of Orem and the Cavemen picked up a first down each time. Play by play the drive went: Fox off tackle 18 yards, Fox same play 12 yards, Blake Buhler dived four yards, five yard penalty, Bowen to the air with a pass to David Durfey 20 yards on Orem's 2G, Buhler four yards on the plunge, Fox off tackle 13 yards on the nine, Fox on i sweep seven yards, Fox one yard Fox no gain, and Bowen on a roll out for the score. Kirk McDan iel was perfect on the PAT at tempt. Play continued through the sec ond and three-fourths of the way through the third period without much damage by either team until Orem elected to try for a first down on their own 42. Needing six inches, Jim Mar shall, Orem's touted tailback was given the ball but Dennis Parker stopped him in his tracks and A. F. took over. A clipping penalty pen-alty set theForkersbacktothe50 yord line. Steven Dean came into the game and on his first play passed. Bill Allen on a post pattern took the perfectly thrown ball in stride on the 30 and ran the remaining dis tance without being touched. Mc Daniel attain hit for the extra point and A. F. fans began to dream. Time was running out in the final quarter and Orem took to the air using short look-intype passes. pass-es. Orem's quarterback, Jack Christiansen, moved the Tigers downfield to the A. F. 12 and everybody felt that the Tigers woi:ld score, but once again the defense came through withSteven llpan at linebacker for A. F. He pinked the ball off with an interception. in-terception. Vard Pulley led the way slowing Orem's pursuit. aveio tiemam in rem 20- Vard at about the 20 yard line threw a final block as Dean raced rac-ed 90 or 95 yards for the game's final tally. Incidentally Steven seemed to take 35 seconds run ning that last 30 yards. Fifty-four seconds remained to be pla ed and it was only fitting that on the last play of the game, Vard Pulley, Roy Coddington and Kirk Magelby combined to tackle Christiansen for an eight yard loss. The A. F. defensive line along with the three linebackers were very good once more. It is ex tremely difficult to single out players, but I thought that Louis Strasburg, Ray Coddington, Cal vin Wimmer, Dennis Parker, Vard Pulley and of course David Olson did tremendous jobs on the Tigers. Durfey, Allen, Buhler, Bowen, Bow-en, Dean, Dean Sabey, and Fox along with the offensive line were outstanding on offense. Several players like John Sag-ers Sag-ers who was stout despite in juries, made timely tackles, Mc Daniel, Mike Shelley, Mick Rogers, Rog-ers, Gary Watkins, Paul Kitchen, Allen Alexander, Doug Richards, Marty Gray, David Spainhower, Doug Wilson and Bob Baldwin all contributed decisive plays. Coach Crittenden from the first few seconds of the game, just could not relax, and I'm sure that even though his players expended ex-pended tremendous amounts of energy none worked as hard as Tom did. He relaxed with about two seconds left to go. Actually in the dressing room the team was rather subdued after af-ter the game, but it was a stirring stir-ring scene as the team gathered around Coach Crittenden and sang the school song. Coach Crittenden said the "game ball" will be added to the school's trophy case as a reminder re-minder of the fine victory. Crittenden in his second yar as head, was jubilant with the win, and a reason for the subdued atmosphere following the game was when he reminded his team of the tough schedule still ahead for the Cavemen. With wins over two of the big teams in the league lea-gue in Orem and Provo, I'm sure fans will call the season a success regardless of the next game's outcome. Orem a ranked team statewide on paper, made a good sowing and the Tigers are a big and fearsome looking bunch with Orrin Or-rin Olsen, Neal Workman at 220 and 240 pounds on the line. They also have one of the very best runners in Jim Marshall anchoring anchor-ing their defense and offense. Orem coach, Charlie Dine said it all when he said after the game, speaking of the Cavemen, "They are a very good team, they beat the H--1 out of us, they had too much speed." Statistics showed Orem with a little edge as they rolled up 12 first downs to A. F.'s seven. In total yards A. F. had an even 200 while the Tigers had 211, but Jn pursuit and tackling where it really counted A. F, was far ahead. Many times five and -"1a A. F. players were in on the stops, and on a couple of occasions oc-casions ter. were there. Kim Fox was the leading ground gainer with 64 yards in 13 trys, and Dean's return was the longest long-est play of the season for A. F. Marshall has held very well, his longest run was eight yards, and he picked up 48 yards in total gains with 13 attempts. American Fork fans have to go back to 1961 since an A. F. team has beaten an Orem team. That year A. F, featured Jerry Edwards, Merlin Driggs, Mar-lin Mar-lin McKinney, Gerald Conder, Tom Dimminck and others of that era. Put it aU together and it comes up as a big, big win and to a Cavemen club that really does not have a single standout, but an eleven man team working to-gether. to-gether. With personal glory thrown out and pride taking over, its a good combination. Tomorrow A. F. fets another tough test, with the tables turned on them. Now its every team out to knock off the Cavemen. This time it is Springville in their Homecoming game, which always gets a team up high. Springville downed Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove 30-12 last week to show that they can move the ball, and foUowing A. F.'s big win it might be only natural to let up this week. Therein lies a story, it will be an unexpected club like Springville to knock off the front runners, and unless the Cavemen set out to do another good job they just might come home a loser. los-er. It has happened before. The game originally set for a night game has been scheduled for a 3 p.m. start. Springville downed A. F last year here, and at home this time look for an offensive game. The Devils like to throw the baU. It shapes up as a good game to see. League standings has A. F. with the only unblemished record at 4-0. Payson and Spanish Fork are 3-0-1; Provo and Orem are 2-1-1; Lehi 2-2; SpringviUe and PL Grove 1-3; Carbon and Uintah Uin-tah are 0-4. In addition to A. F." and Springville, tomorrow's schedule has a biggy in Payson at Orem, Provo at Lehi, P. G. at Sp. Fork, and Uintah at Carbon. In the remaining schedule for the Cavemen they have Spanish Fork here in A. F.'s homecoming, homecom-ing, Pleasant Grove, Carbon, and Payson, and as cf now the Cavemen Cave-men are standing very weU in regards re-gards to a playoff berth as two clubs go from this region in the "AA" schools. SpringviUe' s football field is located at 1205 East 9th South. Take the second off ramp on the freeway and go due East til you come to their new field. Starting Start-ing time is 3 p.m. Cavemen Sophs Remain Unbeaten; Down Orem 27-0 Coach Don Mower has again moulded a potent group o sophomore soph-omore football players into quite a confident bunch. The young Cavemen with all of the team playing good baU held the Orem team well in check. While the A. F. offense scored twice in each half to send A. F. sophs to their third convincing win, the score 27-0. With wins over Provo, Lehi and Orem the sophs are in a comfortable com-fortable position for another unbeaten un-beaten year, and at long last Orem's domination over Region Four teams appear to be nearing an end. They have lost twice this yoar in soph ball and A. F. won last year as well. John Varney fielded a punt on the A. F. 48 and slipped down the sidelines for A. F.'s first touchdown. touch-down. In the second period of play Mark Fowler skirted left end with Paul Sogers throwing a key block for the sophs second score and a 12-0 halftime lead. A scoreless third quarter ensued en-sued but the Cave kids got going in the final period to score twice more. A long drive was finished as Varney on a sneek from the one yard mark made the third LOUIS STRASBURG, American father and mother, Mr. and Louis Strasburg Named Player of Week "Player of the Week" goes to the "heart" of the American Fork defense topickLouisStras-burg. topickLouisStras-burg. Louis, co-captain of the Cavemen with teammate Ray Coddington, calls the defensive sets and leads a charging defense de-fense in pursuit of the Cavemen's opponents which has seen all four go scoreless to date. Louis, one of the "ironmen" on the Cavemen team, goes both ways, offense and defense, as he is a pulling guard on the offensive offen-sive team, and in four sames has missed a couple of plays. He sat out a few against Uintah, a couple against Lehi, none at Provo and one or two plays against Orem. Louis's biggest complaint is that he can not make enoughtack-les enoughtack-les because his teammates up front, composed of Vard Pulley, Bill Allen, Coddington, David Olson, Ol-son, Calvin Wimmer, and Gary Watkins are so good, they beat him to the tackle and he is very complimentary when he talks about these big men up front, Lou says they are the very best. Louis has a deep love of foot- baU and played Little League with the "Rams" wherehe learn ed some of the basics and has developed into quite a leadar of the Cavemen. He has not call ed very many wrong defenses in these last few games, and he aid that the interception was set up by the defense because Orem kept throwing the same pass, a flat pass out into the flat, and Stevea Dean played it perfectly. Louis, a son of David and Melba Strasburg also is a mem ber of the Cavemen wrestling team and he competes in the 155 pound weight, but he weighs 165 now and may have to move up a notch this year. He is about five foot eight inches tall, and very t.d., and tackle Tim Hall booted the PAT. Coach Mower cleared the bench and the second unit with Kevin Bullock at the controls drove the sophs downfield until BuUock hit Jack Young in the end zone from 12 yards out. Bullock threw to Young for the two point conversion, conver-sion, and Young made a spectacular spec-tacular catch, a one hander from way off target really, but Young made it look easy. Up front for A. F. several of the players stood out with their play, Tim Hall a giant on defense, de-fense, Paul Sagers many hard hitting tackles, Sherlin Manning excellent center, Jim Dean at defensive de-fensive end a couple of big minus yards when he got the quarterback. quarter-back. Hy Lee Evans is developing develop-ing into a very good runner, and of course many, many others did a job. ! Today A. F. will tangle with the Springville team of! the Cavemen's field and again the game will get under way around 4 p.m. and if you haven't seen the sophs play yet, take time and go up and watch them. They surely could use the fans support. Coaches Paul Kitchen and Mark Farrer are aiding Coach Mower as assistants. Roseate spoonbills are almost three-feet long. Aphids that infest flowers are often referred to as the ant's milk cows. rtv-v'-,,1 .-.,.y- : Cjl OGDEN 1940 Wall Avenue Phone 399-tin LOGAN Walker Bank Building Phone 752 6310 k j Fork Citizens "Player of the Week" is congratulated by his Mrs. David Strasburg. Louis is co-captain of the Cavemen team. mobile afoot he does very well in both sports. Near a straight A student in his school work, Lou said he loves all his studies and could not choose a favorite. Active in Church he holds the Duty to God award being a priest in the Highland Ward. Following high school Louis wiU attend a major college and has hopes of a Business Management Manage-ment career, also there is a mission mis-sion for his church after graduation. gradua-tion. He is presently serving as Executive Secretary of the Youth Council in his ward, and as you would expect aH of Highland roots for Lou during the games, and among his biggest rooters are his sisters, Mary, Melba, and Louise. Lou-ise. He has a big brother Ronnie who lives in Murray that also cheers for him. Lou, one of Am. Fork's most dedicated players, felt that Orem did not expect the Cavemen to be so tough, and he said that A. F. wanted this one real bad and he felt like that was the big difference. dif-ference. He said it sure feels great to be first in Region play and it is a challenge that he and his teammates accept and relish, adding it is sure fun to be on top. Very articulate Louis was high in his statements about the A. F. coaching staff, but the A. F. coaches were very high about young Mr. Strasburg' s play. Steady, excellent head, strong, great desire and other things were added by his coaches. Louis rather small as a mid dle linebacker makes up for this by his speed and ability to spot the plays when they break and he has been a tremendous performer perform-er aH season long. Team spirit, desire, dedica tion, ability were some of his words in describing the Fork- ers success todate. He said the players have all done a good job. Springville, theCavemen's next opponent will be very hard to beat said Louis but he be lieves that the Cavemen will win if they continue to play the kind of ball that they can, and he thinks that the Cavemen will. SALT LAKE I SO I Redwood Road Phone 484 7638 PROVO IS JO Springville Road Phone 373-6670 1 1 ill w i o ' if - MILK Pl.ll- I- " I HIIITOU .1 II- UN L.t - II- U 4 ft P. G. Teams Lead In Little League Football Action Little League action continued last week with a fuU slate of games. Both Pleasant Grove teams, the Steelers and Eagles, added wins and lead the race as S I ; rr-- ?f r.rr J? 4 . - -"- ' I - i' vJ v-j. --- rf;,, ' Y . 4, it J N. ' III I 1JI-- -A. r ii r iY . J . ... .. . ?rttj.M MARK FARRER- American Fork High School teacher, center is presented with six year old cupcake by Jan Holmstead, current cheerleader at left, and Geraldine Inouye, one of the cheerleaders cheer-leaders in 1964, at right. h "three W U) Reductions up to 20 off Free mounting of every new tire Free valve stems Also reduced prices on automotive accessories. Thursday - Friday - Saturday September 24, 25, and 26 0IILY DON'T MISS THESE FALL SPECIALS at your I FA Center IFA where you always get the best VALUE for your money. Everyone is welcome. THE AMERICAN FGRK CITIZEN, Mark Farrer Eats Six Cup Cake After Am. FootbaU enthusiasts at American Amer-ican Fork High School very nearly near-ly proved that you can have your cake and eat it too provided you don't mind munching on a six year old cupcake. Even if you managed to devour de-vour some, the odds are pretty good there would be some left. In 1964 Mark Farrer, American Ameri-can Fork High Schoolteacher and athletic staff member, received a cupcake from cheerleaders Ger- of now, with four and three wins to their credit. However the Colts from A. F. are close behind with only one loss and the League race will become tighter as the teams enter the second half of play. This week's schedule for Saturday, Sat-urday, September 26, with all gamos to be played at the City Park. 9:00 a.m. A. F. Bears vs. A.F. Colts 10:30 a.m.A. F. Redskins vs. P. G. Eagles 12 noonLehi Packers vs. Lehi Giants Steelers bye Oil from hazelnuts is used as a perfume base. INTERMOUNTAIN 28 North 1st West THURSDAY, SEPT. 24. 1970 - Year - Old Fork Beats Orem aldine Inouye, Mary Anne Dur-rant, Dur-rant, Lorelei Priday, Betty Lu Boren, liana Hutchings and Shari Nielsen as did all football team members and coaches. Farrer and the team members were presented the cupcakes prior to the American Fork-Orem Fork-Orem game that year. The following Monday after tht-game tht-game Farrer was asked why he didn't eat his cupcake. He re plied, "Because we didn't besu. Orem." Well, the cupcake was saved and Monday Farrer finaUy ate it after American Fork defeated de-feated Orem, 20-0, last Friday. This was the first time since then that the Cavemen have defeated de-feated the Tigers. a special assembly was caUed Monday under the direction of current cheerleaders Jan Holm-stead, Holm-stead, Lori Holmstead, Vickie Beighley, Arlene Smith, Glenda Greenwood and Mary Jo Barratt. A table was placed in the center cen-ter of the gymnasium floor and the cupcake old, dry and hard was eaten by Farrer as the stu-dentbody stu-dentbody watched. The 1964 cheerleaders, who gave Farrer the cupcake orig-inaUy, orig-inaUy, were also present Monday. Mon-day. FARMERS American Fork |